Reviews for Session Boss
Session Boss by William Wng
132 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13873717, 7 years agoGood stuff so far. Just needs to automatically save the session upon closing the browser and automatically open the most recent session when opening the browser for 5 stars.
Edit: After using it for a little while now, I've run into a bug that I can reproduce easily. I use New Tab Tools. Open a new tab which goes to the New Tab Tools page, click on one of the pinned sites, click back to the tab next to it, go back to the new tab and it will randomly pick one of your saved tabs and reload it in this new one leaving you with two of the same tabs.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThere's no reliable way to detect a proper Firefox shutdown, like the File->Exit being clicked. The only way is to monitor tab & window closing. A user can keep closing tabs until the last to shut down Firefox. In the first case, a save at shutdown would save just a blank session. Session Boss offers an alternative to serve the same purpose. It auto-saves a session whenever there's a change to a tab's URL (throttled with a 15 seconds delay), effectively handling the need of saving at shutdown. I've added some description in the "The current backup session" section in the extension info page.
For the bug, it looks like an interaction between two apps' behaviors. I'll take a look when I get a chance. - Rated 3 out of 5by alwayslearning, 7 years agoI really like the tab selectivity and sorting functions built into the new "Session Boss" extension!
Is it possible to import sessions created by other extensions (e.g., Tab Session Manager, Session Manager, MySessions)? I'd really like to use only one of these, and have all their sessions consolidated--especially with the flexible functionality of "Session Manager".Developer response
posted 7 years agoUnless there's a standard for session data exchange, it's unlikely to import from other apps' internal data files. There is a site https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html to extract links from the old sessions files. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13852591, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hellboy., 7 years agoThanks work perfect. Going to be waiting for the data export and import to allow offline backup.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13533562, 7 years agothis extension will be a lifesaver for a lot of people that miss session manager, good job.
- Rated 5 out of 5by char101, 7 years agoGood interface, similar to the Session Buddy addon for chrome browser. One thing that I like is that we can save a session and only restore some of the tabs later.