Beoardielingen foar Simple Tab Groups
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Wurdearringen foar Firefox-brûker 13688369
Wurdearring: 3 fan 5
troch Firefox-brûker 13688369, 8 jierren lynI 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.
Antwurd ûntwikkeler
8 jierren lyn pleatstIf 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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- Wurdearring: 4 fan 5troch Juno, 24 minuten lyn
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19937432, 6 dagen lynWorked 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.
- Wurdearring: 4 fan 5troch EnergyMover, 11 dagen lynRestore 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!
- Wurdearring: 4 fan 5troch Adam T, 17 dagen lyn
- Wurdearring: 4 fan 5troch antonavy, ien moanne lynIt'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. - Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Ron Elicit, ien moanne lynMy 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.) - Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch vinnyg0621, ien moanne lynupdate it to the latest version of firefox,
now!!! 😤 - Wurdearring: 4 fan 5troch CarlosTorch, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch rbx4, 2 moannen lynI don't know why anyone would use this. Does not reliably save tab groups.
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 14179354, 2 moannen lynkeeps crashing when trying to restore backup. tab groups load but not the pages in them.
- Wurdearring: 3 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 16987590, 2 moannen lynIt's okay. But your max is going to be 4 groups before tabs/browser starts to feel laggy on MacOS.
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19794048, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Zalupppa, 2 moannen lynОдного чудового дня пропали усі вкладинки, не рекомендую нікому у кого є до праці 10+ вкладинок
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 19799423, 2 moannen lynUnfortunately, the add-on no longer works with the current version of Firefox.
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 14589876, 2 moannen lynК сожалению, дополнение неисправно. При попытке восстановить группы из резервной копии, браузер просто падает и восстанавливаются пустые группы.
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch elsenfox, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch jb, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch wudini, 2 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Ubirajara1000, 4 moannen lynSimplesmente 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.
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch FireFox-User-1, 4 moannen lynNope, great Idea but every some updates it kills everything and is not relaible. Now lost 200 tabs ....
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch KT, 4 moannen lyn
- Wurdearring: 1 fan 5troch Firefox-brûker 14520466, 4 moannen lynAll 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.
- Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch andres, 4 moannen lynThis is a super helpful extension!
There is one thing that could be improved. It would be great if the native Firefox groups remained related to the tab group. When I switch groups using Simple Tab Groups, the Firefox groups disappear along with the tabs. It's like having tabs and groups within groups. - Wurdearring: 5 fan 5troch Hugo, 4 moannen lynExactly what I have been looking for. I love that you can have multiple groups that share the same container. I use it to separate school subjects, but I want every school subject to be in the school container. I also like the automatic tab unloading feature that saves ram.