Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
234 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14403193, 6 years agoGreat extension! Note: the tabs are saved in the correct order, but are restored in the wrong order. Can you fix this?
PS: Yes, I am using the latest version (v3.1.0). Sometimes some of the tabs from the beginning were saved to the end of the list. Tabs are almost always restored in the reverse order. This is a minor inconvenience, the addition is excellent. But if you manage to fix the problem with the reverse order, it will be great!Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for review.
Are you sure you're using the latest version (v3.1.0) ? Because I know for sure that I fixed this problem a while ago and I can't really seem to replicate it on my end no matter how much I try. The order you see them in the list (top-down) should be the exact order of tabs. I know that Firefox somehow saves a list of bookmarks in reverse order but if they are saved correctly I make sure that the order in which I open the tabs is that one. I will look into it more but I verified and unless there's a strange bug happening the latest version should have fixed that. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13611860, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14386290, 6 years agoSimply amazing. Definitely best session manager add-on in the extension shop, currently.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ikofen, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14356539, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14353432, 6 years agoUser does not have the ability to select and delete multiple links in the session.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14350166, 6 years agoBrillant idea to sync tabs as bookmarks. simple, reliable and portable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14316172, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14315579, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by The Beard Below My Chin, 6 years agoBrilliant add-on.
A problem: Firefox 63 can't resize the popup, it's small and cuts off view of data. This wasn't an issue before.
Update: Just tried it on a fresh profile and I experience this behavior after I opted to "Pin to Overflow Menu".Developer response
posted 6 years agoUpdate: Sadly... if you put into the Overflow Menu that's expected. Sadly Firefox blocks the size of the pop-up there to fit that specific menu width. I know it's stupid but it's not something I can do... it's the say Mozilla decided to implement it and there's simply no way to do anything there. Just make sure that the addon button is pinned to the addon toolbar (right after the URL bar) and not in the overflow menu. The same goes for max size... it's 800 by 600 pixels at most ... just because that's the hard limit Mozilla imposes for addons, not because I like it, and as well... there's simply nothing I can do about it.
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There should be no problem at all with Firefox 63. I have Firefox 63 on multiple devices and can't seem to reproduce this. Of course, there can be multiple causes for this but most probably it's not the addon fault (sometimes the profile can be at fault, though I really don't know what exactly might cause this).
Have you tried changing the size from the config as well (Config-> Options -> UI Scaling) or just using the resize handle ? If you still encounter problems and have any more details better contact me directly (Options->Feedback, it should open the mail).
Thanks for the feedback. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12721873, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13454242, 6 years agoLove it! Only thing I can imagine needing to be added is option to open sessions in private windows, if possible. Thank you for the add-on it is superb!
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the nice review. Yes, that's a really good idea. I will definitely add this option in the next update. Thanks for feedback. - Rated 5 out of 5by oxk4r, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Grigorij, 6 years agoAfter "Tab Mix Plus" - Sessions Sync is the first one which I like. Great job! Thanks.
My wishes is to make some features:
- possibility to change background of the popup window
- make the restoring process in the same tab, not new oneDeveloper response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review.
- The background feature... Yes I will definitely do that (as it's already on the feature list: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync/issues/40 ).
- I'm afraid I don't really understand this issue. Are you sure it's not in the options.
- Session can be restored in the same Window or a New Window
- Tabs can be restored in the same tab / new tab / new window
If you mean the action when you click you can actually decide the action from the addon option (default is New Tab but you can switch to open a bookmark in same tab from the options)
Hope I didn't misunderstood something but in case I did please provide a little more details about the requested feature and I might be able to implement it in a future update. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13400193, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 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.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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13528904, 6 years agoIt works great so far. I like the UI, workflow feels natural. Please keep this going!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chubyone, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SlalomEngineer, 6 years ago
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review. Just used translate to understand the review :D (sadly I don't know Chinese). 谢谢- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14205544, 6 years agoThis is without a doubt the best session manager for Firefox, and I've tried them all. I've been looking for a good session manager that compares to Session Buddy for Chrome. The tab view is especially nice!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14205445, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14072894, 6 years agoJust nice, Popover view, Window view, Tab view, AND FREE Licensed, just what I want.
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Edit 10/29/2018:
Could be improved:
- There's no way to delete multiple links or sessions.
- Stored as bookmarks makes recent bookmarks full-filled with these bookmarks, which looks annoying.. It would be better if user can choose whether sessions store as bookmarks.Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review. Glad that you like it, as regarding the 2 issues.
1. When it comes to graphics I bet it's not that easy to find a good set of icons that will please everyone. Most probably I will try to integrate the possibility to select from a bunch of predefined icons and who knows... at some point (If I find the time to do it) even let users load their own icons.
2. I don't remember having any serious issues with Firefox bookmark syncing but I know there are reported cases when it might not work as expected (although they should be mostly solved lately). Providing a custom solution for bookmark syncing does not make much sense right now as there are already a few alternative solutions out there. I will integrate at some point an option to import/export bookmarks through JSON but this won't really solve the sync problem.
Thanks again for taking the time to leave the feedback. Sadly, I can only promise I will do something about only for the first solution.