Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
234 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15294286, 5 years agoThe best session managing extension by far. But I wish it was ported to chromium
- Rated 5 out of 5by Karish, 5 years agoGreat addon, just what i was looking for!,
Although i would like to have a feature that it would be possible to turn on/off from the options menu,
The feature would be that it could be possible to see the URL in small font under each Title at the session's tabs list,
Would be perfect if it could be done please, thanks, otherwise, awesome job!Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks a lot for the review. Actually the idea is really good. I will add it to the feature list. Can't promise how fast will be integrated but I will add it for sure. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14931639, 5 years agoNice addon !
... but how can I delete all sessions in tab "Sessions" ?Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for review. The easiest way to delete everything is just open Bookmark Menu (CTRL + SHIFT + B) and select the SessionSync folder and delete any folder you want from there (or all of them). Assuming that by deleting you really mean to remove them completely, that's the easiest way. Of course you can't really restore them after that. If you think you need them you can just move them elsewhere and they won't be showing anymore in the "Session" Tab - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15532401, 5 years ago1. The add-on doesn't restore the tabs automatically
2. it doesn't show pictogram of the web sites after tabs restorationDeveloper response
posted 5 years agoI don't really know what to say. It's true that the addon doesn't do that. But, at the same time it was never really meant to do that. Receiving a negative feedback because the addon doesn't do something I never intended to seems a little bit weird, even if you may consider these features as really important and critical for such an addon. Please have in mind that each particular addon is implemented with a certain set o features, and many new features can be added later or will never be added because they are not in line with the addon vision. That's why there are multiple options out there, because there are many developers that though of implementing similar useful things. Not having something in an addon, doesn't mean it's bad, it may simply not be for you. Thanks for review anyway. - Rated 5 out of 5by AmbiguousNinja, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Adrien Caudron, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Beka, 5 years agoJudging from my first saved session I've been using this extension for a year, and I've had no issues until recently when I deleted a couple of saved sessions. I believe this was the first time I deleted any sessions so I'm not sure if it's a new issue or not -- no basis for comparison. I give 3 stars for the year of good use I got out of this extension -- I only wish I didn't decide to clean up the list of old sessions!
After deleting a couple sessions, I'm having the following 3 issues:
1. After I deleted a session, a blank space appeared in the session list in the area it was deleted from. I couldn't click on it, it was just empty space. Upon reloading the browser the list "reshuffled" and the blanks were gone.
2. All but 4 of previously saved sessions from the past year are now blank. They appear in the list and I can click on them, but there are no links listed. Only the 4 most recent saved sessions have any links. I'm not sure when exactly I deleted the old sessions or how that may relate to these 4 that still work -- they may correlate.
3. Of the 4 sessions that still have links listed, none of them will actually restore any of them, either in the same window or a new one. The toolbar shows the button labels when I hover my mouse, but otherwise does not respond at all.Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi. Thanks for review. I will assume that you are talking about manually saved session and not the one from the auto-save tab. The only reason any blank space might appear after you delete a session is if you ordered them by something else than position.
But then... you say that everything is blank ?! But that can't happen for manually saved session because the addon never ever touch that data automatically so deleting it is out of the question.
Please if you can contact me over email I might be able to fix a solution for the problem. First, if you are talking about saved session you have constant backup of them by Firefox and you can restore everything for a few days. Second, if any bookmark was really deleted trust me... the addon is not at fault. There's simply no way the addon will ever do that under any circumstances. There's nothing like that. You either delete it or it will be forever stored into Bookmark Menu -> Session Sync folder.
Everything you manually store is in Bookmark Menu -> Session Sync folder... so if data is there... the it should be displayed in the addon as well.
If you're talking about the auto-saved session... that I can't do to much about them. But if you talk about bookmarks session... even if there by any strange reason you have an error. Reinstalling the addon will make it work without any problem because the data is there in the bookmarks and it will never be deleted randomly. Why you can't access the links... I never encounter this error and I don't actually understand why it won't be fixed if you close the panel and open it again because each time the data is requested from the bookmarks and even if there's a small error it will be fixed right after opening it again.
Like I said, if you can, please contact me over email (press the feedback button from the addon menu and you will be redirected to send an email), because I belive that the issues should be fixable. Just giving it 3 starts after using it for an year will not help anyone, not me, not probably not other people because the issues seems quite strange and there are thousands of people that constantly delete session and there's no issue like that so I assume there's something very edge case here. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13190721, 5 years agoperfect! exactly what i need, it's annoying that a feature like this does not come built in firefox
- Rated 5 out of 5by mariusz, 5 years agoLove the extension. Thank you for your work! I subscribe to what the previous reviewer said though. It'd be a killer to be able to automatically sync windows with their connected sessions. Right now having to do it manually (and having to remember about it) is a bit cumbersome. If it's a resource heavy operation it could be done like every couple of minutes or so.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks a lot for the review. I really appreciate it. Assuming that this request keeps coming I'll have to see what I can do about it. Can't promise a fast implementation for it but I will definitely try to look up for a solution because it's clear that it's a feature many user expect. Of course, it will come with a few limitation, like only being able to sync a certain window and not all of them, because a session is stored just as I window and not as a collection of windows and right now it will be kinda impossible to track multiple windows at the same time. I intend to offer an option for this before the end of the year. Thanks again. - Rated 5 out of 5by MarcDeluxe, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14664719, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Miloš Ćirić, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14006752, 5 years agoLoved it but... I have many sessions named and saved to continue working/learning on those topics. Yet once one of the sessions is modified (like closing some tabs or adding others) it is not updated where you saved (as it fluidly works in similar extensions), it is only stored under "active session". Even if you manually save it, it will do it as another new session, not with the name you initially saved it, which totally ruins the purpose of it (at least for me)... Any chance you fix this soon?
EDIT (response to response 1): Yes I can overwrite the session. Problem is that the original session is not selected/highlighted by default, so I have to find out which one could it be. In many occasions this is too cumbersome even though I name almost all of them, and if I have changed all or many of the tabs, it could even be impossible.
Also, when I close a tab is because I don't want it in the session, same as if I keep a tab open is because I want it in the session. That's what sessions are. If didn't want to be adapted to my session (if wanted them permanently stored) I would save them as a bookmark. You can open all bookmarks in a folder at the same time, so why would anyone need a session that is just a bookmark folder?
Anyway, having it as an option, even if not default, would be good enough. And in case it helps doing it by little by little, before implementing the automatic saving, it'd be great that the add-on highlighted the current window-session under "sessions". This is more important than the automatic saving, although for the experience to be complete as in others (at least in other browsers -let me know if you want me to give you some examples), automatization would clearly easy things more. Saving it just when closing the window would be enough. But again, being able to overwrite the session when I want with a keyboard shortcut that saves it with the name it was already created would be a very useful first step... Thanks for listening!Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for feedback. Regarding to your question. Can't you actually use the overwrite session feature ? There are a number of reasons why I didn't implement automatic tracking for sessions, because of performance when using the bookmarks as storage as well as because you are free to open as many sessions as possible and not decide for yourself what you want to save or not. I understand that this is a limitation compared to other sessions but this addon is mostly intended for on-demand saving and not really tracking every step. Implementing this feature is not really easy but if I find the time I might try to implement a special option to do so. But just so you know... if you close open tabs, for sure you can loose data from the old session because everything will be constantly replaced. I know for sure that for some users that would not be a good idea, so the only way I can possible implement this is through a special option, and not as default behaviour.
In the meantime... In your case though, if you select the old session and press the Overwrite session button it should behave just as you want? Or is it not ? - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15328761, 5 years agoIt's only downside is that you cannot automatically restore all the tabs from the previous session, so I have to click manually every time I open the browser. Otherwise it seems to work pretty well and does its job fine.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for review and for using the addon. Yes, sadly there are a quite few missing features but in time I hope to close the gap and be able to provide as many options as possible to meet everyone's expectation. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14516621, 5 years agoBest Session Manager I have used. The ability to easily save and restore windows is great. It would be amazing to finally get support for Tree Style Tab, that would definitively take this addon to the next level! I am patiently waiting for: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync/issues/43
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you for using the addon. I know that's a long time requested feature, once I find a good solution to provide all the required features I will definitely add support for Tree Style Tab. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15240911, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15253725, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Casktura, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15246577, 5 years agoEvery time I saves the session, the order of the tabs changes (several random tabs are moved to the beginning), which makes this Addon useless.
EDIT: "MySessions" by CromS seems to work fine in this matter, maybe ask him for advice ;>
EDIT2: "The way I save bookmarks is like this... If you have 100 tabs.. then I take each one and tell Firefox
- save the first one at the end, when done... I select the next one and save it ... and so on"
Maybe make a delay between saving tabs, about 0.2 sec or something like that (maybe as a optional option). It is not surprising that when you run many commands at once, something may go wrong in the order in which they were executed.Developer response
posted 5 years agoUpdate 2:
I'll definitely look more into it. And try to fix it. But trust me, unless I can reproduce this myself, it's impossible to know if what change I do are good or not. So I have somehow to find the cause why it is happening first. I'll try maybe to use a really old PC to see if speed can affect it.
Update:
Well... maybe but again. If one of them works for you doesn't really mean one is flawless and the other one has issues. Also like I pointed you, the fact that things are not saved as they should is not something common or directly a bug from this addon. There can be lots of reasons for it (even other extensions at fault that mess with settings or who knows). If there was a chance for me to understand the bug and create the same issue trust me I would have fixed it long ago. I tried on multiple sistems, different configuration, etc, etc... but I had no chance of repeating the bug. If I can't find the issues it's extremely hard to point to an issue in the code. Also, as much as I look over the code there's not something I find wrong with it. It's really strange. So the fact that MySession works in your case doesn't really tell me anything just as with the fact that this extension doesn't somehow works as it was suppose to. There's something else at fault, most probably. I mean...
The way I save bookmarks is like this... If you have 100 tabs.. then I take each one and tell Firefox
- save the first one at the end, when done... I select the next one and save it ... and so on
How this can fail and turn everything into a mess in the bookmarks... god knows... because that's clearly not what I do. So I bet it's something internal to Firefox, just as what Firefox does on the Firefox Mobile side where it randomizes everything in bookmarks like hell. The order I have on Desktop has nothing to do with now it sees that information in the mobile version. From what I notice, it might order them by access time and not by position or whatever it does.
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I'm really sorry that you have this bug, but trust me that's not something common. As much as I wish to fix it there simply nothing I can find wrong with the code. Also the bug seems to happen only for some users so I don't know if it can be related to the speed of the computer or who knows. The only thing I can think of is if somehow Firefox saves randomly some bookmarks although I specifically send the order and save them one after one on purpose. I really have no clue, but probably I will try to create a second check to make sure that everything was saved as it was suppose to and if there was any problem regarding the order to just order them as they should.
I tried with over 100 tabs multiple times, every single time I try to replicate the issue myself I can't simply find it and it's really hard to fix something that only happens in some specific conditions. Not saying that this is not an issue, just point out that it's really hard to find out why it's happening for some users and for others never. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15087666, 5 years agoPls make it so that it can also work when using firefox mobile
Developer response
posted 5 years agoI will try to give another chance to the API. It was suppose to work "out of the box" or that's just what Mozilla says but when I put it on mobile everything was blank. No errors, no issue no nothing, just a blank screen, and I had to cancel mobile support because simply I had no idea what the issue was and/or what to do. But I will try to check again if things work better. Sadly if there is any need to redo the UI for mobile things might not be that straight-forward so I can't really promise anything.
P.S Just in case you were not aware: All your saved sessions (in bookmarks) are still accesiable on Firefox mobile if you look for them in Bookmarks->Menu->SessionSync. I know it's not ideal but at least there something and you can still look up for things if you really need to. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15185809, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15168520, 5 years agoGreat extension! Open source and no lock in! Just excellent!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Multipanda, 5 years agoIt's still saving tabs as it should, but the restore function seems a bit broken.
The restore doesn't restore them in the right order, and also might not restore all tabs when I try to have it restore in a new window. I have a lot, more than a hundred and that seems like too much for the extension to handle.
ALso it would be a good idea to indicate next to each snapshot exactly how many tabs are saved.
It's something Session buddy does and it help keep track as to whether tabs get lost or not.
EDIT 2 (May 2020):
The things mentioned above are still applicable, such as tabs being moved around (someone else suggested creating a tiny delay between each saved tab, might fix it, and it wouldn't negatively impact those who aren't using many tabs),
but worse, sometimes in the intervening months the History seems to have become more bugged, it's just blank, it seems like autosync doesn't actually create sessions in the history tab anymore. At least not anything I can see.
I can still save sessions manually, but there's no auto currently.
EDIT: I appreciate you being so quick to respond, and how obviously dedicated you are to keeping this extension running.
It seems like it's only the History that's bugged, once it gets saved permanently and restored from that one instead, it pops up in the right order it seems. I also disabled all other add-ons and it made no difference.
Shame I didn't notice that until I had spent 10 minutes restoring every tab by hand :-( but them's the breaks.
Yes I'm sure it's not just in reverse order when restoring from History, since that's easy enough to see, by checking first and last, and those around them. I also searched several other tabs and their placement were very different from both what I remember, and what's seen in the stored session.
The very first one always seems to be the same, and some of the early ones are also fairly early, though not in the same place exactly, some are shifted ahead, the final one isn't the right one, more like 4/5 towards the end, where the final tabs are shifted to somewhere in the middle.
If I restore the same session again from History, they show up in the same misplaced order, so at least the system/bug is consistent.
I think all gets restored, but have so many tabs that's not easy to know if all of them are there though.
Two other small things:
1. The popup prompt "Drop Item to delete" seems to interfere with the scrollbar, so I have to mouse scroll near the bottom, the scrollbar also seems a bit glitchy sometimes locking to the mouse cursor, and it also seems awfully small, I think it could stand being a bit bigger, especially in width for ease-of-use.
2. I saved multiple sessions from the history just to be safe, and noticed that another saved tab pushed what is the first tab in both the browser and history into second place.
What's even weirder is that it's a different tab in each of the three saved sessions that's taking the first place. And none of them were pinned or anything, at least two of them should actually be near the end.
My only guess is that it's the tab I had open in the exact moment that the session was saved in history or something.Developer response
posted 5 years agoUpdated after user answer:
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation of the issue. I promise that I will go through each one and investigate it thoroughly to find the bug.
Regarding the other 2 issues:
1. The scrollbar is awfully small on purpose, let's just say by design (I thought that a non intrusive scroll bar is better because I expected most people to just use the mouse scroll )... of course, it doesn't have to be like that, it can be stupid small and I totally understand that. I will make sure to add an option to configure it to be just normal. Regarding the interference from the popup with the scrollbar... this one also on purpose because it looked a little out of place to move it near the scrollbar. Not really sure who to approach some things having in mind that there's no real solution to place everything on screen and not affect something else. I will think about it. The fact that the mouse can be glitchy sometimes... I'm afraid that can't be something from be but most probably from the addon popup window (if in the Tab View it doesn't happen then that's for sure)
2. Need to investigate that further, because it seems really weird
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Are you sure they are not just in reverse order ? Depending on certain Firefox setting each user has, tabs can be restored in reverse order or in the normal order (If for example you activated new tabs to be opened next to the current one or similar settings). This is not something I can control myself since each user can affect the order of the tabs. I just simply tell firefox to open all the links no matter how many they are. If there are 1000 tabs I tell Firefox to open all of them in the right order they were saved. I wish there was something wrong with the way the Addon was built but trust me there's really no issue. There can be multiple settings (from other addons or just Firefox settings) that can mess up what I tell the browser to do.
That's why I added the "Reverse restore order" feature in the Options. Please check that one to see if order will be preserved.
The addon knows to open even more than 10000 tabs, but depending on the number you want to open I'm not really sure if Firefox can really handle it (more exactly if the PC hardware can handle it the correct way). The thing is, if there's really a bug in the way Firefox opens 100 tabs when I tell him to do that I can't really do anything about that.
Anyway, I will investigate this again, but there's simply nothing wrong with the addon, I do what I must (I mean.. really... I go through every single tab and request Firefox to open it... it's not like I can't really do it properly), but if tabs are not opened then I probably have to check if there's any limitation regarding what the addon API can do, or if Firefox might miss some messages from the addon and I will try to find some workarounds.
Regarding your request to show the number of tabs next to each session. Yes, sorry about that, I will try to land it in the next update (the feature is planned but I kind forgot about it).
Regarding the rating, please have in consideration that there are extremely few people that really have hundred of tabs opened and restored so even you if are totally right the review might not be in line with most of the users. I really try to improve it constantly and even if I do something wrong I try to fix it right away. Having support from the community it's what drives me to continue to improve it :). Issues are fixable, but sadly bad ratings remain no matter what I do :(. No, I'm not asking to change your review, I just wanted to point out that it may not be a very accurate review for whoever intends to use the addon in the future. - Rated 5 out of 5by gican, 5 years ago