Critiques pour Simple Tab Groups
Simple Tab Groups par Drive4ik
Avis de Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 13688369 de Firefox
Noté 3 sur 5
par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 13688369 de Firefox, il y a 8 ansI installed this add-on to replace the Quicksaver add-on so I have to compare this with the Quicksaver add-on.
What I liked is the coloring and the UIs.
But I have some serious issues with this add-on:
The way how it works: Every tab is saved as an URL like "moz-extension://...url=...". When you switch tabs, the tabs of the current group are closed and tabs of the new group are opened. If you click on the tab it takes an additional time to load the tab.
This process costs a lot of time if you have many tabs.
It took me about 10-20 minutes to switch a tab group - to be fair, that one specific tab group had about 2500 tabs which is a lot.
The second big issue is that you lose all your tabs if you uninstall the add-on:
Actually I still have my tabs, but they are stored with the URL "moz-extension://...." and therefore my opened tabs are practically unsuable, but also the history is. Now I have to write my own plugin to remove that prefix from the URL and hopefully I can work again.
Normally I would rate it one star because it was practically unusable for me but to be fair having 2500 open tabs I am not a normal user and I guess there are technical limitations that prevent the tabs to be "hidden" and you have to do it that way with the URL prefixes.
What I liked is the coloring and the UIs.
But I have some serious issues with this add-on:
The way how it works: Every tab is saved as an URL like "moz-extension://...url=...". When you switch tabs, the tabs of the current group are closed and tabs of the new group are opened. If you click on the tab it takes an additional time to load the tab.
This process costs a lot of time if you have many tabs.
It took me about 10-20 minutes to switch a tab group - to be fair, that one specific tab group had about 2500 tabs which is a lot.
The second big issue is that you lose all your tabs if you uninstall the add-on:
Actually I still have my tabs, but they are stored with the URL "moz-extension://...." and therefore my opened tabs are practically unsuable, but also the history is. Now I have to write my own plugin to remove that prefix from the URL and hopefully I can work again.
Normally I would rate it one star because it was practically unusable for me but to be fair having 2500 open tabs I am not a normal user and I guess there are technical limitations that prevent the tabs to be "hidden" and you have to do it that way with the URL prefixes.
Réponse du développeur
mis en ligne : il y a 8 ansIf you are "not a normal user", then you should understand that I currently do not have the ability to hide tabs because of the limitations of the Firefox WebExtensions API.
If you are "not a normal user", you could go into the settings and remove the checkbox "Enable fast group switching" - and this will disable the functionality that you did not like so much, namely: the URL like "moz-extension://...url=...". You have 2500 tabs - I understand what you have a problem.
About the fact that when you delete the extension there are tabs with the prefix moz-extension - this bug I'll postfix, thank you for finding it.
Thanks for your feedback
If you are "not a normal user", you could go into the settings and remove the checkbox "Enable fast group switching" - and this will disable the functionality that you did not like so much, namely: the URL like "moz-extension://...url=...". You have 2500 tabs - I understand what you have a problem.
About the fact that when you delete the extension there are tabs with the prefix moz-extension - this bug I'll postfix, thank you for finding it.
Thanks for your feedback
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- Noté 4 sur 5par TT, il y a 8 joursaddon "Hide Tabs" may help you unhide all tabs after firefox update problem
- Noté 5 sur 5par CreativeUsername1, il y a 11 joursI've been looking for something like this!
Works perfectly!!!! - Noté 4 sur 5par Juno, il y a 15 jours
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 19937432 de Firefox, il y a 20 joursWorked well until recently. Now every time you open FF after closing it, some of the tab groups are in different windows, some might be empty, and the backups just aren't there. This extension has totally lost its purpose as being able to save what you're doing through restarts.
- Noté 4 sur 5par EnergyMover, il y a 25 joursRestore backup no longer works with firefox May 13 2026 update! Looks like an abandoned extension. Been over a year since last updated. What a shame. It was the best of its kind!
- Noté 4 sur 5par Adam T, il y a un mois
- Noté 4 sur 5par antonavy, il y a 2 moisIt's really a good option for the lack of a better one... It gets the job done by hiding tabs from other "workspaces" into the hidden tabs list. Didn't notice a lot of bugs.
But a few things that really push me to use other browsers: it's not as elegant, very simple design, doesn't feel native and natural (compared to vivaldi, arc, zen, opera, etc); and two very annoying things: tab groups don't hidden, but are kinda empty, but still show previews, which brakes immersion and the fact that it spawns a directory every single day in your home folder ("STG-..."), and never cleans it up. - Noté 5 sur 5par Ron Elicit, il y a 2 moisMy favorite browser extension, hands down. Yes, the last Firefox update broke it. Need your tabs back? Settings > Backup Your Simple Tab Groups > Enable Auto-backup (you should be doing this anyway). Then Restore Backup every time you relaunch Firefox. (I delete existing data and revert to my last save.)
That's how I'm managing until the maintainer updates this extension. (Based on their location in Ukraine, I'm willing to give them some slack.) - Noté 4 sur 5par CarlosTorch, il y a 2 mois
- Noté 1 sur 5par rbx4, il y a 2 moisI don't know why anyone would use this. Does not reliably save tab groups.
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 14179354 de Firefox, il y a 2 moiskeeps crashing when trying to restore backup. tab groups load but not the pages in them.
- Noté 3 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 16987590 de Firefox, il y a 2 moisIt's okay. But your max is going to be 4 groups before tabs/browser starts to feel laggy on MacOS.
- Noté 5 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 19794048 de Firefox, il y a 3 mois
- Noté 1 sur 5par Zalupppa, il y a 3 moisОдного чудового дня пропали усі вкладинки, не рекомендую нікому у кого є до праці 10+ вкладинок
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 19799423 de Firefox, il y a 3 moisUnfortunately, the add-on no longer works with the current version of Firefox.
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 14589876 de Firefox, il y a 3 moisК сожалению, дополнение неисправно. При попытке восстановить группы из резервной копии, браузер просто падает и восстанавливаются пустые группы.
- Noté 5 sur 5par elsenfox, il y a 3 mois
- Noté 5 sur 5par jb, il y a 3 mois
- Noté 5 sur 5par wudini, il y a 3 mois
- Noté 1 sur 5par Ubirajara1000, il y a 4 moisSimplesmente NÃO funciona. Gastei mais de 3h criando grupos, mas a extensão SINGLE TAB GROUPS simplesmente não grava os grupos que criei e os apaga sempre.
- Noté 1 sur 5par FireFox-User-1, il y a 4 moisNope, great Idea but every some updates it kills everything and is not relaible. Now lost 200 tabs ....
- Noté 5 sur 5par KT, il y a 4 mois
- Noté 1 sur 5par Utilisateur ou utilisatrice 14520466 de Firefox, il y a 4 moisAll open tabs that were not in a group suddenly disappeared, as I was managing groups. They only reappeared again when the extension was uninstalled. That's a terrible user experience. Avoid.