Reviews for Session Boss
Session Boss by William Wng
129 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14595112, 6 years agoGood, but consistently seems to restore windows in the wrong order, which really messes up my workflow.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12839, 6 years agoThe most feature rich session manager for Firefox Quantum that comes closer than any other for replicating the old, brilliant-but-defunct Session Manager extension.
Missing but sorely desired is some way to synchronize sessions between Firefox instances. Other session managers do this by storing sessions in bookmarks. Session Boss does not use bookmarks.
Also highly desired is a method to export sessions in a way that can be easily imported - either as a bookmark file to use outside of the addon, or a file that can be easily imported into another instance of Session Boss.
Overall, a very good stab at providing a much-desired feature but a couple of things I would like are missing. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14563230, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sasha, 6 years agoI'll give 117 stars or even more if Session Boss supports TreeStyleTab's tree style tabs structure.
- Rated 1 out of 5by r.koegel, 6 years agoUsed to work alright during testing 10months ago, doesn't appear to work at all any more. The little window opens, and there are buttons, and there's a menu pull-down--but clicks on any of the options do absolutely nothing. I've tried removing and reinstalling the add-on, and restarting FF. Nada. Using FF 56.0 still, as I don't yet have options for all my add-ons that work with the newer FF.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoPre-Quantum Firefox 56 is too outdated and has too many issues for this extension to continue support it. Sorry. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14547810, 6 years agoit does everything other thing it says to do, but it is failing to restore previous session at startup even when I have that option ticked. please fix it
- Rated 2 out of 5by cleverusername, 6 years agoI wanted to like this addon, since it's one of the few that doesn't use bookmarks to manage sessions, and it does well when restoring sessions. It doesn't seem to handle sessions with a lot of tabs very well, though - opening the session manager popup lags really bad and freezes the whole browser, and when I had this installed I noticed a periodic lag/stutter every so often that went away after disabling it (I'm guessing this was from a session being saved). I also noticed in recent release notes that the license has been changed to a closed source one. This is an absolute no-go for me, as I don't trust addons that aren't open source. As such, I'm permanently uninstalling this from my Firefox.
- Rated 5 out of 5by grouvi, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14517629, 6 years agoIts over-complicated, but it actually works, and preserves tab order.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13639852, 6 years agoAs another user wrote, randomly it doesn't show content of some tabs in some windows. You can restore 4 windows with 3 tabs each one (for example) and some times it doesn't restore the CONTENT of two or more tabs that, however shows the site nam, but you have LOST THE URL, so reloading those tabs does nothing but erase the name of the site.
Uninstalled - Rated 1 out of 5by LCS, 6 years agoI cannot rate higher than one star if the code is not available for review in github somewhere. I would not recommend anyone use this extension with the code being available for review. From time to time there are extensions that are pulled because they contain malicious code. That's after so many users have been using them for some time. I am not saying that this extension contains any malicious code. Only that as a community we cannot ascertain whether it does or not until the source code is publicly available for review.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoI really take exception to this unfair review comment and its insinuation.
- First of all, I would encourage anyone not to use an extension if there's any doubt about it, including this one.
- Second, Mozilla has put in place a very rigorous review process to prevent malicious extensions. I went through it and it's no joke.
- Third, people underestimate how strong the new extension framework , the permission system, and the extension digital signing process Mozilla has put in place to prevent malicious attack since Firefox 57. I encourage you to look into the extension development process and see how things work.
- If people think some source code they review on Github would be the same as the extension installed on their machines, they're at best naive and at worst misleading others with a false sense of security. I really doubt their ability to do a proper security audit.
- All source code of all Firefox extensions are publicly available for review. And they are digitally signed to prevent tampering. If one has some basic knowledge about Firefox extension, one can start reviewing the code right the way.
- Github's purpose is for sharing source code and managing project development.
- I developed this extension mainly for my own use and thought others might find it useful so I shared it. I would care less about the rating. If you think a low rating would force me to put the source code on Github, you are sadly mistaken. I will never put the source code on it.
- In fact, the source used to have a GPL license. I've just changed it to closed source because of this review. Developer response
posted 6 years agoBy default Session Boss does lazy loading of tabs when restoring session, to prevent a massive reload "storm" taxing the system resources. The tabs are only really loaded when they are clicked to activate subsequently, which is consistent with Firefox's behavior when restoring a session at startup after a crash. Lazy loading can be disabled via a setting in the Preferences page. In that case, all tabs will be loaded right the way.- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13377474, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12812725, 6 years agoQuite good, but deleting scheduled and on-change bachup by user is a "must have" feature!!!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Al Biss, 6 years agoJust installed and so far it is perfect!
Was using Tab Session Manager but needed savings and backups in real time.
Kudos!
Edit:
- Discovered that sometimes, despite all tabs being there, some won't load when clicked.
- Also, would be nice to be able to change the 'save' location and choose another drive than 'C'. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12447219, 6 years agoI concur with others posting about problems with this extension. The switching content between tabs, even across multiple regular and private browsing windows, is a show stopper!!!!! This extension is unusable for that reason, even though it has some other good features. I also suspect the extension is responsible for reversing the order of tabs on Firefox startup, another very annoying problem! I might consider reinstalling the extension if these problems are fixed and the author adds the ability to delete individual tabs prior to restoring windows.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=3041078&p=14805909#p14805909 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14181363, 6 years agoI can't find a manual for instructions. How do you rename a saved session? I see some meantion of groups too. But I don't know how that's done either. Instructions would be handy about now!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14165593, 6 years agoLooks very good. Unfortunately, it does not cooperate well with TreeStyleTab addon. In particular, it does not restore the tree hierarchy. At least it leaves the tabs in the original order. :-)
- Rated 4 out of 5by ander, 6 years agoIt does the job, but the interface is a bit overwhelming. I recommend the developer take a look at the Session Buddy extension for Chrome, and see how much simple and more intuitive something like this can be.
And maybe it's just me, but I wish there were a way for it _not_ to keep lists of automatic session backups, or at least to limit them to a certain number. The only reason I'd want automatic backups is if the browser crashed and I lost a bunch of open tabs---and in that case, all I'd want to do was restore the single, most recent session. It just seems like overkill to have long lists of them whether you want them or not. Thanks! - Rated 4 out of 5by maricn, 6 years agoI already gave praise to this plugin, and I still like it, however, I'd like to report couple of things:
• [major] I'm joining other users to report that restored tabs sometimes just go to (seemingly) random URL (some other tab), and the history is lost for that tab. It is really annoying!
• [minor] Using TreeStyleTab, upon restoring session, the parent tab is transformed in a sort of an empty "folder" tab which is like a placeholder for its children tabs. I don't mind this much, but it's unusual.
• [minor] Using https://github.com/nyordanov/panorama to group tabs, the restored session will restore tabs as if they were in a single group.
Otherwise, thank you for your hard work on this extension! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12544291, 6 years agoNeeds Tab Navigation information saved into the session store, as stated is a goal. Sooner, better!
GUI needs tab maintenance feature. Says it has it, but I don't see ability to add, remove tabs from sessions. This might be due to my difficulty seeing everything in the GUI. Titlebars, toolbars are unusable because I can't click on everything.
Thank God for default Tree View! Tab Session Manager doesn't have that.
Great, great work replacing SessionManager by Kraft.
On my wishlist: SessionManager had a WYSIWYG GUI with drag-and-drop, resizing, wow can that still be done? - Rated 5 out of 5by emoticonspicuous, 6 years agoA life-saver. I especially like the ability to create a session from a list of tabs in a specific window. You can remove or add tabs and simply update the previously created session. This is going to improve my general work-flow!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13968514, 6 years agoRemenber a tab and put the in any new tab without give me possibility to reset or erase that.
- Rated 3 out of 5by SeventySevenTabs, 6 years agoIt's better than having nothing at all. And the interface is nice. But the execution lacks. I've used this for a few months now and as others have said, when it restores my tabs it appears to pull up the correct tab, but then when I click on the tab and it actually loads, it often (not always) takes me to another previously used URL. So I don't feel like I can trust it.