Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
486 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13510243, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by foreteller, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Achi, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Umbrus, 2 years agoThis looks to be a really good replacement for some other tab management addons/extensions I've used, but it has one major issue: It can only read tabs from the current window. This is an issue for me, as I often have 4-5 browser windows open, each with 10+ tabs. That said, this extension does not appear to focused on tab management as much as it solely focused on *saving* tabs, and for that it functions incredibly well.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the review and the feedback! You're absolutely right that Tab Stash is a little different from other tab managers in that it's more focused on clearing away tabs and getting them into a place where they can be organized.
That said, there's an open feature request for showing tabs from all windows, and it's something I do want to implement eventually. If you're on GitHub, you can subscribe to it to be notified of new developments: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues/314 - Rated 5 out of 5by elqnny, 2 years agoThis extension is very useful for me, it's simple and has all the features I needed, thanks.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoMy pleasure, happy to hear it's working well for you! Thanks for the review! - Rated 5 out of 5by Evan, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17528229, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14508483, 2 years agoIf you click on this add on right after you quit firefox, you are doomed.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoSorry to hear you're having trouble. I'd like to help, but I'm afraid I can't provide support in review comments. Please open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to take a look. - Rated 5 out of 5by n0TfiX, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by seanfire99, 2 years agoNot Working for LibreWolf side bar is blank cant access tabs but can stash them just can't use it.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoSorry to hear you're having trouble. I saw your bug report—unfortunately, if the browser gets into a bad state, there's really nothing Tab Stash can do about it. I'm glad to hear you were able to resolve the issue by clearing your session data.
https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues/332#issuecomment-1434106821 - Rated 5 out of 5by suid0, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17734876, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14556372, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13462464, 2 years agoJust start using it. It's excellent. Keep up the good work and thanks. N
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arthur, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dlh, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17749179, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by MrAngelus, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13366226, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 游元, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mistress Of Universes, 2 years agoI've been using this for about a year now and it is probably my favorite add-on ever. It's so nice being able to just push all of the tabs out of the way when I need a clean slate but also recall them individually or as a group at any time.
I also absolutely love the most recent update where the tab icon spins around when a recalled tab loads in! It's so cute!!!Developer response
posted 2 years agoI like the spinny icon too! I actually can't take all the credit for it; the first version was contributed by a user, and I tweaked it a little bit in the latest release.
In any case, I'm happy to hear you're enjoying Tab Stash! Thanks for coming back after a year to leave a review, I really appreciate it. :) - Rated 3 out of 5by Gemini62167, 2 years agoHmmmm. I so wanted to like this add-on. On the surface it provided a very easy way to organize tabs while not having to specifically bookmark them. You could create separate categories for each group of tabs you had set aside. Such a nice feature.
However, the reason for the low rating is despite how useful it could be theoretically, it really was a CPU hog. I cannot count how many times I had to force quit out of Firefox because Tab Stash was so hungry, my whole computer would die to a crawl. And if that couldn't be done I would have to resort to restarting.
It took me a while to figure out what it was that was causing this. When I discovered that Tab Stash was behind it all I then shut it down and with that everything returned to normal. But I was pretty disappointed in this. As the add-on really made life easier when it worked.
I thought that when tabs were stashed aside, they not only became inactive but were automatically turned off or unloaded so as to free up memory as well as release itself from eating up CPU. But despite there being numerous ways to set Tab Stash to do just that, it really didn't seem to have any noticeable effect. I gave up after being held up one too many times and having no choice but to restart my machine. There are just days when I have no time to mess around with things that make themselves more of a problem then they solve, and it was one of those days, so I ditched it. And with that, my system went back to normal, I was able to scoot about on the net as before, and outside of losing all my stashed tabs (so I thought) I could carry on in my normal fashion.
Later, I discovered that Tab Stash is nothing more than a clever UI that deposits all those stashed tabs in its own bookmark folder it creates within the Mozilla Bookmarks Menu.
Having discovered that, I simply continued to use that bookmark folder opened in the side bar where Tab Stash once sat. A simple Ctl-D and I can stash my tabs in that same folder, and then do with them what I wish at a later time. Sure, it doesn't have all the pretty functions up front, but I needed Tab Stash to do the most basic of things, which actually was the primary purpose for such an add-on in the first place. Failing that, I found doing it the old fashioned way utilizing Firefox's side bar, sufficed AND without hogging up CPU or decimating the memory.
Sometimes simple is best.Developer response
posted 2 years agoSorry to hear you were having CPU trouble that may have been caused by Tab Stash. In general, Tab Stash is designed to handle extremely large stashes efficiently (I know of users who have tens of thousands of stashed tabs with no problems), so I'm quite surprised to hear it's not performing well for you.
I'd like to find out more, e.g. exactly what situations led to the high CPU usage, so that I can get to the bottom of whatever is going on. Please feel free to open an issue on GitHub to discuss further: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues/new/choose - Rated 4 out of 5by donewithusernames, 2 years ago