Review by Solemn
Rated 3 out of 5
by Solemn, 4 years agoWARNING: If you use large numbers of tabs this add-on will frequently destroy the organisational structure of the tabs you have sorted into different panels when closing and reopening a browser session, requiring you to potentially reorganise large numbers of tabs or close the affected browser windows and attempt to load a saved snapshot of them, wasting a lot of your time.
As other reviewers have already mentioned, this problem doesn't appear to be an issue if you only use small numbers of tabs.
I tried this add-on after being a long time 'Tree Tabs' user (which handles large numbers of tabs reliably) and was hoping Sidebery would be a potential replacement with more QoL features.
Unfortunately Sidebery's inability to reliably save and restore browser session tab structures with large numbers of tabs means I would not recommend this to anyone who browses with large numbers of tabs.
Hopefully this issue can be fixed as Sidebery has a lot of good things going in its favour (e.g. clean UI, snapshot save system, panel sorting, containers) however until this critical issue is fixed the user experience is frustrating and wastes their time.
As other reviewers have already mentioned, this problem doesn't appear to be an issue if you only use small numbers of tabs.
I tried this add-on after being a long time 'Tree Tabs' user (which handles large numbers of tabs reliably) and was hoping Sidebery would be a potential replacement with more QoL features.
Unfortunately Sidebery's inability to reliably save and restore browser session tab structures with large numbers of tabs means I would not recommend this to anyone who browses with large numbers of tabs.
Hopefully this issue can be fixed as Sidebery has a lot of good things going in its favour (e.g. clean UI, snapshot save system, panel sorting, containers) however until this critical issue is fixed the user experience is frustrating and wastes their time.
1,002 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13348396, 12 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by MartinThomas, 8 days agoThere is no help page, no beginners guide, nothing. It took me a lot of trial and error to do anything at all and have no idea how to get it to handle bookmarks.
I searched the web for a beginners guide but found nothing.
If I ever find such a guide, I may give it another try. - Rated 5 out of 5by Fridah, 14 days agoThe single most important usability addon Ive ever encountered! I am quite stoked that Firefox will bring Treestyles to the native Browser.
I encountered some quirks with the Addon sometimes, like after closing hundreds of Tabs that the "x" button of a tab doesnt work any longer and you got to restart the browser,
or the quirk that if you restore a previous session due to accidently closing the window, that all the temporary container tabs are sitting ducks without the tmp-container wrapped around them - the tabs than need to be relaunched in a new created tab that hosts a tmp-container.
But despite that, I never lost any tab or anything!
Great addon - and my goto on every machine since ever!
With some usercss you can even get rid of the tab-bar, which is great to save vertical space and make use of wasted pixels for website content!
I still prefer Sideberry over the native Firefox "Vertical Tab" feature: It takes less space, allows for grouping, better shows grouped tabs, allows for colors, and actually has so many settings that you will be overwhelmed at first!
Many thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17942002, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Magnuson Heavy Industries, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by elsenhell, 17 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19095559, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by chewygum, 19 days agoThe most essential and interacted with segment of my browsing experience.
- Rated 5 out of 5by deigue, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19174224, 19 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by GothicWeasel, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19134316, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by royce, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15983276, a month agoTab-Gruppen können nicht einfach gewechselt werden, somit ist es für mich nur eine Tab weitere Tab-Ansicht
- Rated 1 out of 5by Maxim, a month agoThis is not first time that after closing and opening the browser, all tabs are lost. Very unstable add-on. Not suitable for work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ogas, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 4uto3lend, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Diyvna, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tempdirz, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19023100, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by frostbyte, 2 months ago