Recensioni per Tab Stash
Tab Stash di Josh Berry
Recensione di Utente Firefox 15240182
Valutata 4 su 5
di Utente Firefox 15240182, 5 anni faI want to give 5 stars but i docked one ONLY because of slight irritation with how Tab Stash comes 'out of the box' once installed. I admit, to be fair, I did not read any of the help information (which is fantastic that the creator even included it in this day and age for tech) but I have been trying to see how intuitive the plugin is without guidance (the hallmark of good code/design IMO). I think that the code runs beautifully and do not anticipate any 'hiccups' occurring with the functionality of how the code works from as far as my novice understanding of webdev can comprehend. The issue lays for me with the design/placement of certain buttons. I have accidentally deleted new groups/directories because -- upon dragging the tab menu out to make bigger -- when clicking the arrow (right) for the drop down menu button. the padding (I think) is off or at least, made dissimilar from the previous point the button was located on the layout, prior, to expanding the view of the menu, thus, I make multiple clicks (i assume this may affect users with a trackball mouse more because the mouse pointer is more liable to make unwanted small/subtle movements related to the movement of the person's thumb) which are off point, then, accidently hit the scroll wheel, and bam! Kicked my frustration up a notch. becasue groups with only a single item have the red 'x' located below the groups 'open/close' arrow button; therefore, if you click to fast and uncarefully, in an expanded menu view, the the mouse is likely to hover unknowingly over the link below, right on the 'close' button and thus deletes the entire group -- the other problem, this could be mitigated by having an optional* popup menu for this "are you sure you want to delete this group?" or maybe instead of an arrow, make the entire group label, in list view, always closed until opened, by clicking the label, which is more button 'real-estate' requiring less strain on my eyes to find the small buttons which are kind of lost in the thin default font which stacks all of the links open very fast into a mess for my eyes to sort out and then find the button.
I think a large tab menu label serving as a button itself which upon clicking, expands into the shit you want to see.
but the lines throw me off too -- i understand the line is meant to be seen as an indication of separation and a heading but i expect the line to also dropdown to the bottom of the list, below the content of links. Which I guess isn't a bg problem when the list grows large but when you onlu have a one or a few items, the line distracts me momentarily, post animation.
but overall I anticipate having a lot of use out of this web tool!
thank you for your effort
-SMG
I think a large tab menu label serving as a button itself which upon clicking, expands into the shit you want to see.
but the lines throw me off too -- i understand the line is meant to be seen as an indication of separation and a heading but i expect the line to also dropdown to the bottom of the list, below the content of links. Which I guess isn't a bg problem when the list grows large but when you onlu have a one or a few items, the line distracts me momentarily, post animation.
but overall I anticipate having a lot of use out of this web tool!
thank you for your effort
-SMG
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pubblicato il 5 anni faHi, thank you for the thoughtful review! I definitely understand deleting something by mistake is frustrating. When deleting something, you should see a blue notification bubble appear at the top for a short time; clicking it will undo the deletion (or if you've done multiple deletions recently, it will take you to the deleted-items page).
I went with this approach instead of the confirmation like you suggested, because interrupting the user to ask for confirmation on every delete can be pretty obtrusive—95% of the time, the answer is "yes, I meant to do that". "Undo" gives you an easy way to fix any mistakes while still (mostly) staying out of your way.
I'll keep your other UI feedback (e.g. about the separator line and stacking up too many items) in mind for future releases. Thanks again!
I went with this approach instead of the confirmation like you suggested, because interrupting the user to ask for confirmation on every delete can be pretty obtrusive—95% of the time, the answer is "yes, I meant to do that". "Undo" gives you an easy way to fix any mistakes while still (mostly) staying out of your way.
I'll keep your other UI feedback (e.g. about the separator line and stacking up too many items) in mind for future releases. Thanks again!
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- Valutata 5 su 5di Kog, 3 giorni fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Leviii, 20 giorni faExtremely good and powerful. I am using it as complimentary add-on for in-built bookmarks system and it has already considered many possible use cases like de-duplication, close stashed/saved tabs, highlight opened tabs, and it even updates order of bookmarks if the actual tabs are re-arranged before saving! I also recommend setting this extension page as homepage so all links are neatly organized and accessible. This wouldn't be possible without this add-on, anyone used to papaly will know exactly how useful this is. Also you can import links and file structure from copied list of bookmarks.
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pubblicato il 19 giorni faI'm glad you've been finding it useful! Thanks for the review! - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 15638270, un mese fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Titus, un mese fa
- Valutata 2 su 5di Sam, un mese faIf the "Save all tabs" option is selected, empty open tabs (without an active domain) are not saved, only tabs with an active domain are saved.
Slow to save 1960 open tabs, no language available support (Italian)Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il un mese faTab Stash doesn't save blank tabs by design, though you can explicitly save them using drag-and-drop, selection, etc in the UI. The reason being, most of the time, these tabs are just clutter.
And yeah, I hear you on operations involving lots of tabs being slow—unfortunately, most of this is due to Firefox. I do try to keep Tab Stash's performance as high as it can be, but there's only so much I can do if Firefox itself is slow.
Also hear you on the language support. It's a really big effort to even get Tab Stash ready for translation into other languages, and it's been on the list for a while now. I do hope to get to it one day (and patches from others are always welcome).
Thanks for the feedback! - Great app and EXACTLY what I needed as other tab management apps couldn't deliver in terms of management, separation and stability. That being said, I would really love it if there was another way to rescan for titles and headers AFTER importing tabs from URLs. Some of them seem to have failed as I was moving them and the only option to retry the scan is just to retrieve the icons (which it already has so the button does nothing.) Unfortunately, I don't have a github account to reach out with this complaint.
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pubblicato il 2 mesi faThanks for the review! A quick hack for doing this is to open the tab that failed during the import, then click the yellow "Edit" button next to the stashed tab that appears when hovering over it, and clear out whatever title Tab Stash had given it before. Tab Stash will then pick up the title from the open tab.
Hope this helps! - The name of this extensions is not wrong, It stash's tabs. Out of all the extensions I tried (and I tried alot) this does it the best. Yes the setup is a wee bit confusing but once that was sorted I managed to get it working exactly how I wanted it too. This should be a base firefox feature, Idk why it is not already (needs to be part of firefox view).
The only one thing I would like to see (other then it being part of firefox view) is the ability to select multiple tabs in a stash and export them to a file (for sharing else where)
Edit: the dev responded and I am embarrased I missed the setting to import and export, It literally is the exact addon I was looking for. Now my firefox actualy loads fast.Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 2 mesi faI'm happy to hear it's working well for you! There is indeed an export feature, it's hiding in the "..." menu for each folder (or the main menu next to the search box). You can choose from several formats and copy/paste into the location of your choice.
Sorry to hear the setup was a bit confusing, if you'd like to chat more about it, feel free to open an issue on GitHub. And thanks for the review! - Valutata 1 su 5di Utente Firefox 19291583, 4 mesi faIt is processing tabs, one by one. So when stashing tabs it takes ages.
Firefox allocated 8GB of RAM and crashed (I have few thousands tabs opened).
It is storing "stashes" in a bookmarks which is good.
When tabs are finally stashed, then it is using about 500MB of RAM just to show a list of "stashes".Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 4 mesi faThanks for the feedback—it is true that Tab Stash currently doesn't handle thousands of OPEN tabs (in the same window) very well. However, it is known to handle large sets (tens of thousands) of STASHED tabs quite well, with minimal memory usage, and I've put quite a lot of work into making sure it stays that way.
The 500MB of RAM you're referencing is likely because you have thousands of tabs loaded in the UI from when you first stashed your open tabs—this will normally be much smaller because UI elements are created only when they need to be shown.
As for the one-by-one processing of tabs, that's unfortunately a limitation in Firefox's bookmarks API. Having lots of parallel bookmark operations running can mess up Firefox Sync and cause other problems in the bookmarks database. - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 13978806, 4 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 19188203, 5 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 15372598, 5 mesi faTab Stash is amazing. It's really useful for what it does: keeping your bookmarks organized. I’d kindly suggest an improvement—a backup system or export functionality
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pubblicato il 5 mesi faThanks for the kind words! I have good news, which is that there is already built-in export functionality. You can find it in the main menu or in the menu for any folder.
You can also use any built-in Firefox features or other bookmarking add-ons to work with the bookmarks in your stash, and Tab Stash will keep itself up to date! So feel free to use whatever bookmark backup tool works best for you. Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 5 mesi faThanks, I'm really happy you like it! A Chrome port is unfortunately very unlikely, because Tab Stash uses a lot of Firefox-specific things. Also, I am not a Chrome user, so wouldn't be able to provide good support for it. But it may happen one day, I won't say "never". :)- Be 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.Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 mesi faSo 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! - Valutata 5 su 5di STAR CRIMSON, 6 mesi fa
- Valutata 1 su 5di Utente Firefox 13313160, 6 mesi faI'm sick of this add-on, it lives its own life and constantly refuses to restore the last tabs of the session
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pubblicato il 6 mesi faAfraid 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! - Valutata 5 su 5di Aoshi Shinomori, 6 mesi faI'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!
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pubblicato il 6 mesi faYou're quite welcome! I'm glad you like it. Thanks for the review, I'm honored to be your first. :) Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 mesi faI'm really glad to hear you like it! Thanks for the review!