Reviews for Tab Session Manager
Tab Session Manager by sienori
Review by ExplodingCore
Rated 4 out of 5
by ExplodingCore, 9 years agoI really like this add-on because I can use it on FF57+ and it's compatible with Tree Style Tabs.
I have to say though currently I find myself rarely really using it besides for saving the one session that i have every few minutes.
Main reason for that is the restore behavior. Like someone else already mentioned, when you restore a session it opens a new window and loads every single tab of the session.
Loading as in actually opening and displaying each webpage.
It would be much better to have it open the tabs "unloaded" like when you initially start FF.
Next thing would be a few more options and functionalities.
- Prompt me for a session to load on start.
- Make sessions more like dynamic savestates, so i can overwrite them. E.g. I have a session 'General'. When I load that the manager should "know" that the session is loaded and later when the window is closed or the session saved it should save the changes that were made during the session was loaded into that same session state.
Right now you can only save a new session with same name but different timestamp.
- Give option to only save current window or a selection of windows to a specified session. So one can work with multiple sessions at the same time.
- Give option to load session to current window or open in new window / attach to current session or open as independently loaded session.
- use standard UI font
- introduce groups
- save and restore per tab history
With all of this it would be perfect (and basically a clone of legacy add-on "Session Manager")
I know it's a lot to ask and some things aren't even possible yet due to Mozilla not releasing the needed API.
I have to say though currently I find myself rarely really using it besides for saving the one session that i have every few minutes.
Main reason for that is the restore behavior. Like someone else already mentioned, when you restore a session it opens a new window and loads every single tab of the session.
Loading as in actually opening and displaying each webpage.
It would be much better to have it open the tabs "unloaded" like when you initially start FF.
Next thing would be a few more options and functionalities.
- Prompt me for a session to load on start.
- Make sessions more like dynamic savestates, so i can overwrite them. E.g. I have a session 'General'. When I load that the manager should "know" that the session is loaded and later when the window is closed or the session saved it should save the changes that were made during the session was loaded into that same session state.
Right now you can only save a new session with same name but different timestamp.
- Give option to only save current window or a selection of windows to a specified session. So one can work with multiple sessions at the same time.
- Give option to load session to current window or open in new window / attach to current session or open as independently loaded session.
- use standard UI font
- introduce groups
- save and restore per tab history
With all of this it would be perfect (and basically a clone of legacy add-on "Session Manager")
I know it's a lot to ask and some things aren't even possible yet due to Mozilla not releasing the needed API.
1,231 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by OMIDT, 7 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, 9 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, 12 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18514632, 14 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, 16 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, 21 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Altus, a month 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Erick, 2 months 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, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Robin0790, 3 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, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19841410, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19841400, 4 months ago