Tabs Aside by Tim Weißenfels

4.2 Stars out of 5

Review by akhil

I really like the set aside feature in edge, Tabs Aside is the extension that came close to set aside feature. I think that there is a lot of room for improvement. When I Click show sessions it minimizes all the sessions except the first one, It may be intentional but I would really like an option for turning off auto minimizing. And it is not visually appealing compared to set aside in edge, I mean showing a thumbnail would be a lot nicer if not just the icon of the website.
And also It feels somewhat tedious to always use mouse for using tabs aside, I would really appreciate keyboard shortcuts. Files in the computer are not being set aside, I would request you to make that as an option as well (a little check mark for setting aside files in the computer)
One more thing I just remembered, the session numbers are always increasing, please look into that.

Developer response

posted 7 years ago

Update 1/24/2018: I just submitted v1.17 and you can now turn off auto-minimizing.

Thanks for your review. I agree with pretty much everything you said there. Unfortunately the API does not allow creating tabs with privileged URLs, that includes file:/// URLs (local files). Those tabs could be set aside but not restored. Therefore I decided not set them aside at all. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/create)

The next version (v1.17) will include an option to not auto-minimize sessions.

Any specific ideas for keyboard shortcuts? Please let me know: https://github.com/tim-we/tabs-aside/issues/7

I do not see a good way to implement thumbnails. If anyone has good idea of how to implement this please let me know: https://github.com/tim-we/tabs-aside/issues/4
Suggestions and contributions (this is an open source project after all) would be greatly appreciated.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback & suggestions.