Reviews for Tab Wrangler
Tab Wrangler by tabwrangler
5 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by CodeIcannot, a year agoThis is an interesting add-on, that sounds good 'on paper', but has some issues, too. Its functionality is great - you can set up rules by which to auto-close tabs, and also revive them from a backlog, if need be.
However, the user-interface is really clunky, and the add-on comes with really weird default rules. You are more than likely to wipe out ALL your tabs (without warning!) before you figure out how to correctly setup everything. For this reason, I would only recommend trying this out on a completely "blank" browser.
I wish someone would pick up this project and truly make it shine, because at its core, it does a good job.Developer response
posted a year ago(developer here) Thank you for the feedback. v7 increases the default saved tabs to 1,000. I will continue to look at initial install experience. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15184708, 2 years agoA very nice addon, BUT: it installs enabled and can f your session up. Should install disabled and let you play with the settings before doing anything.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ite Ego, 2 years agoImmediate impression isn't great at all -- I had over 800 tabs open, and as soon as I installed this, it immediately closed nearly everything, due to the unfortunate default settings (mere 20 minutes timeout, 5 open tabs).
Instant regret.
The extension should obviously start off *Disabled/Paused*, prompt/wait for the user to configure their own settings and enable the extension, before it starts closing any tabs.
(And no, having to re-open hundreds of tabs from the "Corral" is not the same thing.
For one, the tabs don't get restored in the original order.
For another, I have to re-login to a great many sites, demanding attention. All these tabs have also become active, now demanding resources.
For another -- as far as I can tell, the Corral only holds the last 100 tabs closed, because that was the extension's unfortunate default -- the remaining 700+ tabs I had open are just lost.)Developer response
posted a year agoThank you for the feedback. v7 increases the stored # of tabs to 1,000. I will increase defaults across the board so the installation experience is better. - Rated 3 out of 5by paulkoan, 3 years agoI prefer my tabs to auto-close after a week. so 10000 minutes. However it looks like TW doesn't track timers across browser reloads.
- Rated 3 out of 5by spongeyperson, 7 years agoI love this extension, same as love this on Chrome. But there's one main issue i have with the firefox version. When watching fullscreen youtube videos, when the extension decides to close a tab, it takes you out of fullscreen, and this can be incredibly annoying especially when a bunch of tabs close all at once.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for the review. There's now an associated bug on the GitHub project; I will see if I can figure out how to fix this: https://github.com/tabwrangler/tabwrangler/issues/236