Reviews for Tab Session Manager
Tab Session Manager by sienori
Review by SedUz
Rated 3 out of 5
by SedUz, a year agoI would give this extension 1 star, but I can't. Because this is the only one extension, which works for saving and restoring sessions for Firefox. There is no alternative.
I can't give 5 stars however, because extension is very buggy and looks like not even tested by developer properly.
Obvious issues are:
1) If you move tabs between windows - then session tracking gets screwed up Tab Session Manager cannot save this session anymore. Nothing helps. I tried disable/enable back extension. I tried remove extension from Firefox and re-install it back. Nothing helps. Moving tabs between windows is Firefox core functionality. Also its possible to move tabs between private windows. This makes it impossible to organize tabs across multiple windows when using Tab Session Manager.
2) Tab Session Manager export-import extension settings - doesn't work properly. After you import settings you notice that many options are not respected by export and do not restore back. A lot to list them all, but for sure I remember: theme, auto-save intervals, backup and other options.
3) Keyboard shortcuts for saving sessions - do not work at all. No matter which key combination, I tried everything. Only one shortcut works - open extension menu drop down.
4) Bug in intervals. If you set interval to 60 minutes - nothing gets saved every hour. I had to set to 50 minutes because of this.
5) If tracking is screwed up because any unknown reason - then it's impossible to reload extension and re-capture current session and it will always fail to save current session.
But what really works great is regular popup that asks about donations.
I would happily donate, but currently I am not aware if developer cares at all about above mentioned issues, whether those will get fixed.
I can't give 5 stars however, because extension is very buggy and looks like not even tested by developer properly.
Obvious issues are:
1) If you move tabs between windows - then session tracking gets screwed up Tab Session Manager cannot save this session anymore. Nothing helps. I tried disable/enable back extension. I tried remove extension from Firefox and re-install it back. Nothing helps. Moving tabs between windows is Firefox core functionality. Also its possible to move tabs between private windows. This makes it impossible to organize tabs across multiple windows when using Tab Session Manager.
2) Tab Session Manager export-import extension settings - doesn't work properly. After you import settings you notice that many options are not respected by export and do not restore back. A lot to list them all, but for sure I remember: theme, auto-save intervals, backup and other options.
3) Keyboard shortcuts for saving sessions - do not work at all. No matter which key combination, I tried everything. Only one shortcut works - open extension menu drop down.
4) Bug in intervals. If you set interval to 60 minutes - nothing gets saved every hour. I had to set to 50 minutes because of this.
5) If tracking is screwed up because any unknown reason - then it's impossible to reload extension and re-capture current session and it will always fail to save current session.
But what really works great is regular popup that asks about donations.
I would happily donate, but currently I am not aware if developer cares at all about above mentioned issues, whether those will get fixed.
1,188 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12598512, 4 days agoEs öffnet die Tabs doppelt. Duplicates the saved windows and doubles up on my memory usage. Ich habe gewartet ob es ein Update gibt, aber als letztes Update steht 28.03.2025
- Rated 4 out of 5by vee, 8 days agoThe delete button is very close to open button and because of that, some time I clicked on wrong button to delete instead of open. It would be better if you add confirm dialog before do delete the session (even you already had undo but it will be better to ask for confirmation on delete).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ruvvy, 8 days agoI had around 500 tabs open that failed to get restored beyond the first 10 when I shut Firefox down, which hadn't happened before. This extension brought them all back which saved me quite the headache. Of course, it couldn't bring back the groups from Tree Style Tab, but it was unrealistic to expect it to save another extension's data.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ok, 11 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by ninjatendo, 12 days ago"Support tab groups" is false advertising -- or it's only true insofar as it will save the tabs /within/ tab groups just fine, as long as you didn't actually want to /keep/ those tab groups
- Rated 5 out of 5by Entroper, 17 days agoover 5k tabs recovered from a saved file. could be improved but saved me big time
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14265282, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aap1Monkey1, a month agoFor years now Firefox session restore only puts the first window at the same position, the feature to let Tab Session Manager do this is golden as windows are now always restored in the same order. The easy access to auto session backups also golden. Together with Winger extension to stash windows, finally an upgraded browse experience which works nice and safe for 1000's of tabs over a 100 windows ; ))
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by curiosity, a month agoWhile it's come a long way since its inception (I switched to this after a feature-rich and reliable session manager that I used was discontinued after Firefox's engine overhaul), it still seems to act up sometimes with too many tabs open.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18448091, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Tetsuya Tsurugi, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jackie Daytona, a month agoCurrently, this add-on just duplicates the saved windows I had open and doubles up on my memory usage. It doesn't seem like this is needed anymore with Firefox's native support.
- Rated 1 out of 5by aedgsegsfvw, 2 months agoWARNING!!!!! If you have more than 10 tabs open, this will overload the extension. As a self-defence mechanism, the extension deletes the saved session.
It cannot import a saved session containing more than 10 tabs. - Rated 5 out of 5by senoa, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Harry Btor, 2 months agoIn the case of tab groups, this add-on does not preserve original tabs grouping while importing a session: it imports all tabs uniformly, i.e. without any tab grouping. Dear developers, please, correct this fault. P.S. Yet pinned non-grouped tabs are imported correctly (as pinned).
- Rated 5 out of 5by たやまみ, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12553124, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lebelon91, 3 months agoWorked great for a long time, but in the last month or so, the "autosave sessions" feature hasn't worked at all. I've checked my sessions to try to find windows/tabs I wanted to go back to, and the last thing saved was over a month ago even though I know I had Firefox at least set to restore previous windows. But this extension didn't save ANYTHING over the last month+ even though I had it set to do so, so that feature doesn't do anything anymore apparently. I've lost dozens of sessions due to either a bug or recent updates, but either way this is bullshit.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 19476834, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by blrr_fce76, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19069106, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18929604, 3 months agoI can't figure out if sessions are tied to virtual desktops when they are saved and is it really important to me
- Rated 5 out of 5by Remodor, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ShinuToki, 3 months ago