Reviews for Tab Session Manager
Tab Session Manager by sienori
Review by Michael Rabinovsky
Rated 4 out of 5
by Michael Rabinovsky, a year agoI've used this addon for many years and I honestly love it, but I found an issue that unfortunately I cannot overlook at work- it doesn't save history. If you don't need your history after closing the browser, then this is a 5-star addon. Previously, I gave it three stars because I couldn't use it at work, and rarely needed it at home. I updated it to four stars because I found a workaround. If you make sure every tab is loaded, and logged in, or gracefully logged out, and set it to not auto open the latest session, you can open every website, log in, then load your last session. Your tabs will load correctly, which usually means you don't need your history.
This is the explanation I previously wrote about my issues and the lower rating: The default Firefox session manager saves the history of every tab, which is incredibly important for me, but it also leaves me between a rock and a hard place. I have to use cloud software for work. It logs you out periodically. When you sign in, it will usually resume where you were; however, when you restart your browser, it resets the session, and after you log in, it lands you on the main page. If you have your tab history, you can navigate back to the page you were on; otherwise, you're stuck with 50 (to sometimes 200) useless tabs, and a mess trying to figure out what you were doing. On the other hand, the Firefox session manager can save only one session and is incredibly inconsistent; it's a coin flip whether it will work after a crash, and the only way to guarantee a session is saved is by killing Firefox from the task manager. If you sign out of your Windows account, restart, or your OS crashes, and you forget or are unable to kill Firefox from the task manager, you're completely screwed.
This is the explanation I previously wrote about my issues and the lower rating: The default Firefox session manager saves the history of every tab, which is incredibly important for me, but it also leaves me between a rock and a hard place. I have to use cloud software for work. It logs you out periodically. When you sign in, it will usually resume where you were; however, when you restart your browser, it resets the session, and after you log in, it lands you on the main page. If you have your tab history, you can navigate back to the page you were on; otherwise, you're stuck with 50 (to sometimes 200) useless tabs, and a mess trying to figure out what you were doing. On the other hand, the Firefox session manager can save only one session and is incredibly inconsistent; it's a coin flip whether it will work after a crash, and the only way to guarantee a session is saved is by killing Firefox from the task manager. If you sign out of your Windows account, restart, or your OS crashes, and you forget or are unable to kill Firefox from the task manager, you're completely screwed.
1,196 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Quantum, 3 days agoFirefox closed all my tabs without warning and couldn't restore them from its own session backup files, even though those files contained all my tabs. This extension helped me restore them all easily, which saved me from having to restore a large number of tabs manually, one by one.
If this extension wasn't there, I would have replaced Firefox with another browser. - Rated 1 out of 5by Ufnal, 6 days agoOnce every few months, it randomly dedices to delete all my sessions and reset my settings. Absolute trash.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19686199, 14 days agoThis extension used to be great! I donated a few times. Today I had to force restart my computer and Firefox came up with no tabs! I checked the Tab Session Manager and the last save it had was from over a year ago! I guess the auto save doesn't work any more and all the sessions I did have saved are gone. This extension is totally broken now.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15562998, 24 days agoDid not save the "tree" from "tree stile tabs", and I did make sure to have "Restore tree state of Tree Style Tab." checked.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 19661383, a month agoUnlike the session restore built into Firefox, this add-on does not retain or associate an individual tab's browsing history when a new browser session is launched. I use this quite a lot, so I may look for a different add-on which does support this.
- Rated 3 out of 5by DrWhoFan13, a month agoWould've rated it higher had the manual export setting functionality included the sessions I had saved.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dex Luther, a month agoDoesn't save tab groups. Also says it supports importing JSON files from Session Buddy, but it does no such thing. It gives me a read failed error.
- Rated 2 out of 5by firefrog, a month agoUsed to be one of my absolute favourite extensions, but since stopped working as intended. It does save my browser windows, but I can't restore them except for clicking and restoring every tab single-handedly.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paddamaster, 2 months agoIt has saved me several times when I've closed windows with at least 500 tabs that I don't want to lose this makes sure i can take my time to go through them.
Also why is this not standard with firefox? - Rated 5 out of 5by Helse_, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12598512, 2 months agoEs öffnet die Tabs doppelt. Duplicates the saved windows and doubles up on my memory usage. Ich habe gewartet ob es ein Update gibt, aber als letztes Update steht 28.03.2025
- Rated 4 out of 5by vee, 2 months agoThe delete button is very close to open button and because of that, some time I clicked on wrong button to delete instead of open. It would be better if you add confirm dialog before do delete the session (even you already had undo but it will be better to ask for confirmation on delete).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ruvvy, 2 months agoI had around 500 tabs open that failed to get restored beyond the first 10 when I shut Firefox down, which hadn't happened before. This extension brought them all back which saved me quite the headache. Of course, it couldn't bring back the groups from Tree Style Tab, but it was unrealistic to expect it to save another extension's data.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ok, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by ninjatendo, 2 months ago"Support tab groups" is false advertising -- or it's only true insofar as it will save the tabs /within/ tab groups just fine, as long as you didn't actually want to /keep/ those tab groups
- Rated 5 out of 5by Entroper, 2 months agoover 5k tabs recovered from a saved file. could be improved but saved me big time
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14265282, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aap1Monkey1, 3 months agoFor years now Firefox session restore only puts the first window at the same position, the feature to let Tab Session Manager do this is golden as windows are now always restored in the same order. The easy access to auto session backups also golden. Together with Winger extension to stash windows, finally an upgraded browse experience which works nice and safe for 1000's of tabs over a 100 windows ; ))
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by curiosity, 3 months agoWhile it's come a long way since its inception (I switched to this after a feature-rich and reliable session manager that I used was discontinued after Firefox's engine overhaul), it still seems to act up sometimes with too many tabs open.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18448091, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Tetsuya Tsurugi, 3 months ago