Reviews for MySessions
MySessions by CromS
294 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nucleorion, 5 years agoSolo restaura las pestañas que hayas usado el dia que se guarda la sesion. NO restaura las pestañas abiertas que no hayas usado
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13508895, 5 years agonot perfect, but improving...most annoying bug, sometimes the option "select all" will only select the "current window"
2020/05/14
after last firefox update...the restore function doesnt open all the saved windows just the first one. - Rated 4 out of 5by Claudy Dark, 5 years agoI like Mysessions, thanks for all the work.
One thing I miss, please make it possible to define the places where the data is saved, I don't like the bookmark saving part, that bloats everything up and is not very useful or needed. I would like that the data is only saved to save folder local.
Thanks in Advance - Rated 1 out of 5by raywood , 5 years agoI like the concept. Unfortunately, I found this add-on unresponsive to my settings; and when I had a crash that Firefox did not recover, this add-on did not help.
Edit: replying to the developer response: it appeared that nothing had been saved for the past several weeks. The add-on kept ignoring the folder that I designated for the backups; there aren't any recent backups in either my specified folder or in the folder that the add-on kept choosing. Possibly they are somewhere else. But I don't see them in Firefox Bookmarks either.Developer response
posted 5 years agoUpdate:
It remains to see the TimeLine. Each saving algorithm works differently and independently of each other.
Well, all three functions could not break at the same time ...
I can’t imagine what kind of failure could have happened so that the sessions were lost. Sessions are stored in three independent repositories: bookmarks, local storage, and files. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14645085, 5 years agoThis is the best Session Manager. Sure, there are some bugs, but the alternatives have worse bugs, a clunkier user interface, and/or limited features. Ever since Michael Kraft's Session Manager from Firefox 56, I have regularly searched for a replacement. Again and again, MySessions has proven to be the best.
- Rated 3 out of 5by grahamperrin, 5 years agohttp://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14860716#p14860716
– for a session that should have had 16 (sixteen) tabs, only 8 (eight) existed.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=3044441&p=14860399#p14860399
– the preference to use a tab (not a pop-up) for the interface is not respected. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15569717, 5 years agoInexcusably bad UI, as if the designer has never been exposed to technology after 2003
Developer response
posted 5 years agoDo you look for the book or the cover?
If it's stupid, but it works — it's not stupid!
And yes, I live in a forest, in a dugout, without water, electricity and the Internet, so I don’t know new technologies. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14415058, 5 years agoUnreliable. Several times from one day to the next the content of a saved sassion has changed with tabs missing
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13476695, 5 years agoI love this session saver. It's the only reason I still use Firefox. My sessions are an archive of my life, let alone browser history. It has never failed me. Only one thing could improve it as far as I'm concerned and that would be a search feature. Sometimes I just remember a fragment, like "red froghats" and I so wish I could search for just that site that I visited 2 years ago.
- Rated 4 out of 5by alewell, 5 years agoThis extension works well, but I really wish there were simple explanations for why each permission is required. Some are obvious (access tabs, modify bookmarks), but why others are needed is not obvious to me. At some point access to Download files/history was required. Why? I would like to know, thank you.
EDIT: Thank you for the prompt response!Developer response
posted 5 years agoWhy does MySessions require permission X?
Read and modify bookmarks and Access browser tabs: These are key permissions because all the functionality boils down to bookmarking tabs.
Store unlimited amount of client-side data: Local browser storage is used to save the TimeLine: periodic snapshots of sessions, daily snapshots of sessions and session snapshots when the browser is closed.
Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history: This permission is used to save session backups to a file. This permission is given in this form. If only File Download could be used, then I would use it.
Access recently closed tabs: I have used this permission and am using it for experiments with the built-in session saving system, so far to no avail. I agree, in the release version - this permission is superfluous, I will remove it. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15532401, 5 years agoDoesn't save a session automatically. More over it creates blank tabs every time I restore the session.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Gernot Hassenpflug, 5 years agoUpdate: Firefox 70 and above is crap, does not load many tabs, the problem is not related to MySessions:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-provides-workaround-for-firefox-70-not-loading-sites/
I would give this 3 stars (for decent operation, after all it is one of the few workable solutions to kind of replace the really good Session Manager from older Firefox). I was using this problem-free on Windows 7 64-bit at work. I still use this perfectly well at home on Debian GNU/Linux 64-bit (debian sid).
Then, 2 weeks ago I migrated my work Windows 7 machine to Windows 10, and also migrated my profile.
I had refreshed Firefox before the migration, so I had to install MySessions into the new profile under Windows 10.
What happens is that very soon, within minutes to an hour, MySessions stops Firefox from loading, refreshing, saving, or otherwise doing anything with its tabs. I need to disable MySessions add-on, reboot Firefox, can then work as usual, but need to re-enable MySessions if I want to see a tab labelled as "Replaced" (cannot easily load saved content of tab if MySessions is disabled).
I did not find any issue related to this, but if it helps MySessions is the only add-on I have installed.
On Windows 10 we use Micro Trends anti-virus, whereas on Windows 7 the company had been utilizing Symantec Anti-Virus software.
Since it has become unusable after migration, I am unsure if this is related to an interoperability issue with Windows 10, anti-virus software, or to migration issues. - Rated 5 out of 5by KaxLon, 5 years agoThis session manager works really well.
It can be left running in the background for a very long time. And if you're a person with many tabs and windows open simultaneously this tool will make your online life much more comfortable and less stressful.
And many of us have spent much time each time the computer needs a restart and we need to bookmark all tabs and windows.
This tool solves this easily with just one click.
I personally pair this addon with the addon called "Snap Links Plus" for a very powerful combo to be able to open many links into tabs, and then just bookmark them all before starting a research session.
Say for example you need to do research on a big dataset over at NASA for the latest data and images from Mars.
Snap the links, save the session. Next time you open up the session everything is where it was last time. Very powerful!
Big thanks to the creator of this addon! =) - Rated 4 out of 5by Alexander, 5 years agoНадо тестировать и проверять, чтобы понять заложенные алгоритмы - не все очевидно. Есть баги. Но, в целом - нормально.
- Rated 5 out of 5by karachin16, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Antikapitalista, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SP77, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Marc, 5 years agoSometimes when I click to 'Remove' a session, it deletes the *wrong* session. Also, my date format (yyyy-MM-dd) is not honored for Auto-saved entries. I wanted to report these issues but can't register to mozillaZine (the site is horrible btw, you shouldn't be using it nowadays). I found the source code on GitHub and wanted to contribute (with fixes), but the code is terribly outdated.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the noticed bug. The bug is fixed in the new version 2.14.11. Email me about the problem with the date format. balyaev[a]gmail.com - Rated 1 out of 5by Afzal, 5 years agoAbsolute Crap. More like a virus that will disable your web browser and refuse to allow you to delete the 'session' backups it creates. Stay well away and use any other Session Tool created by a competent developer.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15247439, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14538789, 5 years ago这个扩展非常好用,非常喜欢。更新到最新版后出现一个问题。每天第一次启动Firefox后MySessions都会生成备份文件,如何取消备份呢?我没有找到取消备份的选项。
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15200282, 5 years agoNo source code provided despite it is distributed under MPL.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoIf you have installed the extension, then you already have access to the source code, it is not obfuscated. If you do not know how to do this, then you can use the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/crxviewer/ - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14653297, 5 years agoMenu is totally broken for several weeks now. All menu items seem out of place and it's impossible to navigate properly.
This happens in several computers (all running Ubuntu 18.04) and even in fresh installations of Firefox. - Rated 4 out of 5by cello, 5 years agoIt works but I don't know why even when I've disabled all timeline and periodic saves, it is still running a background.js that pops up every min to dump a huge chunk of text onto my FF Browser Console log screen like :
"Array(17) [ "{\"title\":\"tempSession\",\"date\":\"7/8/2019_18:34\",\"tabs\":[{\"title\..........."
and that can fill up multiple screens.
Can CromS improve it by letting it stay idle if all I need is a save when closing Firefox.Developer response
posted 5 years agotempSession is a session that will be saved when the window is closed. It is updated every 30 seconds. I did not comment out the line before the release. - Rated 4 out of 5by kjbaumga, 5 years agoAn essential part of any modern browser for any power user *should* be a session saver. Best substitute I've found for the old session saver. Pretty basic but far better than nothing. As for problems, added sessions often don't show up for me in the interface, though are visible in bookmarks menu. Usually they show up when I restart, so not a big deal. Very grateful for this add-on!