Reviews for Tab Counter Plus
Tab Counter Plus by Oriol Brufau
Review by Firefox user 14269091
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 14269091, 7 years agoEDIT: It appears the review was submitted before I had finished writing it. So I've deleted my original review and am re-posting it.
Unfortunately, there's less functionality than Michael Kraft's original. I vastly prefer this compared to the replacement suggested by Firefox, and I do enjoy the ability to click on the counter to view the total number of open tabs.
What this add-on does, it does well. However, providing font customisation would make it a perfect 5 star add-on. I rather liked using a bold text number to display the number of tabs but that's not possible with this add on. Some basic font customisation would be nice.
It's also a shame that the size of the text becomes very small when the number of open tabs increases to 3 or more digits, but I expect this is a limitation caused by Firefox (I think all toolbar icons must be the same size) so I haven't deducted a star for this. Still, it would be nice if you could find a workaround.
Regardless, thank you for taking your time to write this extension. Even if you're unable to include font customisation, it's still vastly better than not having a tab counter. Its funny how much you miss the little things in life when they're taken away from you!
EDIT #2: Thanks for getting back to me! It looks like you've basically done all you can within the limitations set by WebExtensions so I've upgraded the review to 5 stars. Hopefully font customisation works out, but I won't hold my breath as I'm not sure if you'll be able to do much within the 16 pixels available.
Unfortunately, there's less functionality than Michael Kraft's original. I vastly prefer this compared to the replacement suggested by Firefox, and I do enjoy the ability to click on the counter to view the total number of open tabs.
What this add-on does, it does well. However, providing font customisation would make it a perfect 5 star add-on. I rather liked using a bold text number to display the number of tabs but that's not possible with this add on. Some basic font customisation would be nice.
It's also a shame that the size of the text becomes very small when the number of open tabs increases to 3 or more digits, but I expect this is a limitation caused by Firefox (I think all toolbar icons must be the same size) so I haven't deducted a star for this. Still, it would be nice if you could find a workaround.
Regardless, thank you for taking your time to write this extension. Even if you're unable to include font customisation, it's still vastly better than not having a tab counter. Its funny how much you miss the little things in life when they're taken away from you!
EDIT #2: Thanks for getting back to me! It looks like you've basically done all you can within the limitations set by WebExtensions so I've upgraded the review to 5 stars. Hopefully font customisation works out, but I won't hold my breath as I'm not sure if you'll be able to do much within the 16 pixels available.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your feedback!
Effectively, WebExtension APIs provide no way to increase the size of the icon. I only have 16 pixels, that's a bit too few for 3 digits, and totally insufficient for more digits.
I will consider adding some font customization, tracked in https://github.com/Loirooriol/tab-counter-plus/issues/13
Effectively, WebExtension APIs provide no way to increase the size of the icon. I only have 16 pixels, that's a bit too few for 3 digits, and totally insufficient for more digits.
I will consider adding some font customization, tracked in https://github.com/Loirooriol/tab-counter-plus/issues/13
53 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14660260, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MattiasEh, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ovsyanka, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by alex-che, a year agoWorks fine and according to its own description is highly optimized. But the font size is pretty small and not customizable. E.g. Tab Counter Icon is much better in this regard.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Shajirr, a year agoWorks, but the number is way too small where there are > 1000 tabs, and there is no way to increase it, despite the large amount of empty wasted space around it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by xkr47, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alexander, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by PersonPerson24, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12095046, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11278032, 2 years agoDoes what it's supposed to do and nothing more. Neat.
- Rated 5 out of 5by xe4wv0, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by R.K. Devere, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Robin Li, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by xarblu, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bunny, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ScienceDiscoverer, 3 years agoSuper useful for us, tab hoarders with 250+ tabs opened... This is kind of sad, but this extension is not to blame!. I recommend moving it from the address bar level to tabs strip and disabling it vis userChrome.css when you have non-overflown tabs!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dimar, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bianca, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ax, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12648956, 3 years agoCool little helper. Informs me with the exact number of tabs open. THIS is what I wanted.
An improvement would be if I could define a number for alert notification. (even wording I enter :)
example: 20+ Hello, 40+ WaytoGo!, 60+ Caution!, 80+ Nuts!
I am at 108 right now, I need to come down. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14019718, 4 years agoWorks as expected and the best tab counting add-ons I tried out