Reviews for OneTab
OneTab by OneTab Team
Review by Firefox user 13598937
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 13598937, 7 years agoNotice for one tab users: Extensions works as intended on firefox quantum, any problem detected on my daily usage. BUT, because Mozilla switched to web extension, all tabs data is stored under AppData/Roaming/Profile folder and inside of \browser-extension-data\extension@one-tab.com folder, as a file named STORAGE.JS.
**If you are using SSD, or using this extension heavily on your pc, I ADVISE YOU TO BACKUP STORAGE FILE DAILY. Because of an unexpected power loss on my computer, I lost my all saved tabs data, and the worse thing is: Because of trim nature on SSD's, there is no way to recover the file itself.
As a future request, the developer should find a more reliable way to store tabs data, more than dumping all tab information into only 1 file, which is a great risk, especially for SSD users. Maybe, some regular backups or twin file system can be implemented on the extension (Take these as example, there must be more reliable ways).
Anyway, I wrote this review with the hurt of my lost data and FOR TL, DR's: I advise you to back up this extension data regularly with external tools.
**If you are using SSD, or using this extension heavily on your pc, I ADVISE YOU TO BACKUP STORAGE FILE DAILY. Because of an unexpected power loss on my computer, I lost my all saved tabs data, and the worse thing is: Because of trim nature on SSD's, there is no way to recover the file itself.
As a future request, the developer should find a more reliable way to store tabs data, more than dumping all tab information into only 1 file, which is a great risk, especially for SSD users. Maybe, some regular backups or twin file system can be implemented on the extension (Take these as example, there must be more reliable ways).
Anyway, I wrote this review with the hurt of my lost data and FOR TL, DR's: I advise you to back up this extension data regularly with external tools.
2,462 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18602700, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HT, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18568312, 9 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18114953, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andry, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by flatmind, a month agoGreat idea, would've used it if not for one HUGE deal-breaker: The forward-backward-history of each saved/closed tab is lost, which is essential to me. If this gets ever fixed, I'll gladly use it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18581888, a month agomacht, was es soll, nie Probleme gehabt, sehr hilfreich
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sashi, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14038255, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18564895, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Prashant, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ms, a month agoUnbelievable. It's so convenient and simple. This is my salvation. Why didn't firefox do this by default, like in edge?
- Rated 4 out of 5by Txgirl, 2 months agoFor what it is I love this app. The problem is if something happens to your browser or computer it does NOT save your old tabs. I have tabs that are pretty old, tabs saved for Photoshop, for my daughter's college life, etc. We recently had to upgrade to Windows 11 and it fubared to H*ll and back my computer. I could not even get the computer to open...at all. So, my genius husband got me a fix going and of course I had to download One Tab, and everything is gone and I need those tabs. ONE TAB TEAM help me. Is there anything I can do? Do I need to look for another tab saver that gives me a backup option? Unless you have one that I am not aware of hidden somewhere.
EDIT... After posting the above I went to look at OneTab on my browser. I saw the import/export button and as luck would have it my husband checked the old computer which still had my OneTab list. So he imported it to me and I do have my tabs back. I am so happy! Still leaving at 4 stars because I think I just got lucky. I wish there was a better, reminders maybe, way to not loose our tabs. - Rated 5 out of 5by MY AMERICA INC, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18556426, 2 months agoADD-ON IS BROKEN!
Lost my tabs two times in a row now.. - Rated 5 out of 5by Maxyolotubepl, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jaguar_pawl, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14564870, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by postino, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18553257, 2 months agoThis is a very useful add-on, although I do wish it supported saving data urls rather than deleting their respective tabs.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Belphie, 2 months ago