Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
Review by nickclarkson
Rated 5 out of 5
by nickclarkson, 6 years agoI have 1 issue; auto-save doesn't appear to work for me. I have it enabled, set to every 300 seconds, but it's not saving any sessions for me. That aside, this addon still worth 5 stars, as every other addon (except the "old" Session Manager") has had real issues. I just manually save every so often now. I like how it uses bookmarks, because they're saved/synching already.
UPDATE: Hi, thanks for the quick response. The issue is a non-issue; I wrongly assumed the sessions were saved in the "Sessions" tab, but I think if I'm right, and from from reading your explanation, that's only the manually saved sessions. The auto-saved session is under the History tab. I think that's what confused me :) I see it now anyway; I just closed FF and then opened and then went to History, and the last session was there (i.e. the previousl current session). I think I was thinking it worked like other similar addons. Excellent addon, tyvm.
UPDATE: Hi, thanks for the quick response. The issue is a non-issue; I wrongly assumed the sessions were saved in the "Sessions" tab, but I think if I'm right, and from from reading your explanation, that's only the manually saved sessions. The auto-saved session is under the History tab. I think that's what confused me :) I see it now anyway; I just closed FF and then opened and then went to History, and the last session was there (i.e. the previousl current session). I think I was thinking it worked like other similar addons. Excellent addon, tyvm.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for feedback and for the nice review even though you seem to have some issues.
I'm not really sure what could be the problem in your case. I think that I quite failed to explain how the auto-saving functionality is implemented and that might create the confusion that saving is not happening. First of all: auto-saving will rewrite the same saving slot and not create a new one each 300 seconds (or whatever time you set). So after 20 minutes, you won't have 4 saving slots but actually the same one updated withing the last 5 minutes. A saving slot is actually created only you open the browser. (If you close the browser and the open it again you will find the previous session saved there and a new one called Current Session which will be used for all the saves from when you restarted the browser) As I don't really use the auto-saving feature that much (I actually disable it for myself) I probably fail to understand how it may be perceived by other user. The way I implemented felt right for me but I've seen some addons that actually keep a copy for each save point so I assume that the behavior I implemented might be unusual or not that useful for some people. I will try to provide some options to configure the auto-saving just the way each user expects it...
I'll try to provide an improved auto-saving experience (as well as better documentation) as soon as possible within the update. Thanks again.
I'm not really sure what could be the problem in your case. I think that I quite failed to explain how the auto-saving functionality is implemented and that might create the confusion that saving is not happening. First of all: auto-saving will rewrite the same saving slot and not create a new one each 300 seconds (or whatever time you set). So after 20 minutes, you won't have 4 saving slots but actually the same one updated withing the last 5 minutes. A saving slot is actually created only you open the browser. (If you close the browser and the open it again you will find the previous session saved there and a new one called Current Session which will be used for all the saves from when you restarted the browser) As I don't really use the auto-saving feature that much (I actually disable it for myself) I probably fail to understand how it may be perceived by other user. The way I implemented felt right for me but I've seen some addons that actually keep a copy for each save point so I assume that the behavior I implemented might be unusual or not that useful for some people. I will try to provide some options to configure the auto-saving just the way each user expects it...
I'll try to provide an improved auto-saving experience (as well as better documentation) as soon as possible within the update. Thanks again.