Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
169 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14931639, 5 years agoNice addon !
... but how can I delete all sessions in tab "Sessions" ?Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for review. The easiest way to delete everything is just open Bookmark Menu (CTRL + SHIFT + B) and select the SessionSync folder and delete any folder you want from there (or all of them). Assuming that by deleting you really mean to remove them completely, that's the easiest way. Of course you can't really restore them after that. If you think you need them you can just move them elsewhere and they won't be showing anymore in the "Session" Tab - Rated 5 out of 5by AmbiguousNinja, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13190721, 5 years agoperfect! exactly what i need, it's annoying that a feature like this does not come built in firefox
- Rated 5 out of 5by mariusz, 5 years agoLove the extension. Thank you for your work! I subscribe to what the previous reviewer said though. It'd be a killer to be able to automatically sync windows with their connected sessions. Right now having to do it manually (and having to remember about it) is a bit cumbersome. If it's a resource heavy operation it could be done like every couple of minutes or so.
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posted 5 years agoThanks a lot for the review. I really appreciate it. Assuming that this request keeps coming I'll have to see what I can do about it. Can't promise a fast implementation for it but I will definitely try to look up for a solution because it's clear that it's a feature many user expect. Of course, it will come with a few limitation, like only being able to sync a certain window and not all of them, because a session is stored just as I window and not as a collection of windows and right now it will be kinda impossible to track multiple windows at the same time. I intend to offer an option for this before the end of the year. Thanks again. - Rated 5 out of 5by MarcDeluxe, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14664719, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Miloš Ćirić, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14006752, 5 years agoLoved it but... I have many sessions named and saved to continue working/learning on those topics. Yet once one of the sessions is modified (like closing some tabs or adding others) it is not updated where you saved (as it fluidly works in similar extensions), it is only stored under "active session". Even if you manually save it, it will do it as another new session, not with the name you initially saved it, which totally ruins the purpose of it (at least for me)... Any chance you fix this soon?
EDIT (response to response 1): Yes I can overwrite the session. Problem is that the original session is not selected/highlighted by default, so I have to find out which one could it be. In many occasions this is too cumbersome even though I name almost all of them, and if I have changed all or many of the tabs, it could even be impossible.
Also, when I close a tab is because I don't want it in the session, same as if I keep a tab open is because I want it in the session. That's what sessions are. If didn't want to be adapted to my session (if wanted them permanently stored) I would save them as a bookmark. You can open all bookmarks in a folder at the same time, so why would anyone need a session that is just a bookmark folder?
Anyway, having it as an option, even if not default, would be good enough. And in case it helps doing it by little by little, before implementing the automatic saving, it'd be great that the add-on highlighted the current window-session under "sessions". This is more important than the automatic saving, although for the experience to be complete as in others (at least in other browsers -let me know if you want me to give you some examples), automatization would clearly easy things more. Saving it just when closing the window would be enough. But again, being able to overwrite the session when I want with a keyboard shortcut that saves it with the name it was already created would be a very useful first step... Thanks for listening!Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for feedback. Regarding to your question. Can't you actually use the overwrite session feature ? There are a number of reasons why I didn't implement automatic tracking for sessions, because of performance when using the bookmarks as storage as well as because you are free to open as many sessions as possible and not decide for yourself what you want to save or not. I understand that this is a limitation compared to other sessions but this addon is mostly intended for on-demand saving and not really tracking every step. Implementing this feature is not really easy but if I find the time I might try to implement a special option to do so. But just so you know... if you close open tabs, for sure you can loose data from the old session because everything will be constantly replaced. I know for sure that for some users that would not be a good idea, so the only way I can possible implement this is through a special option, and not as default behaviour.
In the meantime... In your case though, if you select the old session and press the Overwrite session button it should behave just as you want? Or is it not ? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14516621, 5 years agoBest Session Manager I have used. The ability to easily save and restore windows is great. It would be amazing to finally get support for Tree Style Tab, that would definitively take this addon to the next level! I am patiently waiting for: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync/issues/43
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posted 5 years agoThank you for using the addon. I know that's a long time requested feature, once I find a good solution to provide all the required features I will definitely add support for Tree Style Tab. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15240911, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15253725, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Casktura, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15185809, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15168520, 5 years agoGreat extension! Open source and no lock in! Just excellent!
- Rated 5 out of 5by gican, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12399213, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15060820, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amy, 5 years agoDevs made real all my suggestions! This extension is almost ideal now, thank you!! ☺
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posted 5 years agoThank you as well for using the addon, and for the great rating :) Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for using the addon. I'm really glad that you find it useful.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13244450, 5 years agoThe error I was getting is now somehow disappeared. So I changed my rating from 2 stars to 5 stars.
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posted 5 years agoThanks for the update...
Now, there's no perfect software out there and I'm pretty sure there can be a few bugs into my addon as well but I try to fix them as soon as possible if they really brake the functionality. If you ever have problems again please don't have any reservation in using the feedback option from the addon to contact me because It's way faster to discuss about certain issues and understand better how to deal with that and I can assure you that I do everything possible to fix problems very fast.
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Hi. Any chance You can contact me directly over email to solve this issue. It may happen that some bookmarks were saved wrong somehow (it's fixable). If the page is really one of those links then that's not an issue, but If the page is suppose to be a web page then maybe it was saved wrong. Anyway I need to know what URL did the page had, if it's not a restricted URL then probably like I said maybe after a Firefox update or add-on update something was saved wrong. There was another user that had a similar problem and we fixed it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15013727, 5 years agoit's just amazing great job and thank you a lot
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posted 5 years agoThanks a lot! For me, it's amazing when others find it as useful as myself because I never quite expected that something that I build for myself will be as useful for others as well :D I'm really glad you like it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15006177, 5 years agoThis is an awesome tab management. Really friendly and simple but powerful. I really like it. In my notebook great! But, when I tried use it in my cell phone don´t work, only a page blank (in the bar show: moz-extension://1098... Gabriel may you help me please?
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Thanks Gabriel, was my fault. The Session Sync is really great, go on!Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the review. Sadly the addon is not working right now on mobile (it has some issues with the API from mobile and I couldn't get it to work a while back - I should try again maybe I can make it work now). There should be no way to install it on Firefox mobile and I really have no idea how you managed to install it that because it's not supported and there's no official version for mobile so this is quite strange that you managed to do that.
Of course everything you saved into bookmarks you can access them on the mobile device (as long as you have configured Firefox Sync account to sync bookmarks).. It's not perfect but at least if you really need access to the saved session you can open them. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13226748, 5 years agoI've tried all sorts of session and tab management plugins in several browsers. This plugin is a real gem. I develop websites for many clients, and I often need to keep a record of several urls for each one - the abiility to save groups of tabs grouped under my client name is a huge benefit. I can simply re-open a group of pages when I need to. I've found that other tab/session managers tend to have little control over whether they restore tabs to the same window, or even replace the current session completely - not so with Session Sync - you can open the tabs in the same window, or a new one. Or even open tabs individually if you prefer. One other nice touch, is that the saved 'sessions' are actually saved as bookmark groups, so even if the addon stops working, I still have all of them saved. Massively useful, and I'm not sure I could manage without it. Many thanks to Gabriel for an essential addon.
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posted 5 years agoThanks a lot for the kind words and the nice review. It matters a lot to me to know that there people out there that really appreciate it and it gives me another good reason to continue to improve it further. - Rated 5 out of 5by ZevSua, 5 years ago