Reviews for Panorama View
Panorama View by photodiode
40 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Eddie J Carswell II, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14076938, 7 years agoExtension has been working great until today. I found myself unable to close a new tab from the Panorama view and then I realized that the Panorama view didn't include two tabs I'd opened this morning. I restarted FF to see if that fixed the problem, but after restart nothing happens when I click the Panorama icon. I also tried the shortcut keys and neither Ctrl+Shift+F or Alt+W is working. I assume the extension is loaded as I'm only seeing a fraction of the 70 tabs (according to the Panorama addon page) I currently have open. I upgraded to FF 60.0.1 last week and I didn't have any issues at the time of upgrade. The browser has probably been restarted a couple times since, not counting this morning.
Despite the hiccup today I really, really love this addon.
Edit: I disabled and re-enabled the addon and that fixed the problem. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14046762, 7 years agoAmazing plugin! Made me switch to Quantum. Unfortunately was not able to import my tab groups from the legacy 'tabgroup' addon.
- Rated 4 out of 5by harrald, 7 years agoexcellent. waited so long for a replacement for the native firefox tab groups.
Plugin says keyboard shortcuts can be changed starting firefox 60. i am on 61 but can't seem to change the shortcut?
ps: the shortcut mentioned in the plugin does not work for me (ctrl+shift+f)
pss: the plugin handles pinned tabs not consistend. i got 2 tabgroups. the first one has my pinned tabs displayed as normal tabs, while the second group doesnt show them at all. i prefer the latter.Developer response
posted 7 years agoSorry about the shortcuts, I haven't had the time to add customization yet. - Rated 4 out of 5by Ronx Ronquillo , 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by thedrunkyardkeeper, 7 years agoLove this one!
Please, add the posibillity to auto-hide the "Panorama View" tab, as it is avialable in Firefox 61. (The tabis not hiding from tabs list in my FF on Debian GNU/Linux)
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/files/2018/05/attachment.cgi_.gif - Rated 4 out of 5by mihai2, 7 years agoI love panorama. The new addon needs a few fixes:
- tab thumbanils
- single click to rename groups
- shortcuts. - Rated 4 out of 5by adinas, 7 years agoFinally getting Tab Groups back. Thanks! Keep working on it and improving it. We all appreciate it
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13840518, 7 years agoWorks perfectly. This is my 3rd updated review, as the developer has been wonderfully responsive and has made some hugely useful improvements to this project. There is only 1 single issue I currently have with this add-on, which if resolved will earn this project 5 stars: For the longest time, I have thought that the "add new group" button was not working, as no matter how many times I clicked it, a new group would not appear! I discovered what was going on. New groups were appearing, but they were appearing BEHIND the groups I already had, so I couldn't see them! When I finally figured out what was going on, I had probably 100 empty groups I had to close. New groups should be brought to the front to prevent issues like this. It would also be great if the feature in the old Tab Groups app of being able to double click on empty space within the groups window would open a new group was added. Otherwise, wonderful job!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13980409, 7 years agoVery promising - looks to have a bright future. Was comparing this against the Conex add-on (a container-based solution), and quickly discovered that the two solutions do NOT co-exist nicely. This is not a fault of either tool, of course - they are both competing to do some of the same things. That said, my immediate thought that it would be awesome if these two tools DID co-operate: Conex for managing tabs between contains, and Panorama View to manage tabs WITHIN a container. Best of both worlds! Probably unlikely/impractical, but just thought I would throw it out there.
That aside, this looks to be the best non-container based TabGroups replacement out there. Keep up the great work! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13975792, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by We3, 7 years agoExcellent replacement for Tab Groups, already has most of its functionality.
Only one major problem: memory use spikes ~1.2 MB per tab in active window every time I open Panorama View (although it can be reduced with 'Mimimize memory usage' without closing Panorama View). I'm guessing it is taking screenshots of all tabs, even if they haven't been loaded or haven't changed? Can the quality be reduced perhaps?
Minor:
1. going to a pinned tab does not restore previous tab group
2. pinned tabs can be moved between groups but are always visible
3. tab groups can't be scrolled if they include too many tabs
EDIT:
4. sometimes stops working partially: new tabs are not shown in group, a closed one hasn't disappeared from the group and can't be selected or closed, possibly caused by moving tabs between windows. Once after restart I think a tab or 2 were missing, might be related
5. once I had to select each tab group once for the one I was moving to go in front of them, not behindDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoThank you!
Yeah, it is because of the screenshots. It's something I'm continuously working on. It's surprisingly hard to get right. It should only take screenshots of loaded tabs, but it does indeed do it every time you focus the panorama view tab. The ~1.2 MB spike per tab is sadly expected here because Firefox needs to store the raw screenshot for a moment before I scale it down, compress and store it. I hope I can make this better in the future.
How pinned tabs work will be redone.
I will make the group scrollable when there are a lot of tabs too.
Thank you for the feedback! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13868321, 7 years agoLooks amazing! I love the fact that it ties into tab hiding and I can add and rename groups. Instant 4-star for functionality and it was exactly what I was looking for.
I would bump this to 5 stars if it was a bit more visually appealing. Maybe options to color groups and tabs, or change the background of the Panorama View page to spice things up, but I know that functionally it's still being improved on so this really is not a major deal. I will continue to use this addon for the foreseeable future, and it's perfect to use at work. - Rated 4 out of 5by om2, 7 years agoPlease do not require the user to manually resize or move any of the groups.
If the addon is to be useful I believe is has to, by default after a single click, present all the open tabs as large as possible while at the same time not require any extra interaction.
The concept of resizable containers in the original Panorama addon did not work and you should rather abandon it - it would be much preferred if group divisions were made automatically.Developer response
posted 7 years agoI have been thinking a lot about this, even before I started coding, and it's partly why I haven't started making it yet. I agree that how the resizing worked in TabGroups was a bit weird and I would like to have a better solution. Maybe by having different view options (automatic, manual and list view)
Kind of related: https://github.com/photodiode/panorama-view/issues/1