Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
45 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Aksarnerk, 3 days agoIt's a wonderful add-on. It has a very powerful interface that offers great flexibility.
Implementing the data store in the form of bookmarks is a great idea. It’s a major help in a world where no browser yet understands the concept of ubiquity, the importance of having a robust implementation of workspaces that allow us to maintain consistency across the many computers we might use.
I would just appreciate if it were able to save and restore the pinned status of the tabs. The data layer allows for this; Firefox bookmarks let you assign a tag like “*Pinned”, which in my opinion would be the ideal and most simple way to store this attribute.
It would also be great if we could open a Tab Stash group as a Firefox tab group, or even open a TS group in FF along with its sub-groups (at least the top-level ones; in this regard, TS far surpasses the capabilities of FF tab grouping), accurately reflecting this “tree” structure.
If these features exist, I haven't been able to find them.
In any case, it's fantastic; the kind of add-on you'll find hard to do without once you start using it. Thanks so much, Josh.Developer response
posted 13 hours agoThank you for the thoughtful and kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to write this up.
Regarding the pinned status, unfortunately Firefox does not expose any APIs for extensions to use to edit tags and keywords—there's no way for me to store metadata along with a bookmark outside its URL and title. I wish there were because there is a lot more that could be done, but this is unfortunately not an option.
Regarding tab groups, I agree with you—it's a feature I'm actively working on but isn't ready yet. Unfortunately, it's taking me quite a long time due to life getting in the way, and due to the fact that it is a major change to how Tab Stash works internally and how it communicates with Firefox. I also want to make sure I get the feature right and that it doesn't feel bolted-on to how the extension works. So it may take a while longer yet, but it'll happen eventually!
And again, thanks for the kind words, they mean a lot! I'm happy to hear Tab Stash is working well for you. And of course, feel free to reach out on GitHub if anything ever comes up. - Rated 4 out of 5by Doug, 3 months agoOverall, I liked it very much, was easy to use. HOWEVER, I just went through an upgrade fo Fedora, and related apps, and TAB STASH was removed as an extention in FireFox. As a result, I've lost all the TABS I specifically stashed to protect through the upgrade!
Developer response
posted 3 months agoNo idea why it would be removed in Firefox, unless the upgrade somehow completely wiped out your Firefox profile. But, assuming your profile (with all your other Firefox settings etc.) is still intact, your stashed tabs should still be there in your bookmarks! And you should still be able to reinstall Tab Stash from here and everything should continue to work. - Rated 4 out of 5by Nana, 8 months agoGreat app and EXACTLY what I needed as other tab management apps couldn't deliver in terms of management, separation and stability. That being said, I would really love it if there was another way to rescan for titles and headers AFTER importing tabs from URLs. Some of them seem to have failed as I was moving them and the only option to retry the scan is just to retrieve the icons (which it already has so the button does nothing.) Unfortunately, I don't have a github account to reach out with this complaint.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoThanks for the review! A quick hack for doing this is to open the tab that failed during the import, then click the yellow "Edit" button next to the stashed tab that appears when hovering over it, and clear out whatever title Tab Stash had given it before. Tab Stash will then pick up the title from the open tab.
Hope this helps! Developer response
posted a year agoGlad you like it! Unfortunately a Chrome port isn't likely any time soon because there are some unique Firefox capabilities that Tab Stash uses which just aren't available in Chrome. But I appreciate the interest!- Rated 4 out of 5by Melinda Josh, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by zomboid, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Pierrerodrigue, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Encore, 2 years agoMy only problem is that the Tab Stash allows you to save duplicates.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoTab Stash does allow duplicates, yes. It used to remove them, but in my experience, this caused some pretty surprising behavior that people were unhappy with (sometimes creating duplicates is intentional), so I haven't found a good way to bring this functionality back yet. Thanks for the comment though! - Rated 4 out of 5by jojojo, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by GenericUser, 2 years agoA bit buggy and slows down my browser (due to storing tabs as bookmarks but not fully closing the tab) turning the extension off and on fixes the browser. (turning off and on the extension also results in a hundred or so tabs of bookmarks being reopened but holding ctrl + w fixes that quick issue) (I think this may just be due to a limitation of the browser or some kind of bug)
Developer response
posted 2 years agoTab Stash uses Firefox's built-in tab-hiding feature to hide stashed tabs instead of closing them entirely. This allows the tab state to be preserved (vs. closing the tab, which loses all the state). If you accumulate too many hidden tabs, Tab Stash will unload them to make sure your browser doesn't slow down.
If you find this bothersome, you can change Tab Stash's settings so that tabs are entirely closed instead of hidden. There is also a "middle ground" option to unload hidden tabs immediately, so they remain open but don't use any resources.
Hope this helps! - Rated 4 out of 5by LiberaEspero, 2 years agoСвои задачи прекрасно выполняет, хотя ещё и не совершенно. Функций побольше, чем может показаться на первый взгляд. Однако многие из них придётся поискать, потому что документация, к сожалению, далеко не так хороша, как само расширение.
Не забывайте про зажатый ctrl, с ним можно выбирать и стакать несколько вкладок, а не мучаться с сохранением по одной или только папками/всеми открытыми.
Ещё из недостатков:
- Отсутствует перевод. Если с английским у вас сложно, для чтения документации придётся воспользоваться переводчиком или пробовать всё методом тыка, что, кстати, более чем выход, т. к. базовых функций немного.
- Вложенные папки (nested folders) работают ещё не очень хорошо. Точнее, сами папки более чем, а вот добавление в них новых ссылок пока что требует раскрыть содержимое папки, что не всегда удобно. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5905964, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by aforest, 2 years agoThis is an excellent add-on with a great UI and the ability to import and export to multiple formats with zero lock-in. The only thing I find missing is the ability do disable the address bar button which I only click by accident and don't really find useful.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoFirefox unfortunately removed this option recently, but I'll look into whether it's possible to offer in Tab Stash itself. Thanks for the suggestion! - Rated 4 out of 5by thunder_dream, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Josh, 2 years agoNice Add-On... quite helpful in many ways... some very neat ways... however, a lot of trial & error experimenting is needed to realize the depth of capabilities in TAB STASH.
A fully developed "HOW TO BEST USE TAB STASH" with all How TO in one, organized location, would make things a lot easier.
For example, using the new SubGroups capability, for which we are all grateful, is less than intuitive (at least for me & a couple of others), it would be nice to get an overview of how it works. Thanks.Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for your comments! Definitely agree that some experimentation is required to get the most out of Tab Stash, and it's not always intuitive how to use it (a thing I am constantly working at improving).
I'll keep your suggestion of a how-to in mind! - Rated 4 out of 5by Luke, 2 years agoReally great, would love to be able to customise how/where the folder of tabs is saved though, rather than going Other Bookmarks > Tab Stash > saved-timestamp. Let me specify location and name either in options with rules, or as I hit the button, and it'd let me organise my tabs into bookmarks just perfectly. Still, very good! Much better than OneTab and other solutions for getting tabicitis under control and saving them to bookmarks. Finally someone did it!
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks for the feedback and the kind words! I'll keep your note about rules in mind for the future. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18142251, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Djunbao, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Simita Norbert, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by A., 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by MaCool, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Najiluj, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Umbrus, 3 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 3 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 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14556372, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by donewithusernames, 3 years ago