Recensioner för Simple Tab Groups
Simple Tab Groups av Drive4ik
Recension av Firefox-användare 13688369
Betygsatt 3 av 5
av Firefox-användare 13688369, för 9 år sedanI 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.
Utvecklarens svar
postad för 9 år sedanIf 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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- Betygsatt 5 av 5av jeeyu, för 7 dagar sedan
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- Betygsatt 5 av 5av Billie Lynn, för 13 dagar sedanFirst... I love this Add-On! I know right now its being flaky and buggy and the author isn't responding to fixing things. This most likely because he is being affected by the WAR in Ukraine, where he lives. Hoping for his safe return to programming tools like this.
FYI, There is newer code on Git that was submitted just over a month ago. I'm trying to figiure out how to install that and test it. - Betygsatt 1 av 5av nucky, för en månad sedanUsing this for years, have to stop now and find an alternative. Do not recommend at all
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- Betygsatt 5 av 5av CreativeUsername1, för 2 månader sedanI've been looking for something like this!
Works perfectly!!!! - Betygsatt 4 av 5av Juno, för 2 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 3 av 5av Firefox-användare 19937432, för 2 månader sedanWorked 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.
- Betygsatt 4 av 5av EnergyMover, för 2 månader sedanRestore 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!
- Betygsatt 4 av 5av Adam T, för 3 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 4 av 5av antonavy, för 3 månader sedanIt'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. - Betygsatt 5 av 5av Ron Elicit, för 3 månader sedanMy 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.) - Betygsatt 1 av 5av vinnyg0621, för 3 månader sedanupdate it to the latest version of firefox,
now!!! 😤 - Betygsatt 4 av 5av CarlosTorch, för 4 månader sedan
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av rbx4, för 4 månader sedanI don't know why anyone would use this. Does not reliably save tab groups.
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- Betygsatt 3 av 5av Firefox-användare 16987590, för 4 månader sedanIt's okay. But your max is going to be 4 groups before tabs/browser starts to feel laggy on MacOS.
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- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Zalupppa, för 4 månader sedanОдного чудового дня пропали усі вкладинки, не рекомендую нікому у кого є до праці 10+ вкладинок
- Betygsatt 1 av 5av Firefox-användare 19799423, för 4 månader sedanUnfortunately, the add-on no longer works with the current version of Firefox.
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