Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
Review by AndyL964
Rated 5 out of 5
by AndyL964, 7 years agoAccidentally reported this add-on for abuse... so sorry about that. But anyway...
Thanks for making this extension! It's got great UI (especially the colourful buttons) and is filled with features and customizations, and best of all: no more importing/exporting for saved sessions; very ingenious of you to make use of Firefox's Sync feature!
I would really appreciate it if you could add drag-and-drop support (for manually reordering sessions/tabs from a specific session) in addition to the multi-selection support (which would be awesome if you want to save/open/delete individual tabs/sessions) that others have requested in their reviews!
Also, I was wondering if you would be adding support for Firefox on mobile (and maybe even Chrome) anywhere in the future. I currently use TabCloud on Chrome, which I wished the developer would add support for Firefox Quantum, so it would be really nice if this add-on had cross-browser support. If not, even if it's just support for Firefox on mobile, it would be great!
And also, it may just be me, but I find it a bit ugly how the text can appear under the star and x buttons in the search bar, but maybe that's just me.
Edit: Thanks for the quick and detailed reply.
Feel free to take your time adding the features; the extension is already amazing as it is right now. I'm not a very experienced dev yet, so I wouldn't know if how difficult adding support for Chrome is, but either way, I really do appreciate how you're doing all this for the community.
And I see your point... it's a lot of work to code a completely separate UI just for the mobile platform. Considering how big the PC version one was, it'll definitely be difficult to fit everything onto such a small screen. Thank you for mentioning it, though, and for the suggestion. It's not very ideal, but at least it's also not terribly difficult to access the sessions, but it is still quite annoying to have to open each tab individually.
I see, I'm glad I pointed it out then. I actually do give my sessions really descriptive names sometimes, so maybe you're right about how you might have missed it.
Anyway, it should be me who's thanking you for taking your time to reply, and for your dedication. I'm looking forward to any and all the future updates and features, and I wish you good luck on your journey!... Oh, and also, congrats on being one of the three winners for the extensions challenge!
Thanks for making this extension! It's got great UI (especially the colourful buttons) and is filled with features and customizations, and best of all: no more importing/exporting for saved sessions; very ingenious of you to make use of Firefox's Sync feature!
I would really appreciate it if you could add drag-and-drop support (for manually reordering sessions/tabs from a specific session) in addition to the multi-selection support (which would be awesome if you want to save/open/delete individual tabs/sessions) that others have requested in their reviews!
Also, I was wondering if you would be adding support for Firefox on mobile (and maybe even Chrome) anywhere in the future. I currently use TabCloud on Chrome, which I wished the developer would add support for Firefox Quantum, so it would be really nice if this add-on had cross-browser support. If not, even if it's just support for Firefox on mobile, it would be great!
And also, it may just be me, but I find it a bit ugly how the text can appear under the star and x buttons in the search bar, but maybe that's just me.
Edit: Thanks for the quick and detailed reply.
Feel free to take your time adding the features; the extension is already amazing as it is right now. I'm not a very experienced dev yet, so I wouldn't know if how difficult adding support for Chrome is, but either way, I really do appreciate how you're doing all this for the community.
And I see your point... it's a lot of work to code a completely separate UI just for the mobile platform. Considering how big the PC version one was, it'll definitely be difficult to fit everything onto such a small screen. Thank you for mentioning it, though, and for the suggestion. It's not very ideal, but at least it's also not terribly difficult to access the sessions, but it is still quite annoying to have to open each tab individually.
I see, I'm glad I pointed it out then. I actually do give my sessions really descriptive names sometimes, so maybe you're right about how you might have missed it.
Anyway, it should be me who's thanking you for taking your time to reply, and for your dedication. I'm looking forward to any and all the future updates and features, and I wish you good luck on your journey!... Oh, and also, congrats on being one of the three winners for the extensions challenge!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks 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.
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.