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Session Boss geliştiren: William Wng
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yazan: LCS, 7 yıl önceI cannot rate higher than one star if the code is not available for review in github somewhere. I would not recommend anyone use this extension with the code being available for review. From time to time there are extensions that are pulled because they contain malicious code. That's after so many users have been using them for some time. I am not saying that this extension contains any malicious code. Only that as a community we cannot ascertain whether it does or not until the source code is publicly available for review.
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gönderilme: 7 yıl önceI really take exception to this unfair review comment and its insinuation.
- First of all, I would encourage anyone not to use an extension if there's any doubt about it, including this one.
- Second, Mozilla has put in place a very rigorous review process to prevent malicious extensions. I went through it and it's no joke.
- Third, people underestimate how strong the new extension framework , the permission system, and the extension digital signing process Mozilla has put in place to prevent malicious attack since Firefox 57. I encourage you to look into the extension development process and see how things work.
- If people think some source code they review on Github would be the same as the extension installed on their machines, they're at best naive and at worst misleading others with a false sense of security. I really doubt their ability to do a proper security audit.
- All source code of all Firefox extensions are publicly available for review. And they are digitally signed to prevent tampering. If one has some basic knowledge about Firefox extension, one can start reviewing the code right the way.
- Github's purpose is for sharing source code and managing project development.
- I developed this extension mainly for my own use and thought others might find it useful so I shared it. I would care less about the rating. If you think a low rating would force me to put the source code on Github, you are sadly mistaken. I will never put the source code on it.
- In fact, the source used to have a GPL license. I've just changed it to closed source because of this review.
- First of all, I would encourage anyone not to use an extension if there's any doubt about it, including this one.
- Second, Mozilla has put in place a very rigorous review process to prevent malicious extensions. I went through it and it's no joke.
- Third, people underestimate how strong the new extension framework , the permission system, and the extension digital signing process Mozilla has put in place to prevent malicious attack since Firefox 57. I encourage you to look into the extension development process and see how things work.
- If people think some source code they review on Github would be the same as the extension installed on their machines, they're at best naive and at worst misleading others with a false sense of security. I really doubt their ability to do a proper security audit.
- All source code of all Firefox extensions are publicly available for review. And they are digitally signed to prevent tampering. If one has some basic knowledge about Firefox extension, one can start reviewing the code right the way.
- Github's purpose is for sharing source code and managing project development.
- I developed this extension mainly for my own use and thought others might find it useful so I shared it. I would care less about the rating. If you think a low rating would force me to put the source code on Github, you are sadly mistaken. I will never put the source code on it.
- In fact, the source used to have a GPL license. I've just changed it to closed source because of this review.
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- 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: harogaston, 4 ay önceFeature complete. Works excellent. Saved my day many times and helps with organization.
- 5 üzerinden 1 puanyazan: Firefox kullanıcısı 5974554, 8 ay önceSomehow lost ALL my windows and tabs!
- 5 üzerinden 1 puanyazan: SedUz, 10 ay önceDoesn't work at all. This extension is useless and can't save any session. Doesn't support private windows and GUI is buggy.
I don't get it what you have updated there 3 months ago, but it simply doesn't work. - 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: bege1, bir yıl önceI recommend this session manager rather than the one that Mozilla recommends.
Session Boss saves sessions automatically when changes happen, not in a fix time schedule. No unnecessary backups and nothing gets lost.
You can decide whether to keep or remove the current tabs right when restoring a session. It is not bound to a fix setting.
I am very contented with this session manager. - 5 üzerinden 1 puanyazan: Rujin parker, bir yıl önceTL;DR The extension current state as of 11-Jul-24 is slow, functionally insufficient, visually unappealing, & Unreliable.
Session Boss is a poorly executed session manager that hinders user experience due to performance bottlenecks, feature deficiencies, and an outdated design & interface. infact it's a prime e.g. why people flee to better tab managing browsers ecosystems (chromium native support for tab management is not great but the extension support to manipulate the behavior makes up for it)
The extension's performance issues are particularly egregious when dealing with large numbers of tabs. A session with 1,500 tabs took over 30 agonizing minutes to restore using Session Boss. In contrast, Firefox's native solution (about:sessionrestore) accomplished the same feat in mere seconds. takes a minute or 2 to completely do its job of restoring the tabs with their associated groups in the tree style tab with no laggy experience at all. Otherwise it does what it suppose to do. backs up your tabs & its structure by both on schedule & change basis but in order to do that it consumes too much CPU making your browsing miserable. i.e. not optimized for a session manager.
Furthermore, the extension's performance woes extend beyond session restoration. General browsing becomes sluggish, and video playback is plagued by stuttering and lag. & worse it makes tree style tab slow & laggy. which makes it even more frustrating.
Session Boss boasts a feature set that can only be described as rudimentary. It's as if the developer took a core concept and then deliberately stripped it down to its bare bones.
- Basic Operations: The extension lacks fundamental capabilities like selecting multiple tabs for moving, copying, cutting, pasting tabs between sessions, and merging or splitting sessions. These are essential functions for any modern session manager.
-- Duplicate Tabs: Identifying and managing duplicate tabs is a nightmare. There's no built-in mechanism to distinguish between identical tabs, let alone group or remove them.
-- Import/Export: A critical omission is the absence of robust import/export options. The extension cannot import session data from popular alternatives like Chrome's TabXpert or Firefox's Tab Session Manager, nor can it utilize Firefox's native backup files (.jsonlz4, .baklz4). also, Non-existent CSV support. This limitation hampers user experience and restricts data transfer capabilities. & also significantly reduces the extension's utility.
- Organization: Session Boss offers no tools for organizing tabs within a session. There's no option to sort tabs by domain, URL, title, or most recently used. After searching for tabs, there is no way to select and manage multiple tabs across different sessions. This makes managing large numbers of tabs an exercise in frustration.
Coming down to the user interface of Session Boss is outdated and visually unappealing as already said above. It clashes with Firefox's modern design language, creating a jarring and unprofessional look. The extension's slow response times (specifically when deleting the sessions) exacerbate the overall poor user experience. I suggest the Dev. to take a look at partizion.io & tabXpert both of them are great session manager & tab manager in every way. Performance wise, UI/UX wise, Feature Wise, Support wise. plz give them a look.
Data Loss: The extension exhibited alarming instability during testing. In one instance, all saved sessions were mysteriously deleted after a system crash. This is an unacceptable level of unreliability for a session manager. Session Boss's on-change basis and scheduled saving functions conflict, causing delays and additional issues. Re-enabling the extension after disabling it resulted in losing all session data & making the extension unresponsive.
As it stands, this extension is in its infancy and requires extensive work before it can be considered a viable session manager for daily use. - 5 üzerinden 2 puanyazan: Jay, 2 yıl önceIt does fine in remembering the tabs and windows I saved but when i backup a session and try to reopen it it only opens 10-50% of the tabs i had open, and i have to do the rest manually.
- 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: Firefox kullanıcısı 18285282, 2 yıl önceBetter than session buddy, the best session manager
Edit: LIMITED SESSION SAVES - 2 THUMBS DOWN - 5 üzerinden 1 puanyazan: Firefox kullanıcısı 18187107, 2 yıl önceUsed to work fine until it randomly decided to wipe all my tabs. Nothing could be recovered. Stay away!
- 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: Firefox kullanıcısı 17861056, 2 yıl önceAmazing. Best alternative to Session Buddy in Firefox. Supports Tree Style Tabs also. Perfect! I wish it could also restore favicons.
- 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: Firefox kullanıcısı 16024671, 3 yıl önceVery good, saved me several times. It should be kept up-to-date. Automatic Scheduled Exports would be nice...
- 5 üzerinden 2 puanyazan: Mata, 3 yıl önce
- 5 üzerinden 2 puanyazan: Shenandoah, 3 yıl önce
- 5 üzerinden 1 puanyazan: laurentparis, 3 yıl önceUsed to work ok but today ALL my saved user sessions simply vanished. With no apparent means to recover them. Thousands of tabs lost.
- 5 üzerinden 2 puanyazan: dafFDasd, 3 yıl önceHas option to open full page view as default. But no closing tabs nor windows is possible.
- 5 üzerinden 4 puanyazan: Seak T. F., 3 yıl önceEverything (GUI, etc) is nice. Except that it seems like it's unable to sync across computer, right?
- 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: Firefox kullanıcısı 14983551, 3 yıl önceIntially had the the problem off rare moments where all User sessions would get deleted from a crash or update. Incredible plugin though, i love it. Just make sure you get into the habit of always exporting (backing up) all your user sessions few times a week. Nevetheless, perfect plugin.
- 5 üzerinden 4 puanyazan: Hand-J, 3 yıl önceits really great if i can merge session, remove duplicate and many operation to clearing up and summarizing my session.... and i cant make storing size more than 99 sessioan?
- 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: SouzaRM, 4 yıl önceExcellent purpose.
Phenomenal UI/UX!
Unfortunately it has not been updated since Jun 7, 2019 (V. 2.11.2).
Effusive congratulations to the developer. - 5 üzerinden 4 puanyazan: T-01, 4 yıl önceIt's good, IMHO the best session manager for Firefox, but the problem is, it just lost all the saved sessions for no apparent reason -- and no, I don't have other profiles, I just checked.
To be fair, most (all?) other session managers seem to do that from time to time, at least judging by user reviews. Perhaps it's more of a Firefox thing than this extension's fault, I don't really know. So it's four stars on trust because I don't know who's to blame.
I wonder how does one make automated backups outside of Firefox to work around this issue. Is it enough to copy the files under browser-extension-data/[email protected]? Can they be safely copied while the extension is running, or is that looking for trouble? Or can the export be automated somehow?
Besides this, there's a minor UI annoyance: the buttons icons, which look right in the screenshots, for some reason look horrible here, as if they are being badly resized. - 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: nomoreoperaforme, 4 yıl önceThis is an excellent add-on but it took me some time how to work it out. Not the most intuitive of apps. But has saved the day a few times now. Best of the session restorers i have tried.
- 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: Firefox kullanıcısı 16798532, 4 yıl önceIt is somewhat slow in my device, but I just have 4 gb. I love this extension, I'm always use it to order all of my different kind of works.
- 5 üzerinden 4 puanyazan: PBC, 5 yıl önceAfter closing Firefox I found a pop-up window from Microsoft was still open. Closing that saved it as my last session so I lost all my pinned tabs. Thanks to Session Boss, I was able to export the current session on my other PC then import it to this one. Everything has been recovered including favicons. Brilliant!
The only downside was that Firefox identified a couple of tabs as having errors and would not allow them to be restored. - 5 üzerinden 5 puanyazan: Andrew, 5 yıl önceI use this mainly before closing Firefox before rebooting my computer. The user session save works really well. I live how it saves the container tab being used. Great work - thank you!