Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
Response by Josh Berry
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi, thanks for your comments and sorry to hear you're having trouble!
Regarding the deletion behavior: In general, Tab Stash is built with the expectation that any changes made to your groups should be explicitly done by you, not automatically. This helps to keep everything organized--my observation with other browsers and extensions has been that if groups are kept up to date automatically, it's really easy for tabs to get lost or irrelevant things to creep in. For example, if someone interrupts you to ask a question, and you open a new tab or re-purpose an existing tab to handle the interruption, that tab will show up in a group where it doesn't belong. Or worse, you will have lost something in your stash, just because you navigated away from the page you wanted to save.
There are also some technical limitations--Tab Stash stores everything as bookmarks, which are slow to update. If we were to keep your stashes in sync with every single change to your tabs, your browser would slow down considerably to handle all the bookmark updates.
So if what you are looking for is something closer to the "tab groups" features found in other browsers, I'm afraid Tab Stash won't be a good fit for you.
Finally, regarding restoring tabs: In order to re-open a tab which has been closed, Firefox itself must refresh/reload that tab from cache. This is entirely outside Tab Stash's control and is a necessary part of restoring the tab. You can avoid some (but not all) of this by telling Tab Stash never to unload hidden tabs (so the tab is still ready to go), but that comes at the expense of higher memory usage, and Firefox may still decide to unload the tab if memory usage gets too high.
That said, your point is well-taken that restoring a large number of tabs might slow down your browser, and we should probably show a warning to this effect. I'll keep this in mind for a future release!
Regarding the deletion behavior: In general, Tab Stash is built with the expectation that any changes made to your groups should be explicitly done by you, not automatically. This helps to keep everything organized--my observation with other browsers and extensions has been that if groups are kept up to date automatically, it's really easy for tabs to get lost or irrelevant things to creep in. For example, if someone interrupts you to ask a question, and you open a new tab or re-purpose an existing tab to handle the interruption, that tab will show up in a group where it doesn't belong. Or worse, you will have lost something in your stash, just because you navigated away from the page you wanted to save.
There are also some technical limitations--Tab Stash stores everything as bookmarks, which are slow to update. If we were to keep your stashes in sync with every single change to your tabs, your browser would slow down considerably to handle all the bookmark updates.
So if what you are looking for is something closer to the "tab groups" features found in other browsers, I'm afraid Tab Stash won't be a good fit for you.
Finally, regarding restoring tabs: In order to re-open a tab which has been closed, Firefox itself must refresh/reload that tab from cache. This is entirely outside Tab Stash's control and is a necessary part of restoring the tab. You can avoid some (but not all) of this by telling Tab Stash never to unload hidden tabs (so the tab is still ready to go), but that comes at the expense of higher memory usage, and Firefox may still decide to unload the tab if memory usage gets too high.
That said, your point is well-taken that restoring a large number of tabs might slow down your browser, and we should probably show a warning to this effect. I'll keep this in mind for a future release!
440 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18423792, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Çağdaş Akar, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zeus, 12 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by GenericUser, 13 days agoA bit buggy and slows down my browser (due to storing tabs as bookmarks but not fully closing the tab) turning the extension off and on fixes the browser. (turning off and on the extension also results in a hundred or so tabs of bookmarks being reopened but holding ctrl + w fixes that quick issue) (I think this may just be due to a limitation of the browser or some kind of bug)
Developer response
posted 12 days agoTab Stash uses Firefox's built-in tab-hiding feature to hide stashed tabs instead of closing them entirely. This allows the tab state to be preserved (vs. closing the tab, which loses all the state). If you accumulate too many hidden tabs, Tab Stash will unload them to make sure your browser doesn't slow down.
If you find this bothersome, you can change Tab Stash's settings so that tabs are entirely closed instead of hidden. There is also a "middle ground" option to unload hidden tabs immediately, so they remain open but don't use any resources.
Hope this helps! - Rated 5 out of 5by gio, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Reodanoe, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by infirms, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mnguni, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14183958, 24 days agoReally good at stashing tabs away, sort and group them, find tabs again and start working on separate topics in a natural way.
Everything is stored in your bookmarks, combine this with Firefox account sync and you can use it also on mobile, directly accessing your stashed bookmarks/group.
EXCELLENT add on!! Thanks a lot! - Rated 5 out of 5by Syafa Hadyan Rasendriya, 25 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by LiberaEspero, a month agoСвои задачи прекрасно выполняет, хотя ещё и не совершенно. Функций побольше, чем может показаться на первый взгляд. Однако многие из них придётся поискать, потому что документация, к сожалению, далеко не так хороша, как само расширение.
Не забывайте про зажатый ctrl, с ним можно выбирать и стакать несколько вкладок, а не мучаться с сохранением по одной или только папками/всеми открытыми.
Ещё из недостатков:
- Отсутствует перевод. Если с английским у вас сложно, для чтения документации придётся воспользоваться переводчиком или пробовать всё методом тыка, что, кстати, более чем выход, т. к. базовых функций немного.
- Вложенные папки (nested folders) работают ещё не очень хорошо. Точнее, сами папки более чем, а вот добавление в них новых ссылок пока что требует раскрыть содержимое папки, что не всегда удобно. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 5905964, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nunesgh, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arnav, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12426438, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by aforest, a month agoThis is an excellent add-on with a great UI and the ability to import and export to multiple formats with zero lock-in. The only thing I find missing is the ability do disable the address bar button which I only click by accident and don't really find useful.
Developer response
posted a month agoFirefox unfortunately removed this option recently, but I'll look into whether it's possible to offer in Tab Stash itself. Thanks for the suggestion! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13915823, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14018447, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18345706, 2 months agoI have only been using Tab Stash for a few days but it is 100% part of my Firefox workflow. I hate having an overloaded tab bar and this fixes it for me.
My one suggestion for an addition would be a one-button method to replace the whole current tab bar with another stashed tab group. Maybe that is already there but so far I have not found it. Thanks for a great addition.Developer response
posted 2 months agoThanks, I'm happy to hear it's working well for you! Duly noted about the one-button "replace all tabs" feature; it's been asked for a few times before so it's certainly on my radar for a future release. - Rated 5 out of 5by Vindikato, 2 months agobest bookmark sorter / helper : workflow keeper / digger friend ! it's like Adventure Time into your Browser
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cave24, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17911288, 2 months ago