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Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica

4.5 Stars out of 5
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Response by Gabriel Ivanica

Developer response

posted 6 years ago
Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback. Really glad you like it.
Regarding features:
- probably I missed to add that to the feature list but drag-and-drop support for reordering tabs will definitely be implemented (as soon as the next minor release 3.1.0)

- multi-selection is a little bit more complex to implement it right now so I'm not sure if I can make it available at the same time but I definitely want that feature as well and it will be added for sure asap

- Do I plan a version for Chrome... more or less yes... but at the same time this is not really a business model for me so since I don't get anything from it I don't really intend to promote Chrome over Firefox but the other way around. Inter-browser vendor syncing (to have the same sessions on Chrome and Firefox) is definitely not possible unless a third-party sync functionality is used (like XMarks was before closing down just a few days ago). Otherwise, you will have to manually make sure you sync them or treat them as 2 completely distinct ecosystem and use each one independently. So yes... I do have plans for Chrome as well, but for the moment Firefox is my priority (and will always be because the of the community).

- Support for Firefox on mobile... well that's a little complex to do. The problem is that I have to write a complete new UI experience and even then it may not be that easy to create something useful. The good part... till I can figure out a way to add support for Android you still have all your sessions as bookmarks under Bookmark/Desktop Bookmarks/Session Sync. Not the ideal UI... but at least you have all of them.

- [text under images] No... that's not just ugly... it's definitely stupid of me for not observing it. Usually I don't do long searches and I'm not bothered by it so I might missed that case. I'll have a fix for it in the next release.

If you want to request more features or provide other details please feel free to do that on the Github development page https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync/issues or just contact me directly via email (open the help page of the addon -> top right corner you can find a feedback button with my address mail)

Again, thanks for the detailed feedback.
234 reviews
  • by HumanistAtypik, 2 months ago
  • by Lily White, 7 months ago
    Easy to use and simple
  • by Firefox user 14309829, 9 months ago
    I wish they would add firefox container support. I have tabs stored that are assigned to specific containers, which go haywire when restored in a new session because they get assigned to "no container" and go on a loop
  • by rediffusion, 9 months ago
  • by Mostly Harmless, 10 months ago
    Although not updated for some time, this add-on has consistently worked for me for over 5 years. It's been my go-to research tool when using Firefox. Bookmarks are OK but fall short when trying to do some concerted research but this session manager is fantastic. It's never failed me and syncs easily between devices using Mozilla Sync. Thanks to the dev for this gem and hopefully it stays updated as Firefox progresses.
  • by Montanagrl5, a year ago
  • by EcksDy, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 14684093, a year ago
    This addon does what firefox sync should do. And it does even more. You can setup collections of links. Fortunately firefox sync does sync bookmarks reliably. But it fails in syncing tabs in a reliable way. Here session sync comes in as a convenient workaround.
  • by Firefox user 16850052, a year ago
    Lost all saved history when I encounter a PC crash.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Please do not use Session Sync for auto history saving. It's not something that it's guaranteed and it's even in the description of the addon on the first line with bold. It's just a feature that is most of good enough but not something that is perfect.

    THIS ADDON IS NOT INTENDED FOR AUTO-SAVING OF SESSIONS!

    As for saving sessions manually, those sessions are stored into bookmarks so it should be impossible to lose them unless the whole Firefox profile is broken in which case is not the addon fault.
  • by Firefox user 17989927, a year ago
    I use Session Sync since 3 years now and it worked super for me, fast, reliable and neat to use. After a recent computer breakdown, at the computer store they made a new operating system installation and a minor recovery of my data. Mr.Ivanica helped me providing precious information and all the support in order to get the extension back at work again with all my sessions 100% restored.
  • by Firefox user 17422724, 2 years ago
    Extremely useful addon. I have used this for at least 3 years.
  • by Nabeel Kirmani, 2 years ago
    The best out there.
  • by Firefox user 17698144, 2 years ago
    Great add-on! Pinned tabs are saved, but not restored as pinned in Firefox on Linux. It would be fantastic to be able to find duplicate tabs also! Cheers!
  • by BryanChance, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 17687656, 2 years ago
  • by Irwan, 2 years ago
    Great add-on. I wish there are options to change the colour or theme of the interface. Something even basic, like; light, grey and dark.
  • by Firefox user 6010058, 2 years ago
  • by PeaceByJesus.net, 2 years ago
    Sorry: I had stated that "there is no option to save a session" since I did not see one, or read that this was to be found via mouse hover over a heart icon (like "favorites"). I thought it would be in text, and maybe via right click. As a long time user of the legacy Session Manager I also assumed that this add on would auto save sessions depending on how often you wanted, and where you wanted. And restore local web pages as well.

    However, the untitled heart icon does work to save that session as a bookmark, which is good though where the bookmark is saved is not an option.

    And I also see via the tutorial (moz-extension://cf54e725-638a-4074-b4ae-b519e7d0f380/data/home/home.html) that Gabriel Ivanica has put a lot of work into this add on and that there are some options!

    So thanks for this needed good add on, and it works for me even while using the Izheil Multi-row tabs patch.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    What do you mean by no option to save sessions?
    There's a red heart icon that has a tooltip with "Save Session".
    Auto-save is not saving in bookmarks, only manual saving will do so because otherwise I would create thousands of almost useless bookmarks for users.
    The addon should work as intended, but in case some other addon creates some weird incompatibility it might not, but that's something I can't fix or change. Though, there should clearly be no issues to save a certain session.
  • by asdasd asdasasd, 2 years ago
    Excellent!!! very few plugins are as useful as this one. I like to have many tabs open and this tool allows me to manage them in a spectacular way. Thank you very much!!!

    I hope that in the future it will continue to be updated, even if they don't add more features, it should be incorporated by Firefox natively.
  • by dafFDasd, 2 years ago
    OK, so I have updated the review:

    Lists currently open windows and tabs, clicking switches to clicked tab. But no tab delete nor search in tabs functionality. Max Pop up window size is too small. It needs to be a full page in new tab.

    Does not auto save sessions.

    UPDATE: The „Tab View” button opens a new page instead of a pop up. I'd rename it to something more intuitive (maybe view everything in new tab). It is possible to search the tabs there using Ctrl+g.

    But despite the entry being highlighted after exiting from the search, the Enter key does not activate the tab.

    Also Ctrl+Shift+V is a bad choice of hotkey. It is already universally reserved and used as „Paste without formatting”. I'd recommend opening in new tab view by default instead.




    UPDATE 2: The hotkey can be changed. But the Settings popup closes every damn time I set something. It requires to reopen the stupid main pop up, then the settings pop up again and scroll down again to the last place.


    Additionally the developer has not responded to the lack of close current tab/window functionality. This is the most important feature remaining.

    Instead of practical functionality, this add-on includes wasteful animations without option to turn them off. They should be off by default or removed completely. It is an (annoying) anti-feature to waste time staring at unnecessary delays in workflow.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hi. I understand that you would expect something from an addon but the description states clearly that the addon is not intended for Auto-Saving of session. At the same time popup size is simply limited by Firefox, that's the maximum any developer can do, simply I can't make it bigger than that because that's and API limitation (nobody knows why just Firefox stupid decisions).
    Regarding the full-page or new-tab -> those options are already available
    Regarding search in tabs: yeah.. sorry that's a feature that would've been nice but was not able to implement it.
    Auto-Save: There is some autosave implemented but not a full-featured like maybe other addons might have, but the whole purpose of the addon is to manually save what you need.
  • by Firefox user 17455306, 2 years ago
  • by SiteBuilderOne, 2 years ago
    Excellent add-on, highly intuitive.
    The ability to dock this in to native FireFox Sidebar would be awesome (Simple Tab Groups has this option). Currently using Tab View working great - thanks!!!
  • by Rei, 2 years ago
  • by kcufuoyeid, 2 years ago
    If you have hundreds of tabs autosave feature will use high IO/ disk writing, even while Firefox is IDLE. I mean no user activity, not a single website opened or active, no changes happening. On fresh profile it's negligle. My main profile its hitting up to 36mb every 10 seconds. Given that I leave Firefox running 24/7. This is an SSD killer. For the record I have thousands of bookmarks and hundreds of tabs opened but they are inactive and unloaded. I recently updated Firefox to 100 and have Firefox running in Sandboxie. A workaround for this is to disable the 'autosave' option or change it to a high value like 600seconds (10 minutes). The default setting is absurdly low 15 seconds. I personally uninstalled as I rarely used this addon.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hi. I'm sorry that you consider this a bad experience but please understand that your context is way outside of a normal user situation. The addon just tries to save the data into storage and I have no way of configuring how and where that storage goes, it's what the API provides. As regarding the configuration, you have the option to not use the saving at all (disable) or you have the option to change the interval of the saves, there is not really anything left to do, and the timing was set to 15 seconds because most users have a few tabs opened and saving them will not require substantial IO or storage. In your case yes it does not makes sense but that's why you have the options to change. The storage space is just made up of the URL and title of the addon and the icon of the site nothing more, so there's no real overhead that I create other than what it is required for a session.

    Please also not that the addon description clearly states that "THIS ADDON IS NOT INTENDED FOR AUTO-SAVING OF SESSIONS!".
    Having this in mind, giving a 1 star rating to something that is not intended for your own purposes and in that context of having hundreds of tabs it's a little bit excessive.
  • by thokyo864, 3 years ago
    Awesome and intuitive right out of the box.