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Reviews for Keep pinned tabs alive

Keep pinned tabs alive by Tiddo Langerak

4.6 Stars out of 5
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Review by Dan
by Dan, a year ago
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10 reviews
  • by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 8 days ago
  • by Ben, 7 months ago
    There's an issue now that, when opening Firefox it will actually double up existing pinned tabs - I guess something changed in Firefox.
  • by thecoxed, 9 months ago
    Thanks! it works!
  • by dnkm, a year ago
    I created an account specifically to give you five stars. Thanks a bunch!
  • by ELLIOTTCABLE, a year ago
    This is better than the default behaviour, but unfortunately, it creates _new_ tabs for the same URLs — that is, page-state (text entered, panes opened, etc) are lost in the process. (This isn't the case in the original "Active Pinned Tabs" extension, so I'm not sure how that behaviour was lost in the process of forking ...)

    Also, note to the author — you may want to enable GitHub Issues on your fork? 😅

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hi Elliott, thanks for the feedback! The original plugin could keep tabs loaded because it moves the tabs between 2 open windows. This plugin however only moves the tabs once a window closes, at which point the tabs are already unloaded unfortunately. To be honest though, this wasn't really a use case that I ran into myself, so there might be ways around this. I'll update you if I manage to find something.

    I've also taken your suggestion and enabled issues on GH, so feel free to post anything there that you run into!
  • by Iceyer, 2 years ago
    I think the person who designed the pinned tabs to disappear with the closing window order is a complete idiot. this problem has been reported by the community for 5 years and no one has fixed it. This plugin creatively solves this problem, it's so beautiful.
  • by Lukeibol, 2 years ago
    Simply excellent
  • by Static1047, 2 years ago
    This has saved my pinned tabs multiple times, as I have a habit of dragging out a tab into it's own window and closing the original.
    There are some other addons that claim to offer something similar, but I have found it is still pretty easy to loose the tabs with them
  • by Claudiu, 2 years ago