Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
Review by Firefox user 15240182
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 15240182, 5 years agoI want to give 5 stars but i docked one ONLY because of slight irritation with how Tab Stash comes 'out of the box' once installed. I admit, to be fair, I did not read any of the help information (which is fantastic that the creator even included it in this day and age for tech) but I have been trying to see how intuitive the plugin is without guidance (the hallmark of good code/design IMO). I think that the code runs beautifully and do not anticipate any 'hiccups' occurring with the functionality of how the code works from as far as my novice understanding of webdev can comprehend. The issue lays for me with the design/placement of certain buttons. I have accidentally deleted new groups/directories because -- upon dragging the tab menu out to make bigger -- when clicking the arrow (right) for the drop down menu button. the padding (I think) is off or at least, made dissimilar from the previous point the button was located on the layout, prior, to expanding the view of the menu, thus, I make multiple clicks (i assume this may affect users with a trackball mouse more because the mouse pointer is more liable to make unwanted small/subtle movements related to the movement of the person's thumb) which are off point, then, accidently hit the scroll wheel, and bam! Kicked my frustration up a notch. becasue groups with only a single item have the red 'x' located below the groups 'open/close' arrow button; therefore, if you click to fast and uncarefully, in an expanded menu view, the the mouse is likely to hover unknowingly over the link below, right on the 'close' button and thus deletes the entire group -- the other problem, this could be mitigated by having an optional* popup menu for this "are you sure you want to delete this group?" or maybe instead of an arrow, make the entire group label, in list view, always closed until opened, by clicking the label, which is more button 'real-estate' requiring less strain on my eyes to find the small buttons which are kind of lost in the thin default font which stacks all of the links open very fast into a mess for my eyes to sort out and then find the button.
I think a large tab menu label serving as a button itself which upon clicking, expands into the shit you want to see.
but the lines throw me off too -- i understand the line is meant to be seen as an indication of separation and a heading but i expect the line to also dropdown to the bottom of the list, below the content of links. Which I guess isn't a bg problem when the list grows large but when you onlu have a one or a few items, the line distracts me momentarily, post animation.
but overall I anticipate having a lot of use out of this web tool!
thank you for your effort
-SMG
I think a large tab menu label serving as a button itself which upon clicking, expands into the shit you want to see.
but the lines throw me off too -- i understand the line is meant to be seen as an indication of separation and a heading but i expect the line to also dropdown to the bottom of the list, below the content of links. Which I guess isn't a bg problem when the list grows large but when you onlu have a one or a few items, the line distracts me momentarily, post animation.
but overall I anticipate having a lot of use out of this web tool!
thank you for your effort
-SMG
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi, thank you for the thoughtful review! I definitely understand deleting something by mistake is frustrating. When deleting something, you should see a blue notification bubble appear at the top for a short time; clicking it will undo the deletion (or if you've done multiple deletions recently, it will take you to the deleted-items page).
I went with this approach instead of the confirmation like you suggested, because interrupting the user to ask for confirmation on every delete can be pretty obtrusive—95% of the time, the answer is "yes, I meant to do that". "Undo" gives you an easy way to fix any mistakes while still (mostly) staying out of your way.
I'll keep your other UI feedback (e.g. about the separator line and stacking up too many items) in mind for future releases. Thanks again!
I went with this approach instead of the confirmation like you suggested, because interrupting the user to ask for confirmation on every delete can be pretty obtrusive—95% of the time, the answer is "yes, I meant to do that". "Undo" gives you an easy way to fix any mistakes while still (mostly) staying out of your way.
I'll keep your other UI feedback (e.g. about the separator line and stacking up too many items) in mind for future releases. Thanks again!
568 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kojima020, 19 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18022924, 12 days agoGreat extension! Thanks!
Is there any chance of making this available to Firefox mobile? Especially Android edition. That would be killer especially if it used sync like the desktop version.Developer response
posted 6 hours agoThanks for the kind words! Unfortunately, I'm not an Android user, so I have no way to develop and test it on Android. However, all your saved tabs are still accessible in your bookmarks on Android. You can feel free to edit the bookmarks on your phone, and Tab Stash on your desktop will pick up the changes when they sync. I know it's not ideal, but unless someone who uses Android steps up to help, I'm afraid that's the best I can offer right now. - Rated 5 out of 5by Phllip, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19487299, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aeredy, a month agoBest extension hands down. Dev also a goat in terms of support as u can see
Developer response
posted a month agoEDIT: This appears to be due to a Firefox bug that will be fixed in the next major Firefox release. In the meantime, you can open the full-tab view and Drag and Drop will work there.
Thanks, I'm happy to hear you like it! I promise I didn't remove the drag-and-drop ability; if it's not working for you, would you mind opening an issue on GitHub and sharing a screen recording of what's going on? I'd be happy to look into it, it's certainly possible that some of the styling changes might've caused a problem I missed in my own testing. - Rated 5 out of 5by ietwat, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19637503, a month agoAn irreplaceable extension. The only two things I wish Tab Stash had are 1) the ability to pin groups to the top of the Tab Stash page and 2) the ability to collapse/expand all the folders in a group with one button. Those are tiny nitpicks, though.
Developer response
posted a month agoHi, thanks for the review! Pinning is an oft-requested feature that unfortunately doesn't exist yet, but you can expand/collapse all folders in a group today. Just Alt+Click (or Option+Click on Mac) the group's own expand/collapse button to expand/collapse all the sub-groups within. Hope that helps! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18786431, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19634112, a month agoThis is the cleanest looking tab stash addon I know. It stays out of the way. You can get all tabs open with one click. One issue though, the new update added a lot of boxes to the tab UI "to make it match Firefox's style"?, and it looks too busy now. The older UI looked better. 5*
Developer response
posted a month agoYeah, Firefox completely changed their sidebar theming when they added vertical tabs, so for better or worse that's the style nowadays. I agree with you that it's busier than I would like (and I feel that way about Firefox's built-in sidebars too), but I want Tab Stash to feel as close to "built-in to Firefox" as I can manage. "Stays out of the way" is exactly what I'm going for!
If I hear from more folks (preferably on GitHub, where it's easier to have a back-and-forth conversation), I'll certainly consider trying to find a better balance between "makes good use of space / is clean" and "looks like Firefox".
In any case, thanks for the review, and I'm glad you're enjoying it! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19623907, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kog, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Leviii, 2 months agoExtremely good and powerful. I am using it as complimentary add-on for in-built bookmarks system and it has already considered many possible use cases like de-duplication, close stashed/saved tabs, highlight opened tabs, and it even updates order of bookmarks if the actual tabs are re-arranged before saving! I also recommend setting this extension page as homepage so all links are neatly organized and accessible. This wouldn't be possible without this add-on, anyone used to papaly will know exactly how useful this is. Also you can import links and file structure from copied list of bookmarks.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15638270, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Titus, 3 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Sam, 3 months agoIf the "Save all tabs" option is selected, empty open tabs (without an active domain) are not saved, only tabs with an active domain are saved.
Slow to save 1960 open tabs, no language available support (Italian)Developer response
posted 3 months agoTab Stash doesn't save blank tabs by design, though you can explicitly save them using drag-and-drop, selection, etc in the UI. The reason being, most of the time, these tabs are just clutter.
And yeah, I hear you on operations involving lots of tabs being slow—unfortunately, most of this is due to Firefox. I do try to keep Tab Stash's performance as high as it can be, but there's only so much I can do if Firefox itself is slow.
Also hear you on the language support. It's a really big effort to even get Tab Stash ready for translation into other languages, and it's been on the list for a while now. I do hope to get to it one day (and patches from others are always welcome).
Thanks for the feedback! - Rated 4 out of 5by Nana, 3 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 3 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! - Rated 5 out of 5by jI, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ath0rus, 4 months agoThe name of this extensions is not wrong, It stash's tabs. Out of all the extensions I tried (and I tried alot) this does it the best. Yes the setup is a wee bit confusing but once that was sorted I managed to get it working exactly how I wanted it too. This should be a base firefox feature, Idk why it is not already (needs to be part of firefox view).
The only one thing I would like to see (other then it being part of firefox view) is the ability to select multiple tabs in a stash and export them to a file (for sharing else where)
Edit: the dev responded and I am embarrased I missed the setting to import and export, It literally is the exact addon I was looking for. Now my firefox actualy loads fast.Developer response
posted 4 months agoI'm happy to hear it's working well for you! There is indeed an export feature, it's hiding in the "..." menu for each folder (or the main menu next to the search box). You can choose from several formats and copy/paste into the location of your choice.
Sorry to hear the setup was a bit confusing, if you'd like to chat more about it, feel free to open an issue on GitHub. And thanks for the review! - Rated 5 out of 5by PO_IS_ON, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mio, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19291583, 5 months agoIt is processing tabs, one by one. So when stashing tabs it takes ages.
Firefox allocated 8GB of RAM and crashed (I have few thousands tabs opened).
It is storing "stashes" in a bookmarks which is good.
When tabs are finally stashed, then it is using about 500MB of RAM just to show a list of "stashes".Developer response
posted 5 months agoThanks for the feedback—it is true that Tab Stash currently doesn't handle thousands of OPEN tabs (in the same window) very well. However, it is known to handle large sets (tens of thousands) of STASHED tabs quite well, with minimal memory usage, and I've put quite a lot of work into making sure it stays that way.
The 500MB of RAM you're referencing is likely because you have thousands of tabs loaded in the UI from when you first stashed your open tabs—this will normally be much smaller because UI elements are created only when they need to be shown.
As for the one-by-one processing of tabs, that's unfortunately a limitation in Firefox's bookmarks API. Having lots of parallel bookmark operations running can mess up Firefox Sync and cause other problems in the bookmarks database. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13978806, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19188203, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AEZ314, 6 months agoI'm in love with this extension! Would love to see it on Chrome based browsers too (please port it, I desperately need it lol)
Developer response
posted 6 months agoThanks, I'm really happy you like it! A Chrome port is unfortunately very unlikely, because Tab Stash uses a lot of Firefox-specific things. Also, I am not a Chrome user, so wouldn't be able to provide good support for it. But it may happen one day, I won't say "never". :)