Reviews for Tab Session Manager
Tab Session Manager by sienori
Review by Michael Rabinovsky
Rated 4 out of 5
by Michael Rabinovsky, 2 years agoI've used this addon for many years and I honestly love it, but I found an issue that unfortunately I cannot overlook at work- it doesn't save history. If you don't need your history after closing the browser, then this is a 5-star addon. Previously, I gave it three stars because I couldn't use it at work, and rarely needed it at home. I updated it to four stars because I found a workaround. If you make sure every tab is loaded, and logged in, or gracefully logged out, and set it to not auto open the latest session, you can open every website, log in, then load your last session. Your tabs will load correctly, which usually means you don't need your history.
This is the explanation I previously wrote about my issues and the lower rating: The default Firefox session manager saves the history of every tab, which is incredibly important for me, but it also leaves me between a rock and a hard place. I have to use cloud software for work. It logs you out periodically. When you sign in, it will usually resume where you were; however, when you restart your browser, it resets the session, and after you log in, it lands you on the main page. If you have your tab history, you can navigate back to the page you were on; otherwise, you're stuck with 50 (to sometimes 200) useless tabs, and a mess trying to figure out what you were doing. On the other hand, the Firefox session manager can save only one session and is incredibly inconsistent; it's a coin flip whether it will work after a crash, and the only way to guarantee a session is saved is by killing Firefox from the task manager. If you sign out of your Windows account, restart, or your OS crashes, and you forget or are unable to kill Firefox from the task manager, you're completely screwed.
This is the explanation I previously wrote about my issues and the lower rating: The default Firefox session manager saves the history of every tab, which is incredibly important for me, but it also leaves me between a rock and a hard place. I have to use cloud software for work. It logs you out periodically. When you sign in, it will usually resume where you were; however, when you restart your browser, it resets the session, and after you log in, it lands you on the main page. If you have your tab history, you can navigate back to the page you were on; otherwise, you're stuck with 50 (to sometimes 200) useless tabs, and a mess trying to figure out what you were doing. On the other hand, the Firefox session manager can save only one session and is incredibly inconsistent; it's a coin flip whether it will work after a crash, and the only way to guarantee a session is saved is by killing Firefox from the task manager. If you sign out of your Windows account, restart, or your OS crashes, and you forget or are unable to kill Firefox from the task manager, you're completely screwed.
1,231 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by OMIDT, 4 days agoVery High CPU usage on many tabs.
Other wise is amazing tools i am using all the time. because of this issue i have to disable it and enable all the time to avoid my CPU fan go crazy. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17633691, 6 days agoGarbage extension. Can not find specific previous session. UI absolutely terrible. I can not emphasize how much I hate this PoS software. Uninstalling.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Benjamin, 9 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18514632, 10 days agoCloud sync is broken, infinite loading (Same thing like GitHub issue 1451). Suggested fix to delete all data does not work.
May work well for local-only use. But extension explicitly advertises cloud sync feature. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20033380, 13 days agoDo not use this on browsers with multiple workspaces like Floorp - it moves all the tabs to one workspace, rendering the extension worse than useless.
- Rated 3 out of 5by jojojo, 18 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Altus, 24 days agoThe addon is not bad, at first glance. He copes with the assigned tasks, BUT very frequent begging for money (donations) is very annoying. I even started writing down the dates when the internal "thank the author" timer went off.
07 06 2026, 15 06 2026, 29 06 2026, 02 07 2026
And I was just opening a window to clear saved sessions. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20008329, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by AlexOja, a month agoSoliciting money all the time. Clunky. Sync tends to clutter everything because default settings haven't been thought through well enough. Does work pretty well, but if you're going to bug me for donations all the time, I'll just uninstall.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19981370, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Erick, a month agoCan you add local support for the addon to remember spit view tabs? thanks
- Rated 4 out of 5by Katherine Howell, 2 months agoOne of the best extensions I've installed. Simple, effective, and doesn't bloat the browser at all.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Michelle Pineda, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cmky2x, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Robin0790, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pablo, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by kone, 3 months agoBetter than Firefox's built-in backup, but unnecessarily complicated!
I don't see the point of many of the features. Unfortunately, there's no help section to clarify this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mimrix, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14498287, 3 months agoFrom the volume of open issues and the lack of activity on Git, It looks like Sienori has either abandoned this extension or doesn't have the time to maintain it. April 26.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19841411, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19841410, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19841400, 3 months ago