Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
Review by Cy "kkm" K'Nelson
Rated 5 out of 5
by Cy "kkm" K'Nelson, 2 years agoThis extension is an amazing complement to bookmarking, than you very much Josh!
I want to share my bookmarking workflow.
First of all, I am using “regular” (Ctrl+D) bookmarks for permanent or long-term bookmarks, i.e. those I'm likely to return to in months or using frequently. I'm no longer sorting my regular bookmarks by folder; instead, I'm using tags. When bookmarking a page in this way, I'm changing the default page title, for example, instead of the default “Acme Manangement LLC - Home” I type “Acme Management LLC - Contoso Gardens Condos - My HOA,” so I'm more likely to hit it when search bookmarks (Alt+D to go to navbar, type "*[space]", and you're in bookmark search mode, if you missed this FF feature—I had! Maybe tags aren't even necessary, if you name the bookmarks in a way you'll likely to hit them: add as many keywords to the title when saving.
Tab Stash, on the other hand, is an excellent Kanban-like complement to my postponed tasks, or grouping of related tab sets that I will return in a short time. There's also the pencil icon, so you may rename the page's title so it's clearer later. I also mark groups with a date, in an ISO-like shorthand like 230528, YYMMDD. I rearrange work postponed work the higher priority closer to top. Of course, plans change, some of them sink down. Once in a few months I scroll down through the stashes, and clean those that I abandoned, or restore and Ctrl-D bookmark them if I wish to keep them for a long term.
Finally, a spring cleaning is an early pass through Ctrl-H FF's own bookmark manager. I don't spend too much time thinking; delete what you know you won't need. If you hesitate for a second, leave it. This prevents accumulating tens of thousand dead bookmarks—you won't remember why you bookmarked an obscure one in 2-3 years anyway, so it gets cleaned by the above yearly “clean what you know you don't need, or have no idea why bookmarked.”
Bookmarking and stashing naturally complement one another to keep my bookmark organizing business efficient. As a bonus, stashed bookmarks show up in the bookmark "*[space]" search along with regular bookmarks, so I can pull what I still remember even without going to the Stash toolbar.
YMMV, but to me, this plugin is the second best invention po Velkopopovickém Kozlu!
I want to share my bookmarking workflow.
First of all, I am using “regular” (Ctrl+D) bookmarks for permanent or long-term bookmarks, i.e. those I'm likely to return to in months or using frequently. I'm no longer sorting my regular bookmarks by folder; instead, I'm using tags. When bookmarking a page in this way, I'm changing the default page title, for example, instead of the default “Acme Manangement LLC - Home” I type “Acme Management LLC - Contoso Gardens Condos - My HOA,” so I'm more likely to hit it when search bookmarks (Alt+D to go to navbar, type "*[space]", and you're in bookmark search mode, if you missed this FF feature—I had! Maybe tags aren't even necessary, if you name the bookmarks in a way you'll likely to hit them: add as many keywords to the title when saving.
Tab Stash, on the other hand, is an excellent Kanban-like complement to my postponed tasks, or grouping of related tab sets that I will return in a short time. There's also the pencil icon, so you may rename the page's title so it's clearer later. I also mark groups with a date, in an ISO-like shorthand like 230528, YYMMDD. I rearrange work postponed work the higher priority closer to top. Of course, plans change, some of them sink down. Once in a few months I scroll down through the stashes, and clean those that I abandoned, or restore and Ctrl-D bookmark them if I wish to keep them for a long term.
Finally, a spring cleaning is an early pass through Ctrl-H FF's own bookmark manager. I don't spend too much time thinking; delete what you know you won't need. If you hesitate for a second, leave it. This prevents accumulating tens of thousand dead bookmarks—you won't remember why you bookmarked an obscure one in 2-3 years anyway, so it gets cleaned by the above yearly “clean what you know you don't need, or have no idea why bookmarked.”
Bookmarking and stashing naturally complement one another to keep my bookmark organizing business efficient. As a bonus, stashed bookmarks show up in the bookmark "*[space]" search along with regular bookmarks, so I can pull what I still remember even without going to the Stash toolbar.
YMMV, but to me, this plugin is the second best invention po Velkopopovickém Kozlu!
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi, thanks for sharing your workflow! I love hearing about how Tab Stash fits in because it gives me good insight into what's working and what isn't. So I really appreciate you taking the time to do a detailed writeup!
One small thing to note, in case it's helpful: it's perfectly fine to move bookmarks into and out of the "Tab Stash" folder using the regular Firefox UI (or other bookmark extensions)—Tab Stash will notice this and update accordingly. So if it's easier for you, you can simply move the bookmarks that you want to keep but don't want to see in your stash, instead of unstashing and re-bookmarking them.
Hope this helps, and thanks again for your writeup and review!
One small thing to note, in case it's helpful: it's perfectly fine to move bookmarks into and out of the "Tab Stash" folder using the regular Firefox UI (or other bookmark extensions)—Tab Stash will notice this and update accordingly. So if it's easier for you, you can simply move the bookmarks that you want to keep but don't want to see in your stash, instead of unstashing and re-bookmarking them.
Hope this helps, and thanks again for your writeup and review!
545 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by frostbyte, 2 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15983276, 3 days agoFunktion ok, der Wechsel zwischen den Gruppen und die Entfernung von Tabs aus den Gruppen ist zu umständlich. Wie der Name schon sagt ist die Erweiterung zum speichern von Tabs und nur halbwegs für das Managen von Tab-Gruppen gebrauchbar
Developer response
posted a day agoNot sure I'm understanding the difficulty you're having, but if you have any suggestions for improvement, I'd be happy to hear from you on GitHub! - Rated 2 out of 5by MyFirefox, 20 days agoBe ye forewarned... do not jump right into this or any other open tab manager if you have a lot of currently opened tabs that you expect the extension to help you sort out.
My fault really, but intending to just look around, I hovered & then clicked to stash on a filtered selection. Not seeing a way to pause, cancel or undo; I could only let it run. How bad could it be?
It not only "stashed" the ~500 tabs from the filtered selection, but threw the other 3200 tabs in with. Then to my horror found that it put every single one of the 3700 tabs into "hidden tabs".
I only learned of this after a frantic race to shut down every other process & service on the machine to free up as much of the 32GB as possible, praying that Fx wouldn't crash.
It finally ended, and after wasting a bunch of time trying to find a solution, have now resolved to spending more time cleaning up the resulting mess than it would have taken without the help of the extension.
Badly needs an Undo. Badly needs Select/Unselect All on filtered lists. There's not even the ability to Tap-Space to keep selecting in a list, it's a slog of one-click-at-a-time. Badly needs a setting to only affect what is selected and don't mess with anything else.Developer response
posted 19 days agoSo if I'm reading this right, it sounds like you were expecting "Stash all tabs" to stash only the tabs matching the search. That's a fair point; I've made a note to look into this further.
I'm afraid I don't really understand the rest of your post, though, because:
- When Tab Stash hides/stashes tabs, it's not going to use any more resources than before (i.e. your memory usage will stay the same or decrease), so I don't really understand why the rush to free up memory?
- There IS a single-click "undo" for an accidental "stash all tabs", which is to simply unstash the group that was created.
- You can select multiple tabs at once by shift+clicking, just like you would in Windows Explorer or Finder. There's no need to select each tab individually. (And yes, this respects filtering, so you can select an entire list of filtered tabs with one click and one shift+click.)
Anyway, I hope this helps, and if you'd like any more help, feel free to open an issue on GitHub! - Rated 5 out of 5by STAR CRIMSON, 23 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13313160, 24 days agoI'm sick of this add-on, it lives its own life and constantly refuses to restore the last tabs of the session
Developer response
posted 21 days agoAfraid I'm not quite sure what you mean here; if you're talking about restoring tabs automatically after a browser restart, that's built-in to Firefox, and not something Tab Stash does. Otherwise, feel free to open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to chat with you further to figure out what's going on! - Rated 5 out of 5by Aoshi Shinomori, a month agoI've been a Firefox user since ver. 2 and this is my very first extension review. It's an essential complement to get your bazillion tabs back after an unexpected error or closing the wrong window. Simple and easy to use, thanks Josh!
Developer response
posted a month agoYou're quite welcome! I'm glad you like it. Thanks for the review, I'm honored to be your first. :) - Rated 5 out of 5by fizzxz, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DD, a month agoI hope I could have found this sooner! I got rid of other browsers for this. Now I can have my tabs backed up without worrying to lose them. So I can watch my content whenever I can. Totally worth it!
Developer response
posted a month agoGlad you like it! Unfortunately a Chrome port isn't likely any time soon because there are some unique Firefox capabilities that Tab Stash uses which just aren't available in Chrome. But I appreciate the interest!- Rated 5 out of 5by cehem, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BasalComet92836, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19010334, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davi, 2 months agoAmazing add-on ! I've found just what I was looking for a long time ! It's a perfect substitute for "Pocket" or "Read it later" add-ons ! And all the tabs are synchronized between devices through bookmarks sync of Firefox !
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bullfinch, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Melinda Josh, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hahn, 2 months agoAbsolutely a crazy good addon that is surely the killer feature of Firefox. I am so amazed how quickly and smoothly this addon can manage 1200+ groups and 36000+ tabs across 20 devices. It's simply unbelievable. Thank you so much for this great addon. Great softwares truly can change people's life in such a positive way.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoYou're very welcome, I'm really glad to hear Tab Stash has been helpful! I'm also happy to hear it's performing well for you; that's something I try to pay close attention to. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18997982, 2 months agoPlease add flag to create with old folder name when search is active instead of the search terms
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Instead of whatever is typed in search , i would like the option for folder names to be created as in Version 3.1.1
Search terms as folder names are too contitional , restrictive to work without affecting stash organization even more when having to manage numerous diverse tabs
The search terms can be regex , random , short , ever changing etc ; they ignore the how often a new folder is created that can be set in the addon options when the search term is changed ; selecting and chosing to create a new folder will just do the same and can lead to duplicate folders if the search terms remains the same , at least in this case the folder names with 3.1.1 format would not be identical ; now if technically speaking the search term would check not only the topmost folder in the stash root but check all top folders (not sub folders) then it would just stash in a old folder where in this case the outcome wouldn't be desired so theres no avoiding this issue
3.1.1 naming format didn't had those downsides and was simple to work withDeveloper response
posted 2 months agoI'd like to better-understand why this is causing you problems; feel free to open an issue on GitHub and we can discuss from there! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18996187, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dodmedium, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18987877, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pine, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by I'veTriedAllTheAddons, 2 months ago