Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
Review by Beka
Rated 3 out of 5
by Beka, 5 years agoJudging from my first saved session I've been using this extension for a year, and I've had no issues until recently when I deleted a couple of saved sessions. I believe this was the first time I deleted any sessions so I'm not sure if it's a new issue or not -- no basis for comparison. I give 3 stars for the year of good use I got out of this extension -- I only wish I didn't decide to clean up the list of old sessions!
After deleting a couple sessions, I'm having the following 3 issues:
1. After I deleted a session, a blank space appeared in the session list in the area it was deleted from. I couldn't click on it, it was just empty space. Upon reloading the browser the list "reshuffled" and the blanks were gone.
2. All but 4 of previously saved sessions from the past year are now blank. They appear in the list and I can click on them, but there are no links listed. Only the 4 most recent saved sessions have any links. I'm not sure when exactly I deleted the old sessions or how that may relate to these 4 that still work -- they may correlate.
3. Of the 4 sessions that still have links listed, none of them will actually restore any of them, either in the same window or a new one. The toolbar shows the button labels when I hover my mouse, but otherwise does not respond at all.
After deleting a couple sessions, I'm having the following 3 issues:
1. After I deleted a session, a blank space appeared in the session list in the area it was deleted from. I couldn't click on it, it was just empty space. Upon reloading the browser the list "reshuffled" and the blanks were gone.
2. All but 4 of previously saved sessions from the past year are now blank. They appear in the list and I can click on them, but there are no links listed. Only the 4 most recent saved sessions have any links. I'm not sure when exactly I deleted the old sessions or how that may relate to these 4 that still work -- they may correlate.
3. Of the 4 sessions that still have links listed, none of them will actually restore any of them, either in the same window or a new one. The toolbar shows the button labels when I hover my mouse, but otherwise does not respond at all.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi. Thanks for review. I will assume that you are talking about manually saved session and not the one from the auto-save tab. The only reason any blank space might appear after you delete a session is if you ordered them by something else than position.
But then... you say that everything is blank ?! But that can't happen for manually saved session because the addon never ever touch that data automatically so deleting it is out of the question.
Please if you can contact me over email I might be able to fix a solution for the problem. First, if you are talking about saved session you have constant backup of them by Firefox and you can restore everything for a few days. Second, if any bookmark was really deleted trust me... the addon is not at fault. There's simply no way the addon will ever do that under any circumstances. There's nothing like that. You either delete it or it will be forever stored into Bookmark Menu -> Session Sync folder.
Everything you manually store is in Bookmark Menu -> Session Sync folder... so if data is there... the it should be displayed in the addon as well.
If you're talking about the auto-saved session... that I can't do to much about them. But if you talk about bookmarks session... even if there by any strange reason you have an error. Reinstalling the addon will make it work without any problem because the data is there in the bookmarks and it will never be deleted randomly. Why you can't access the links... I never encounter this error and I don't actually understand why it won't be fixed if you close the panel and open it again because each time the data is requested from the bookmarks and even if there's a small error it will be fixed right after opening it again.
Like I said, if you can, please contact me over email (press the feedback button from the addon menu and you will be redirected to send an email), because I belive that the issues should be fixable. Just giving it 3 starts after using it for an year will not help anyone, not me, not probably not other people because the issues seems quite strange and there are thousands of people that constantly delete session and there's no issue like that so I assume there's something very edge case here.
But then... you say that everything is blank ?! But that can't happen for manually saved session because the addon never ever touch that data automatically so deleting it is out of the question.
Please if you can contact me over email I might be able to fix a solution for the problem. First, if you are talking about saved session you have constant backup of them by Firefox and you can restore everything for a few days. Second, if any bookmark was really deleted trust me... the addon is not at fault. There's simply no way the addon will ever do that under any circumstances. There's nothing like that. You either delete it or it will be forever stored into Bookmark Menu -> Session Sync folder.
Everything you manually store is in Bookmark Menu -> Session Sync folder... so if data is there... the it should be displayed in the addon as well.
If you're talking about the auto-saved session... that I can't do to much about them. But if you talk about bookmarks session... even if there by any strange reason you have an error. Reinstalling the addon will make it work without any problem because the data is there in the bookmarks and it will never be deleted randomly. Why you can't access the links... I never encounter this error and I don't actually understand why it won't be fixed if you close the panel and open it again because each time the data is requested from the bookmarks and even if there's a small error it will be fixed right after opening it again.
Like I said, if you can, please contact me over email (press the feedback button from the addon menu and you will be redirected to send an email), because I belive that the issues should be fixable. Just giving it 3 starts after using it for an year will not help anyone, not me, not probably not other people because the issues seems quite strange and there are thousands of people that constantly delete session and there's no issue like that so I assume there's something very edge case here.
237 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Doza_Vikadina, 20 days agoОтличное и весьма удобное дополнение, поэтому здесь нечего добавить
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 7 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jim Aldon D'Souza, a year agoI wish they would add firefox container support. I have tabs stored that are assigned to specific containers, which go haywire when restored in a new session because they get assigned to "no container" and go on a loop
- Rated 3 out of 5by rediffusion, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mostly Harmless, a year agoAlthough not updated for some time, this add-on has consistently worked for me for over 5 years. It's been my go-to research tool when using Firefox. Bookmarks are OK but fall short when trying to do some concerted research but this session manager is fantastic. It's never failed me and syncs easily between devices using Mozilla Sync. Thanks to the dev for this gem and hopefully it stays updated as Firefox progresses.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Montanagrl5, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EcksDy, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14684093, 2 years agoThis addon does what firefox sync should do. And it does even more. You can setup collections of links. Fortunately firefox sync does sync bookmarks reliably. But it fails in syncing tabs in a reliable way. Here session sync comes in as a convenient workaround.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16850052, 2 years agoLost all saved history when I encounter a PC crash.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoPlease do not use Session Sync for auto history saving. It's not something that it's guaranteed and it's even in the description of the addon on the first line with bold. It's just a feature that is most of good enough but not something that is perfect.
THIS ADDON IS NOT INTENDED FOR AUTO-SAVING OF SESSIONS!
As for saving sessions manually, those sessions are stored into bookmarks so it should be impossible to lose them unless the whole Firefox profile is broken in which case is not the addon fault. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17989927, 2 years agoI use Session Sync since 3 years now and it worked super for me, fast, reliable and neat to use. After a recent computer breakdown, at the computer store they made a new operating system installation and a minor recovery of my data. Mr.Ivanica helped me providing precious information and all the support in order to get the extension back at work again with all my sessions 100% restored.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17422724, 2 years agoExtremely useful addon. I have used this for at least 3 years.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17698144, 2 years agoGreat add-on! Pinned tabs are saved, but not restored as pinned in Firefox on Linux. It would be fantastic to be able to find duplicate tabs also! Cheers!
- Rated 3 out of 5by BryanChance, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17687656, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shodaime, 2 years agoGreat add-on. I wish there are options to change the colour or theme of the interface. Something even basic, like; light, grey and dark.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6010058, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by PeaceByJesus.net, 2 years agoSorry: I had stated that "there is no option to save a session" since I did not see one, or read that this was to be found via mouse hover over a heart icon (like "favorites"). I thought it would be in text, and maybe via right click. As a long time user of the legacy Session Manager I also assumed that this add on would auto save sessions depending on how often you wanted, and where you wanted. And restore local web pages as well.
However, the untitled heart icon does work to save that session as a bookmark, which is good though where the bookmark is saved is not an option.
And I also see via the tutorial (moz-extension://cf54e725-638a-4074-b4ae-b519e7d0f380/data/home/home.html) that Gabriel Ivanica has put a lot of work into this add on and that there are some options!
So thanks for this needed good add on, and it works for me even while using the Izheil Multi-row tabs patch.Developer response
posted 2 years agoWhat do you mean by no option to save sessions?
There's a red heart icon that has a tooltip with "Save Session".
Auto-save is not saving in bookmarks, only manual saving will do so because otherwise I would create thousands of almost useless bookmarks for users.
The addon should work as intended, but in case some other addon creates some weird incompatibility it might not, but that's something I can't fix or change. Though, there should clearly be no issues to save a certain session. - Rated 5 out of 5by asdasd asdasasd, 2 years agoExcellent!!! very few plugins are as useful as this one. I like to have many tabs open and this tool allows me to manage them in a spectacular way. Thank you very much!!!
I hope that in the future it will continue to be updated, even if they don't add more features, it should be incorporated by Firefox natively. - Rated 2 out of 5by dafFDasd, 3 years agoOK, so I have updated the review:
Lists currently open windows and tabs, clicking switches to clicked tab. But no tab delete nor search in tabs functionality. Max Pop up window size is too small. It needs to be a full page in new tab.
Does not auto save sessions.
UPDATE: The „Tab View” button opens a new page instead of a pop up. I'd rename it to something more intuitive (maybe view everything in new tab). It is possible to search the tabs there using Ctrl+g.
But despite the entry being highlighted after exiting from the search, the Enter key does not activate the tab.
Also Ctrl+Shift+V is a bad choice of hotkey. It is already universally reserved and used as „Paste without formatting”. I'd recommend opening in new tab view by default instead.
UPDATE 2: The hotkey can be changed. But the Settings popup closes every damn time I set something. It requires to reopen the stupid main pop up, then the settings pop up again and scroll down again to the last place.
Additionally the developer has not responded to the lack of close current tab/window functionality. This is the most important feature remaining.
Instead of practical functionality, this add-on includes wasteful animations without option to turn them off. They should be off by default or removed completely. It is an (annoying) anti-feature to waste time staring at unnecessary delays in workflow.Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi. I understand that you would expect something from an addon but the description states clearly that the addon is not intended for Auto-Saving of session. At the same time popup size is simply limited by Firefox, that's the maximum any developer can do, simply I can't make it bigger than that because that's and API limitation (nobody knows why just Firefox stupid decisions).
Regarding the full-page or new-tab -> those options are already available
Regarding search in tabs: yeah.. sorry that's a feature that would've been nice but was not able to implement it.
Auto-Save: There is some autosave implemented but not a full-featured like maybe other addons might have, but the whole purpose of the addon is to manually save what you need. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17455306, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SiteBuilderOne, 3 years agoExcellent add-on, highly intuitive.
The ability to dock this in to native FireFox Sidebar would be awesome (Simple Tab Groups has this option). Currently using Tab View working great - thanks!!!