Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
Review by eUROs
Rated 5 out of 5
by eUROs, 6 years agoUPDATE 29/02/20:
After I tried other similar Addons, this is the WINNER for me for now! It takes some time to figure out all the features and tools, but it is a very convenient and a solid small piece of software, which is a necessary tool for those who want to never loose their hundreds of tabs!
One more feature that is still lacking and is not in the extension, as I said in my older reviews, there aren't any displayed NUMBERS of the open tabs, just to know how many tabs we have in one session Window.
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-> 1/9/18: Thanks for the very fast reply!
1) I am glad that you liked my idea of showing the number of open tabs in a session. It will be a very good way to separate which session has the most or less tabs. :-)
2) That's would be cool as well. (A search box for finding tabs names), is in your future plans!
3) I never had more than one window with tabs open. Only one window, always. And I've never understood the reason why some people have more than one browser window open, with 3 tabs on one and 20 tabs on the other... what for. He He he
* => Please consider one more thing that this addon is causing. Because before installing this addon, this wasn't happening. Some (tabs/pages) can not be Loaded when I start my Firefox, and they are displaying this message:
<If the page was not loaded automatically please check that lazy loading is enabled in addon configuration panel. >>
Firefox Addon API prevents loading certain URL types. This is not an addon issue.
►chrome: URLs
►javascript: URLs
►data: URLs
►file: URLs (files on the filesystem)
►priviledged about: URLs
I have already Enabled that before, but again sometimes I have to reload the certain tabs to show the content and sometimes they are dead. they can't be reloaded.
+ Up to today of trying this addon, I am happy of its general performance and its present features. :-)
By the way Why you said I gave only one star rating? Haven't you noticed that I gave 3 stars on my First try rating. Not One. :-)
Now I am giving one more star (and you have 4 ★★★★). Because when I start my Firefox Browser, it doesn't asks me to restore my session anymore. I guess that was only happened on the first day of installing this addon. Afterwards has worked great! I will give 5 stars when You implement the 2 features above :-)
Thanks again!
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---- Previous Review: It seems to be a very promising addon. But there are some things that are not working well as expected by me:
1) I don't see anywhere in the window view, the number of Tabs in a specific session. It would be really helpful to know how many tabs we have in each session, because I usually have between 300-400 open tabs in firefox!.
2) the search box is for what purpose exactly? Because I am searching for some tabs in my session and it doesn't find anything. Is it a search box for sessions only? really?
3) I am a little confused because I noticed that the New tabs I opened on my Firefox browser are not saved automatically every 15 seconds, as shows in the options menu. I might be wrong because it is my first interaction with the app, but lets see what will happen in few days. I will change my review to positive (add more stars) or to a negative one (remove stars), if it asks me the next time I open my browser and restores the older session which I didn't want to restore and lost my new session. Lets see.
After I tried other similar Addons, this is the WINNER for me for now! It takes some time to figure out all the features and tools, but it is a very convenient and a solid small piece of software, which is a necessary tool for those who want to never loose their hundreds of tabs!
One more feature that is still lacking and is not in the extension, as I said in my older reviews, there aren't any displayed NUMBERS of the open tabs, just to know how many tabs we have in one session Window.
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-> 1/9/18: Thanks for the very fast reply!
1) I am glad that you liked my idea of showing the number of open tabs in a session. It will be a very good way to separate which session has the most or less tabs. :-)
2) That's would be cool as well. (A search box for finding tabs names), is in your future plans!
3) I never had more than one window with tabs open. Only one window, always. And I've never understood the reason why some people have more than one browser window open, with 3 tabs on one and 20 tabs on the other... what for. He He he
* => Please consider one more thing that this addon is causing. Because before installing this addon, this wasn't happening. Some (tabs/pages) can not be Loaded when I start my Firefox, and they are displaying this message:
<If the page was not loaded automatically please check that lazy loading is enabled in addon configuration panel. >>
Firefox Addon API prevents loading certain URL types. This is not an addon issue.
►chrome: URLs
►javascript: URLs
►data: URLs
►file: URLs (files on the filesystem)
►priviledged about: URLs
I have already Enabled that before, but again sometimes I have to reload the certain tabs to show the content and sometimes they are dead. they can't be reloaded.
+ Up to today of trying this addon, I am happy of its general performance and its present features. :-)
By the way Why you said I gave only one star rating? Haven't you noticed that I gave 3 stars on my First try rating. Not One. :-)
Now I am giving one more star (and you have 4 ★★★★). Because when I start my Firefox Browser, it doesn't asks me to restore my session anymore. I guess that was only happened on the first day of installing this addon. Afterwards has worked great! I will give 5 stars when You implement the 2 features above :-)
Thanks again!
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---- Previous Review: It seems to be a very promising addon. But there are some things that are not working well as expected by me:
1) I don't see anywhere in the window view, the number of Tabs in a specific session. It would be really helpful to know how many tabs we have in each session, because I usually have between 300-400 open tabs in firefox!.
2) the search box is for what purpose exactly? Because I am searching for some tabs in my session and it doesn't find anything. Is it a search box for sessions only? really?
3) I am a little confused because I noticed that the New tabs I opened on my Firefox browser are not saved automatically every 15 seconds, as shows in the options menu. I might be wrong because it is my first interaction with the app, but lets see what will happen in few days. I will change my review to positive (add more stars) or to a negative one (remove stars), if it asks me the next time I open my browser and restores the older session which I didn't want to restore and lost my new session. Lets see.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoUpdated Response [03-09-2018]
Thanks for telling me about that issue with dead tabs that can't be reloaded. If they are one of those types of URL sadly that's normal. (And you can't even press on the link to reload it from what I remember). If it was a normal web page.. then it might be an issue and I will investigate it. (Actually with Firefox 63 I will be able to use an internal API and not rely a special workaround I had to build for this.)
Sorry about that misunderstanding with 1-star rating. Probably my wording was not perfect but I never said you did that. I clearly saw you gave it 3 stars. I was actually talking about some "general" easy to disappoint users when the addon does not do what they want/expect without taking into consideration what addon description. I suppose it was not the right time/place to say that.
Yes, better support the other 2 features you requested will be surely implemented in futures updates.
Thanks again for the support.
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Hi. Thanks for the detailed review.
1) Well, sadly the addon doesn't show that, but since it's a good idea I will add this feature in a future update.
2) Sorry but at this very moment that's all the search box can do. I don't have a full search feature. It is planned but not yet ready.
3) Please take into consideration that the addon is mostly intended for on-demand saving into bookmarks. The auto-saving history is mostly intended for keeping session for a short time (last 2 days, last 10 browser sessions, etc). Also, at this moment the saving does not work for closed windows (that meas if you have 3 windows each with 100 tabs and you close one, only the remaining windows will be saved (and overwrite the last save)). I'm working on a fix that keeps tracking for all the windows.
Things to consider:
- Take into consideration that saving 400 tabs as bookmarks might freeze the browser for a fraction of a second (probably depends on the PC configuration as well) but from test I know that saving around 1000 tabs took 1 second in my case.
- Ultimately, the addon might not suit you well at this moment because of the missing features that you may consider critical. The addon was initially built with a specific purpose in mind - manual session management while other auto-tracking features were added over time and of course it's still missing things.
Please be fair with the final rating when you plan to update it and also take into consideration what the addon can do and not only some specific requirements that might be missing (I totally get that missing some features can be deal-breaking for some users but I often fail to see why is that a good reason to give a 1 star rating :D). Of course, it's a free world, free speech, free addons :)
Thanks again.
Thanks for telling me about that issue with dead tabs that can't be reloaded. If they are one of those types of URL sadly that's normal. (And you can't even press on the link to reload it from what I remember). If it was a normal web page.. then it might be an issue and I will investigate it. (Actually with Firefox 63 I will be able to use an internal API and not rely a special workaround I had to build for this.)
Sorry about that misunderstanding with 1-star rating. Probably my wording was not perfect but I never said you did that. I clearly saw you gave it 3 stars. I was actually talking about some "general" easy to disappoint users when the addon does not do what they want/expect without taking into consideration what addon description. I suppose it was not the right time/place to say that.
Yes, better support the other 2 features you requested will be surely implemented in futures updates.
Thanks again for the support.
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Hi. Thanks for the detailed review.
1) Well, sadly the addon doesn't show that, but since it's a good idea I will add this feature in a future update.
2) Sorry but at this very moment that's all the search box can do. I don't have a full search feature. It is planned but not yet ready.
3) Please take into consideration that the addon is mostly intended for on-demand saving into bookmarks. The auto-saving history is mostly intended for keeping session for a short time (last 2 days, last 10 browser sessions, etc). Also, at this moment the saving does not work for closed windows (that meas if you have 3 windows each with 100 tabs and you close one, only the remaining windows will be saved (and overwrite the last save)). I'm working on a fix that keeps tracking for all the windows.
Things to consider:
- Take into consideration that saving 400 tabs as bookmarks might freeze the browser for a fraction of a second (probably depends on the PC configuration as well) but from test I know that saving around 1000 tabs took 1 second in my case.
- Ultimately, the addon might not suit you well at this moment because of the missing features that you may consider critical. The addon was initially built with a specific purpose in mind - manual session management while other auto-tracking features were added over time and of course it's still missing things.
Please be fair with the final rating when you plan to update it and also take into consideration what the addon can do and not only some specific requirements that might be missing (I totally get that missing some features can be deal-breaking for some users but I often fail to see why is that a good reason to give a 1 star rating :D). Of course, it's a free world, free speech, free addons :)
Thanks again.