Reviews for Tabby - Window & Tab Manager
Tabby - Window & Tab Manager by BillK
Review by dafFDasd
Rated 2 out of 5
by dafFDasd, 2 years agoTiny pop up window. No full page tab management. Almost useless because of this.
180 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18366944, 2 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18453919, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by theOilersConstant, 15 days agoEu só baixei pelo atalho de pin, que não consegui fazer funcionar. Se funciona, precisa deixar mais claro como devo usar.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Racer_X_2040, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18406470, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17903459, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18330909, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kirk, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fadel Bahar, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by J.A. Stewart, 4 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Cr8zy_Ivan, 4 months agoI really appreciate Tabby for the ability to Quickly View all your Open Tabs, throughout all your Firefox Windows. As I often have upwards of 10 Firefox Windows open at one time, this Extension allows me to quickly find the one Tab I was looking for.
I do have one major gripe however, which is the reason for the 2 Stars (and apologies for that by the way). The controls and Hotkeys for Tabby are so "User Unfriendly", I just can't wrap my head around them. I've gone through the Hotkeys list multiple times. They're just not the type of controls that stick in my mind. And unfortunately, the only place you'll find the list is here, in the Firefox Add-On store (and Firefox doesn't have quick-links in the Extension Manager that can redirect you to an Extension's Page, and so you're stuck fumbling to get to Firefox's Add-On Store, and then searching for Tabby). I've been using this Extension for 6 months maybe, and every time I try to do something "intuitive" I end up closing a Tab or a Window I didn't intend to. Moving something around, selecting who knows what that went... where?
It would already be an improvement if you could find the Hotkeys list in Tabby's Options Page. And if you could customize the Hotkeys yourself, THEN you'd be set.
I really appreciate Tabby for the Visualization part. And I do use Tabby quite often for that. But as far as trying to move or change anything in the Sidebar, I try not to touch anything. It's a "just look, don't touch" type of scenario, because I just end up too confused afterwards. - Rated 5 out of 5by Apple, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, 4 months agoInteresting concept, also adopted by other tab managers (creates lists of tabs, which are much easier than tiny squeezed tabs in the built-in bar to view and handle). The preview of the tab is very useful, outstanding from other tab managers. On the down side, the save-all-tabs function does just that, saves all tabs... And nothing more. No management of saved tabs, controlled restoration, moving tabs, nothing at all. When restoring the tabs, it simply throws them all open at once, which can be disastrous if there are hundreds of tabs (even more so if the tabs are from authenticated sites, which may not like multiple tab access.) Last, but not least, restored tabs ignore containers.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18257732, 5 months agoI like this addon, but the lack of a user guide is frustrating. I only learned how to use it by reading the author's response to reviews here
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10372875, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18142251, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pnhan, 8 months agoBeautiful and nicely addons!!
Just one point is it super heavy for my old laptop... - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18076888, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13930295, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ALLEX, 10 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by e scoles, a year agoMain thing I want from a tab manager is for it to auto-save sessions so they can be restored when Firefox inevitably fails to reload them after a restart. This does not appear to do that. It appears to do nothing but facilitate navigating between tabs, & suspending some tabs that are not currently needed. It seems to do those things OK, but they just aren't nearly as important to me as the baseline functionality of saving a list of open tabs to be restored on restart.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Cam NYC, a year agoI'm sorry, developer, but I've tried and tried to get a manual for this extension, to no avail. The user interface is not so obvious that you don't need one.
You say "You can even save all you windows and tabs for later with just one click!" - ok, then, how do I do that? I had a ton of tabs open, clicked on the "save websites for later", closed firefox, and when I came back there was no sign of those tabs anywhere! I'm so aggravated!
Please include documentation for your project! Your shortcuts don't help. A window is a collection of tabs? Or is that the little folder icon? Shortcut for opening last window does not work for me.
Why do you assume we know these things? Btw, I'm computer savvy, even dabble in a couple of programming languages. And yet I cannot use your extension!Developer response
posted a year agoOnce you click on the "save websites for later" button and it shows you a checkmark indicating it saved successfully, you just need to click the second button right below it and it will restore everything. I hoped it would be visible and clear since it's shown immediately on the front page.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by the little folder icon, but all the tabs should just show up directly on the front. Windows should say "Window 1", 2, and so on. In that way yeah it's a collection of tabs.
As for the shortcuts it's kind of a spaghetti of different operating systems having different shortcut conflicts, and so I've tried to make it so that it's easy to change the shortcuts to your own specifications. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortcuts-firefox (It's in the settings page for future reference) - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5905964, a year agoIf I've denied the permission for tab preview, just go ahead and disable the preference for that instead of bothering me again and again about it.
Developer response
posted a year agoThat should not be happening! I think the problem is that the actual Firefox permission popup opens *behind* the Tabby window, so even though Tabby is supposed to automatically disable tab previews once the user denies the permission, it doesn't get a chance to since it's already closed. I'll have to find a workaround for that but for now can you try disabling tab previews directly from the options page? - Rated 5 out of 5by Rahul, a year ago