Reviews for OneTab
OneTab by OneTab Team
Review by FaeGiN
Rated 1 out of 5
by FaeGiN, 4 years agoWell after reading many reviews, which I strongly urge YOU to do before touching this, I went against my better judgement and thought Id install it and just give it a test run whilst making sure to back up anything I relied on OneTab to handle for me. So I am one of those guys who has anything from 101 tabs to 550 tabs open pretty much all of the time! Yes I know it seems dumb, hogs memory, slows firefox down, drains the system RAM over time...etc, etc, etc but thats what I do because I am a bit scatty and I so often am not finished with reading or going down that particular thought train and really want to continue with it at some point. And so I leave another tab open, planning to revisit. I do admit that my current tab count of 514 is a bit over stupid and I will be culling that number after I submit this review.
So what was my experience? It was not great I can tell you. It resembled what I had read about in manymreviews. In a nutshell: OneTab saved hundreds of tabs as advertised and then when restoring....well, it just didnt! it was as if I had asked it to restore a selection of random links out of the list of over 300 it had made. As if I'd asked it to randomly pick ANY of the links and restore them but only restore less than 50 , one time it reached towards 100 so I was becoming happier hehe. But not happy.
This is DANGEROUS and should come with a warning to expect data loss!!
As I said, I took precautions. I simply created (...or 'saved' I think I should call it, a ne??(w session which is just using the session manager to give me a back up of all of the tabs that were open before I did anything drastic like trust an addon to do what it promised and handle some tab urls and restore them when asked to. Luckily, session manager works great...so does firefox sync, which was my secondary backup I suppose cos I had just sync'd my open tabs and sent them to other firefox open on my other PC and my laptop!
Well dear reader, if there still are any at this point, I want to leave you with some predictable advice so, here goes..l
Please Dont Bother With This!
I dont think it is ready for Prime time. Not quite yet. Too unpredictable for now and too risky for your data to be handled by and trusted with.
If you must have a go then be smart: Do some backup like my method.
DON'T LOSE DATA
*longest review I ever did write
So what was my experience? It was not great I can tell you. It resembled what I had read about in manymreviews. In a nutshell: OneTab saved hundreds of tabs as advertised and then when restoring....well, it just didnt! it was as if I had asked it to restore a selection of random links out of the list of over 300 it had made. As if I'd asked it to randomly pick ANY of the links and restore them but only restore less than 50 , one time it reached towards 100 so I was becoming happier hehe. But not happy.
This is DANGEROUS and should come with a warning to expect data loss!!
As I said, I took precautions. I simply created (...or 'saved' I think I should call it, a ne??(w session which is just using the session manager to give me a back up of all of the tabs that were open before I did anything drastic like trust an addon to do what it promised and handle some tab urls and restore them when asked to. Luckily, session manager works great...so does firefox sync, which was my secondary backup I suppose cos I had just sync'd my open tabs and sent them to other firefox open on my other PC and my laptop!
Well dear reader, if there still are any at this point, I want to leave you with some predictable advice so, here goes..l
Please Dont Bother With This!
I dont think it is ready for Prime time. Not quite yet. Too unpredictable for now and too risky for your data to be handled by and trusted with.
If you must have a go then be smart: Do some backup like my method.
DON'T LOSE DATA
*longest review I ever did write
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Christopher, 11 days agoStarted using this extension in Chrome years ago - it quickly became my most used/recommended extension. So much that it's availability was a requirement for my transition to Firefox as my primary browser. This is one of 3 extensions that I won't be without! Eagerly awaiting the Firefox release of the new UI!
- Rated 5 out of 5by 杨欣辉, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12765055, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19678951, 17 days agoBig fan of this extension! Helps me keep my tabs organized without feeling like I'll forget about them if I don't keep them open.
Great work! - Rated 5 out of 5by Basilioss, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18833463, 21 days agoETA on new UI? Beta test?
EDIT: Awesome, thanks for the update and quick response!Developer response
posted 20 days agoThe only reason there is no beta for Firefox is that it's not possible to release a version to a small percentage of users in the Add-Ons directory. We are very close to a Firefox release, almost certainly before the end of the month. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19663683, 25 days agoI would love the Option to decide how the exported URLs are named. Right now it is "link" | "name of the video" I'd like the option to remove the name completely´and have only the links OR/AND to have the option to add certain namings to all of them (e.g. something like from JDownloader2 with "name of the Video " which means at the end there would always be the Username of the link. Otherwise just a wonderful Extension! Great Work!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Usketh, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SAFETY, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tom, a month agoI'm writing this on my phone while I wait for the extension to restore all the tabs in my PC (so that I can delete the extension).
I expected it to be bad but I decided to give it a try since it was a recommended extension. I certainly didn't expect it to hog all my RAM and make my system unusableDeveloper response
posted a month agoHi, I'm guessing you tried to restore hundreds or even thousands of tabs all at once. In the upcoming version (v2.4+, coming in the next few weeks) there is new option to restore tabs in an "unloaded" state, so that Firefox does not try to load each web page. For others that are confused: it's not OneTab that is hogging all of your RAM, it's the huge number of pages you decided to restore all at once that is causing this issue. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14188979, a month agoI eventually got it to collect all open tabs into one but it did not allow to restore them again. Cleared all, restarted pc and the same thing. Seems it does not work that well
Developer response
posted a month agoHi, this is strange - please contact us at one-tab.com/feedback so we can help diagnose the issue. There must be some kind of edge case happening here, because the ability to click on tabs in OneTab to restore them is such core functionality that it's very strange that it isn't working for you. - Rated 3 out of 5by AkashiNeko, a month agoWhen restoring all, there is no way to differentiate by group
Developer response
posted a month agoHi, in the upcoming version (v2.4+), there is full support for Firefox tab groups. - Rated 1 out of 5by jojojo, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Secure Fox, a month agoGood. But, when storing an ever increasing list of tabs, it hogs resources and bogs down FF. Disabling or exporting the list is the only solution. When you click the OneTab icon it sends ALL tabs to OneTab. No one wants that. Remove this feature immediately. WTF
- Rated 1 out of 5by nothingforyou, a month agowhy does this extension constantly duplicate itself? without fail it will show up as two of itself running in the task bar, one of them will work and one will not. It can only be fixed by uninstalling the addon. This has happened easily 6+ times, this is reoccurring and repeatable.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14202319, 2 months agoWhy do all the links I've saved always disappear suddenly and randomly?
- Rated 4 out of 5by BrainOnEggs, 2 months ago"Gee, I wonder what all this commotion for the UI in chrome version of this extension is about... Well, I might as well go check it out on one of my old chromium browsers..."
"Oh."
In all seriousness, I'm a tab hoarder. A rather chronic one at that, so when I discovered OneTab years ago, I never looked back. Love the extension.
I've had minor gripes in the past, namely with the UI(though this gripe is sure to be a thing of the past with the next update) and how importing and exporting is only a clipboard thing, rather than the ability to download a file, but those gripes were ultimately, just minor gripes. Nothing for me to fuss over in any real capacity, barring maybe one issue that I've only just encountered a few days ago. (Said issue seems to be fixed in the new update, so it's a moot problem.)
Frankly, the only reason I'm giving 4 stars is because I now know the new UI, which is on its way, so I'll probably up the star count when it does arrive.
Until then, this extension is near perfect, and a must have if you hoard tabs. Even with the old UI. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13745328, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alex K, 2 months agoHi, after enabling this extension, Firefox stops opening pages or loads them very slowly after some time. Restarting the browser temporarily fixes it. I experienced this issue on my Mac, and after Firefox Sync installed the same extension on my Windows laptop, the exact same problem started happening there as well. Please fix
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 10319119, 2 months agoThe Firefox version will get 5-stars once it gets updated to version 2.x and includes some of the newer features found there.
EDIT: (reply)
Awesome to hear, waiting with fierce anticipation!Developer response
posted 2 months agoThat version is a beta that isn't released to existing users yet on any browser. But, it will be ready soon, and then it'll be available on Firefox. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10757440, 2 months agoI install this addon in every browser of mine that I ever use. It's a shame the FF version appears to be years out of date as it's my main browser.
The Chrome version UI is very nice, and considering I use this addon daily, I'd love to have those latest features.Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi, thanks, the new version is still in beta. We're still improving and simplifying it. It will soon be released to all Chrome and Firefox users. - Rated 5 out of 5by Recsha, 2 months agoI truly love this add-on. OneTab has been so useful for me. Yes, yes, I admit, I leave way too many tabs open. I love being able to just close them up and send them to a clean tab list, and I think it's great that it shows the full description of each tab. The ability to export them is also a great feature.
I hope lots of people install OneTab, to be honest, because I kind of need this add-on to keep existing and thriving. I'm slightly selfishly writing this review partially because I'm kind of reliant on OneTab now, so I need it to be successful.
Seriously, though, it runs perfectly and is very smooth for me, on more than one browser, so I don't really understand the comments from some other reviews.
If the team wants to respond here on how I can even support OneTab further, please do... I'm honestly addicted to this feature now, and I can't go back to life when I didn't have it...! - Rated 5 out of 5by Gerry, 3 months agoI've used this app for years now and it is simple but perfect for anybody who just wants a recycle bin for their tabs.
In a single click it delete all my tabs, but in a way where I can recover any of them easily. This is the perfect solution to tab bloat. They built the perfect extension and then left it alone. Well done. :clap: