Reviews for Panorama View
Panorama View by photodiode
Review by We3
Rated 4 out of 5
by We3, 7 years agoExcellent replacement for Tab Groups, already has most of its functionality.
Only one major problem: memory use spikes ~1.2 MB per tab in active window every time I open Panorama View (although it can be reduced with 'Mimimize memory usage' without closing Panorama View). I'm guessing it is taking screenshots of all tabs, even if they haven't been loaded or haven't changed? Can the quality be reduced perhaps?
Minor:
1. going to a pinned tab does not restore previous tab group
2. pinned tabs can be moved between groups but are always visible
3. tab groups can't be scrolled if they include too many tabs
EDIT:
4. sometimes stops working partially: new tabs are not shown in group, a closed one hasn't disappeared from the group and can't be selected or closed, possibly caused by moving tabs between windows. Once after restart I think a tab or 2 were missing, might be related
5. once I had to select each tab group once for the one I was moving to go in front of them, not behind
Only one major problem: memory use spikes ~1.2 MB per tab in active window every time I open Panorama View (although it can be reduced with 'Mimimize memory usage' without closing Panorama View). I'm guessing it is taking screenshots of all tabs, even if they haven't been loaded or haven't changed? Can the quality be reduced perhaps?
Minor:
1. going to a pinned tab does not restore previous tab group
2. pinned tabs can be moved between groups but are always visible
3. tab groups can't be scrolled if they include too many tabs
EDIT:
4. sometimes stops working partially: new tabs are not shown in group, a closed one hasn't disappeared from the group and can't be selected or closed, possibly caused by moving tabs between windows. Once after restart I think a tab or 2 were missing, might be related
5. once I had to select each tab group once for the one I was moving to go in front of them, not behind
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you!
Yeah, it is because of the screenshots. It's something I'm continuously working on. It's surprisingly hard to get right. It should only take screenshots of loaded tabs, but it does indeed do it every time you focus the panorama view tab. The ~1.2 MB spike per tab is sadly expected here because Firefox needs to store the raw screenshot for a moment before I scale it down, compress and store it. I hope I can make this better in the future.
How pinned tabs work will be redone.
I will make the group scrollable when there are a lot of tabs too.
Thank you for the feedback!
Yeah, it is because of the screenshots. It's something I'm continuously working on. It's surprisingly hard to get right. It should only take screenshots of loaded tabs, but it does indeed do it every time you focus the panorama view tab. The ~1.2 MB spike per tab is sadly expected here because Firefox needs to store the raw screenshot for a moment before I scale it down, compress and store it. I hope I can make this better in the future.
How pinned tabs work will be redone.
I will make the group scrollable when there are a lot of tabs too.
Thank you for the feedback!
215 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by BlearMind, 18 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Hadez_sett, 24 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by AWolf255, a month agoIt has been 3 times now over the past year where I am lost all of my tabs when my computer restarted. It's incredibly frustrating (especially since I had a research section and lost all of my sources in the latest restart) There are also times where all of my tabs are dumped into one section during a restart and I have to spend a good amount of time reorganizing.
I would recommend you steer clear of this extension and find something comparable instead - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19167885, 2 months agoI like this extension，I wish there was an option for full screen mode instead of having to drag and resize it myself，Please Please Please
- Rated 1 out of 5by John T. Haller, 3 months agoThis is a great extension marred by losing all open tabs on a fairly regular basis. I lose everything 2 or 3 times a year and have stopped using it after the most recent loss.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nichers, 5 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by matt, 5 months agoAn essential add-on. I tend to open many tabs and Panorama View provides a decent visual overview. Wonder if it can be arranged to load the tab automatically at startup, that would be even greater. Pinning it, is no solution in this respect.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Schikatu, 5 months agoFunction is great but I closed a tab via firefoxes "X" assuming it would simply jump back into panorama view, it didnt. the browser closed and hundreds of tabs vanished into thin air. This should not happen and is extremely frustrating, cant even restore them via "recently closed windows/tabs"
- Rated 4 out of 5by Bryan, 7 months agoFantastic add-on. It's probably due to a browser update but the add-on icon no longer adapts to your browser's themes, which is an unfortunate thing as a dark mode user (the icon is black and barely visible).
- Rated 1 out of 5by murtiuso, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16670380, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Bhisma Rizqi, 9 months agoThis is a good panoramic group tab. It can change color according to settings. But this needs to be fixed, the icon can't change color when in dark mode. And I think you need to develop it, so that when the browser is closed and reopened the tab groups are still there like in other browsers, so that makes this extension more impressive. I hope you can fix it soon. Best regard.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18700730, 10 months agounrecoverably lost all my tabs when I x-ed out of the panorama view tab
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14728626, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hersh, a year agoI tried like 5 different tab grouping addons and this is the only one that actually does it properly. Albeit not exactly what I was looking for, but it works.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18609942, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14099385, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by super6plx, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by alN, a year agoWorks great until this week.
but now all groups with tabs inside are gone. Frustrating.. where can i get those tabs now? - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15310981, a year agogreat, but groups don't sync between browsers and cant find where the extension saves its autosaves which would be great so I can sync it myself through a symlink and icloud.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sineastra, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by eboye, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13904808, 2 years ago