Reviews for Tabs Aside
Tabs Aside by Tim Weißenfels
31 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cris, 7 years agoI like it very much! Good replacement for Panorama, thank you!
It would be nice if there were other ways to display the saved tabs (e.g. thumbnails) in the sidebar. - Rated 5 out of 5by likivik, 7 years ago1. A huge Thank You!!!
Does what it promises, useful, looks good on a panel, saved tabs can be viewed from mobile(yay!). Overall great for people like me, who go on searching spree, open a bunch of tabs, and need/want to use browser for something else entirely, but don't want to lose their research:) Priceless stuff.
2. I Really hope you'll continue development. (All those folks who were using OneTab before WebExtentions will jump on this).
You've already done an amazing job, so just in case you'll be adding more functionality, would be nice to have:
a) Open, reorder, delete individual tabs in a session and reorder sessions themselves
This actually can be achieved simply using Bookmarks, so maybe just a link to the Tabs Aside folder would be enough(I don't actually know if that's achievable tho)
b) Option to choose default behavior of "Restore Session" (Either it deletes by default, like now, or instead deletes with 'ctrl')Developer response
posted 7 years agoUpdate: I just submitted v1.13 which allows you to choose a default behavior for "Restore Session" in the addon options
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Thanks for the review. Yes I will continue development.
As far as I know it is not currently possible to open the bookmarks sidebar or the bookmark window programmatically. I was hoping for a simple solution like that as well.
I am planning to add some configurable options, a default behavior for "Restore Session" is a great idea for that, I will definitely add that. - Rated 5 out of 5by AYoungDuk13, 7 years ago*Updated for version 1.10 on 2017-11-29:
THis project is under active development, which is always reassuring. Since my previous reviews, the author has added helpful new user tool-tips and added some polish.
Like some, I have been looking for a WebExtensions successor for OneTab. This application handles the basic premise of "Click to save all tabs from a window, and later restore them to a window". This extension calls its grouping of tabs "sessions" and it uses a provided Firefox sidebar to show you your saved tab groups as collapsible lists.
Overall it handles this basic functionality really well and cleanly; it is much better than the others I have tried. The provided Tab Sidebar is a new part of the project that the author is building on, but I cannot speak to what plans there are to expand the functionality in the future. For those wanting a detailed explanation about the current functionality, I will expand below, but the short of it is: the extension's provided sidebar (Tab Sidebar) allows restores of entire sessions, as well as renaming the sessions, but currently you won't be able to further organize the sessions or the sessions' tabs within this sidebar - you can however do this from the Bookmark Sidebar, now noted in the tool tips. Within the Bookmark Sidebar you can also handle organization of the sessions and sort/move/delete individual tabs.
I will mention that I still think this add-on could be used to build out a complete, featureful tab manager that rivals/surpasses what OneTab originally did. The main potential bonus I can see is it's integration into Firefox bookmarks and Sync. Because it ties into the bookmark system, this should allow a user to sync the sessions through their browsers. Note, I personally haven't tested this, but it should be possible. Potentially even on mobile too!
I think this add-on is worthy of a 5/5 rating on its own, where the main intent was for a simple/clean implementation. As the developer commented to me, it was orginally intended as a simple implementation, and it does this really well!
For more details about my description, what this extension appears to do is create a bookmark folder, and when you save a new session, it adds the session tabs within a new sub-folder. I think this approach is rather clever, with some real potential benefits, a-la Firefox Sync, where this folder structure and session-folder bookmarks could be shared between browsers. In general though, from the bookmarks sidebar (or bookmarks manager window) you are able to reorganize the the folder order (the session folders are shown in reverse order to how they are listed in the Tabs Aside folder), and you are able reorganize bookmarks/tabs within (and between) these folders. In fact, I could see some power users preferring to use this add-on as a method of quickly creating sessions, and then using their own bookmark manager for organization (ie the bookmark sidebar).
Currently, the extension's Tab Sidebar is tied into the behavior of the session creation. When you save a session, it opens the Tab Sidebar, makes the new session list, closes the tabs, and opens a new tab page. A couple of configuration options here could really help allow users to make this part of the experience as personally efficient as possible.
For future feature requests, I think being able to further handle organization from within this Tab Sidebar would be really slick, ie changing their order, and being able to sort/move/restore individual tabs (like OneTab did). You could even start building in some of the extra features like "staring"/pinning sessions that OneTab had, while still utilizing Firefox's underlying bookmark system to allow these things to sync across machines.
Just wanted to tell the developer, great job here. I wanted to take the time for this long review and to personally contribute financially because of the hard work done, and hope others will contribute as well. I think this has the potential to be the best Bookmark/Tab Session manager we've seen to date, and can't wait to see what you plan to do with it!
Past reviews:
1.7 Review
https://pastebin.com/wqJebekPDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoThanks again for your lengthy review. The sidebar has room for improvement and I have some ideas for that, including session reordering via drag and drop. Unfortunately that has to wait a bit since I am currently working on version 2.0. This next major version will extend the session functionality quite a bit.
Thanks for your support :) - Rated 5 out of 5by ss12345, 7 years agoThe extension is very good and works with Firefox sync. I would like to see an email address available for sending feedback and asking questions in the future. It would be nice to be able to open individual tabs from a session rather than forcing the user to open the entire window. Also, alternate views, like a single list organized by name would be nice too. All in all, great job producing a reliable add on.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for your review. Suggestions & dicussion: https://github.com/tim-we/tabs-aside/issues
Further questions: timw-public[at]outlook[dot]com
As of v1.13 it is possible to open individual tabs from a session.
As for the layout there is definitely room for improvement: https://github.com/tim-we/tabs-aside/issues/4 - Rated 5 out of 5by Geo, 7 years agoThis is the real deal for complete and reliable tabs storage. The new side bar works so smooth and Tabs Aside! just puts the cherry on the cake.
Thank you!