Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
Response by Gabriel Ivanica
Developer response
posted 7 years agoReply to P.S.S.S:
=)) Nobody's annoying. I should be really grateful for so much helpful feedback. Although we should have probably not used this review section as a chat. Feel free to contact me on my mail. You can find a leave feedback button with my mail on the top-right side of the help page.
Sadly that "Current Session" from the auto-save section is actually a snapshot of the current session that can be from anywhere between 1 second ago and 10 minutes (whatever time you set in the configuration). So it's not really a reflection of your current session. Again... probably creates some confusions this one as well but I assumed since it's in the auto-saved session it shouldn't be that problematic. Most sure I was wrong. Yes it's sort of funny but like I said when you actually try to fit everything right, there's always something that is not really ok.
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Reply to P.S.S
Yes sadly it does that... it does changes the right panel (where it shows the active session instead of a certain selected session if you had one selected) but I do understand. I don't really like it how it is right know. I'll definitely try to find a solution to it.
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Reply to P.S
You can that that too with SessionSync (CTRL + SHIFT+ V) will open it into a Window or a Tab (depending on what you have set from configurations).
Session Buddy is a great session manager... true, but at the same time quite different from this. I actually use (and probably other users as well) Session Sync as a great organized bookmark manager: If I find something interesting I add the current tab to a certain session. You can only do this by keeping the current tab active only by using the the panel.
The truth is... although I have some feedback I truly have no idea how many users use it purely as a Session Manager, how many as a Bookmarking Manager and how many as both. All I know is that I have somehow to find good solutions (while also preserving a good user experience) to fit as many individual expectations as possible :D. And that's incredibly hard to do. But feedback is great and I will try to improve it as much as possible.
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Later edit:
1. It's true that Active Session is duplicate with the one from 3rd tab - "Current Session" but the 2nd tab does not do that. Basically the first tab is there just to press it to get fast to the "Current Session". Yes it's not really ideal, I will try to remove it somehow because it's a little bit out of place there.
Since the active session can only be accessed through that button when the Auto-saved sessions is disabled (from configuration) I need to think really well how a good solution. Certain configuration options can create a lot of problems and that's why there might be some redundancy each and there.
2. Yeah... I kind of wanted to have them better explained but I always had problems with available space. Since I don't know the width of that tab list longer description can not appear complete. If I manage somehow to kill the first tab I will try to provide better description.
3. True... since this is a feature many users expect I should provide a better description of it. Really good idea to have it there. I will try to add some explanations as soon as possible.
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Thanks for feedback. Import and export functionality will definitely arrive in a future update (as many other features: see https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync/issues/40 for more info). In the meantime you still have an option: Firefox Bookmark Manager can export/import all your bookmarks (these will contain the saved sessions as well since they actually saved as bookmarks).
=)) Nobody's annoying. I should be really grateful for so much helpful feedback. Although we should have probably not used this review section as a chat. Feel free to contact me on my mail. You can find a leave feedback button with my mail on the top-right side of the help page.
Sadly that "Current Session" from the auto-save section is actually a snapshot of the current session that can be from anywhere between 1 second ago and 10 minutes (whatever time you set in the configuration). So it's not really a reflection of your current session. Again... probably creates some confusions this one as well but I assumed since it's in the auto-saved session it shouldn't be that problematic. Most sure I was wrong. Yes it's sort of funny but like I said when you actually try to fit everything right, there's always something that is not really ok.
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Reply to P.S.S
Yes sadly it does that... it does changes the right panel (where it shows the active session instead of a certain selected session if you had one selected) but I do understand. I don't really like it how it is right know. I'll definitely try to find a solution to it.
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Reply to P.S
You can that that too with SessionSync (CTRL + SHIFT+ V) will open it into a Window or a Tab (depending on what you have set from configurations).
Session Buddy is a great session manager... true, but at the same time quite different from this. I actually use (and probably other users as well) Session Sync as a great organized bookmark manager: If I find something interesting I add the current tab to a certain session. You can only do this by keeping the current tab active only by using the the panel.
The truth is... although I have some feedback I truly have no idea how many users use it purely as a Session Manager, how many as a Bookmarking Manager and how many as both. All I know is that I have somehow to find good solutions (while also preserving a good user experience) to fit as many individual expectations as possible :D. And that's incredibly hard to do. But feedback is great and I will try to improve it as much as possible.
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Later edit:
1. It's true that Active Session is duplicate with the one from 3rd tab - "Current Session" but the 2nd tab does not do that. Basically the first tab is there just to press it to get fast to the "Current Session". Yes it's not really ideal, I will try to remove it somehow because it's a little bit out of place there.
Since the active session can only be accessed through that button when the Auto-saved sessions is disabled (from configuration) I need to think really well how a good solution. Certain configuration options can create a lot of problems and that's why there might be some redundancy each and there.
2. Yeah... I kind of wanted to have them better explained but I always had problems with available space. Since I don't know the width of that tab list longer description can not appear complete. If I manage somehow to kill the first tab I will try to provide better description.
3. True... since this is a feature many users expect I should provide a better description of it. Really good idea to have it there. I will try to add some explanations as soon as possible.
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Thanks for feedback. Import and export functionality will definitely arrive in a future update (as many other features: see https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync/issues/40 for more info). In the meantime you still have an option: Firefox Bookmark Manager can export/import all your bookmarks (these will contain the saved sessions as well since they actually saved as bookmarks).
235 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 7 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 5 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14309829, a year agoI 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
- Rated 3 out of 5by rediffusion, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mostly Harmless, a year agoAlthough 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.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Montanagrl5, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EcksDy, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14684093, 2 years agoThis 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.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16850052, 2 years agoLost all saved history when I encounter a PC crash.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoPlease 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17989927, 2 years agoI 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17422724, 2 years agoExtremely useful addon. I have used this for at least 3 years.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17698144, 2 years agoGreat 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!
- Rated 3 out of 5by BryanChance, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17687656, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shodaime, 2 years agoGreat add-on. I wish there are options to change the colour or theme of the interface. Something even basic, like; light, grey and dark.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6010058, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by PeaceByJesus.net, 2 years agoSorry: 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 agoWhat 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by asdasd asdasasd, 2 years agoExcellent!!! 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. - Rated 2 out of 5by dafFDasd, 3 years agoOK, 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 3 years agoHi. 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17455306, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SiteBuilderOne, 3 years agoExcellent 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!!! - Rated 3 out of 5by Rei, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kcufuoyeid, 3 years agoIf 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 3 years agoHi. 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.