Reviews for Simple Tab Groups
Simple Tab Groups by Drive4ik
193 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by RolandiXor, 7 jaar geledeAlmost as good as the old Panorama feature.
Some rough edges, but it's getting there.Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledePlease, update Firefox to latest version v61 and after that update addon to STG v3.0 (not experimental). In this version I implement hide tabs api. - Rated 4 out of 5by Arcesilas, 7 jaar geledeVery good! Some features still missing, but hopefully they will be soon added:
- resize groups in the global view (manage groups)
- allow user to choose to open the "Manage" view when clicking on the icon (as it was the case with former "Group Tabs" extension for FF<57)
- do not close tabs when change group (it seems, according to what I've read so far, that this is a limitation due to Firefox... yeah, this is improvement... but no problem, proprietary 3rd party tools like Pocket are embedded...)
Regex filters are VERY appreciated! Keep your groups clean and make sure your github tabs are always with their scrutinizer-ci friend :)
EDIT (2019-01-16) : I've FINALLY updated Firefox (had to update Fedora 26 -> 29) and I must say that it's very nice when using this (not so) new hidden tabs API. Thanks a lot for the great job !
However, I'm still waiting for free arrangement (hopefully with group resize in the "Manage" view) and the possibility to directly open the "Manage" view when clicking on the icon => then, I'll give the fifth star!Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledePlease, update Firefox to latest version v61 and after that update addon to STG v3.0 (not experimental). In this version I implement hide tabs api. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13711495, 7 jaar geledeAlmost nice replacement for old tab groups addon. But with numerous bugs and lesser functionality.
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posted 6 jaar geledePlease, update Firefox to latest version v61 and after that update addon to STG v3.0 (not experimental). In this version I implement hide tabs api. - Rated 4 out of 5by m4xp1, 7 jaar geledeПри открытии браузера забывает в какой группе я нахожусь, в итоге получается иногда что вообще без группы и мои вкладки не сохраняются. Сильно раздражает что при переключении группы вкладки все время загружаются заново, несмотря на то что ранее в этой сессии они уже были загружены. В остальном норм, Спасибо!
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posted 6 jaar geledeПожалуйста, обновите Firefox до последней версии (61) и после этого обновите аддон до версии 3.0. В ней реализовано скрытие вкладок - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13704924, 7 jaar geledeWonderful add-on!
- It would be awesome if you could add a auto-back option to the add-on, with time and idleness options.
- Also i recently ekspirenced a bug, where the tab group i was inn got "de-registered" so that the "group" i was inn had no color. And i got the a warning message, that if i switched to another group, all the taps in my current session/de-registered group would be lost.
It seems that it got duplicated, because all the tabs in the de-registered group where present in a registered group.Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledePlease, update Firefox to latest version v61 and after that update addon to STG v3.0 (not experimental). In this version I implement hide tabs api. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13594392, 7 jaar geledeWorking as described so far, thanks for this. FYI, breaking news that experimental version of tabHide api just landed in FF59 beta: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefox-59/ Hope you can get the extension working with it.
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posted 6 jaar geledePlease, update Firefox to latest version v61 and after that update addon to STG v3.0 (not experimental) Developer response
posted 6 jaar geledeIf you can, help me thanslate this addon
https://drive4ik.github.io/simple-tab-groups/translate/index.html- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13543470, 7 jaar geledeMuch better with the editable short-cuts10 points!
I also notice groups of tabs building up if I pull windows out from the original window.
this addon is getting there keep up the great work. - Rated 4 out of 5by Alexander Helz, 7 jaar geledeGreat Add-on
So far its good as the old Tab Groups
But there are two things that i dont like it, can you tell me how to fix it?
1: When i drag and drop tabs from group A to group B, the tab i need to transfer at the bottom of group A ( around 150 tabs in group A ). So after i dragged and dropped the tab, the scroll automatic go to the start of the list, so i have to scroll down again and again to move other tabs.
2: Auto rename and auto reload tabs when switch groups, i have lots of tabs so after switch groups my pc kind of lagging.
Hope you can tell me a good solution for those 2 problems i haveDeveloper response
posted 7 jaar gelede1) Please see this screenshots:
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2) Version 2.1 and above has option to fast group switching (in options page)
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 4 out of 5by NGM, 7 jaar geledeGreat "Manage groups" This is what we need. Thank you for updating quick and powerful.
- Rated 4 out of 5by RogueKitsune, 7 jaar geledeLike other I am switching over from Quicksaver's Tab Groups, so there will be plenty of comparisons to it.
The Good...
Pretty much everything UI related is better compared to Tab Groups. I like being able to set an image or colour to group. The menus and such also seem much more responsive.
The Ok...
I like that there are keyboard shortcuts but I would really like to be able to change the keybinding back to "ctrl + `" and "ctrl + shift + `"
The Bad...
Migrating from Quicksaver's Tab Groups to Simple Tab Groups was a bit rough. First I made sure to "back up" my tab groups by bookmarking them in folder named after their group. Then I installed Simple Tab Groups and disabled Tab Groups. After restarting only a few of my tabs showed up in a group even though the group had a tab count 563. So I restarted Firefox again. This time all my tabs showed up but I now had two groups with each with a copy of all my tabs. Repeating opening and closing Firefox continued the duplication of the group even after I started moving tabs into groups. To fix this I had to close all open tabs and restart. After that everything started working fine.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that this addon doesn't really like the about:* pages. Opening, for example about:config, does not bind it to a specific group instead it acts more like a pinned tab. In addition about:newtab does not load correctly when coming back to it (search bar, top sites, etc. don't show up)
The Ugly...
I know nothing can be done about it at this time but I still have to complain about it. I hate how this addon switches between groups. Essentially all the "current" tabs are closed and then new tabs are opened with the URLs from the other group.
TLDR
Good addon, but has some areas that need improvement
Disclaimer:
I only run nightly builds of Firefox, so there is a chance the issues I saw were caused by some change/defect in Firefox.Developer response
posted 7 jaar geledePlease update add-on to latest version (v2.2)
In this version I fix duplicate groups/tabs.
About "about:config" and etc.: this is not supported bu Firefox WebExtentions API
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/create
For security reasons, in Firefox, this may not be a privileged URL. So passing any of the following URLs will fail:
chrome: URLs
javascript: URLs
data: URLs
file: URLs (i.e., files on the filesystem. However, to use a file packaged inside the extension, see below)
privileged about: URLs (for example, about:config, about:addons, about:debugging). Non-privileged URLs (e.g., about:blank) are allowed.
The New Tab page (about:newtab) can be opened if no value for URL is provided.
Version 2.1 and above has option to fast group switching (in options page)
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 4 out of 5by Meridith, 7 jaar geledeIt isn't really super bad. If you ignore the fact that it adds random groups, duplicates tabs into other groups, deletes tab groups, has basically no instructions, forgets/deletes all tab groups and all that. As I said, if you ignore all that, it's alright.
EDIT: It has since been fixed, quite quickly to.Developer response
posted 7 jaar geledeI'm very sorry for what happened. Please, update addon to latest version. There have been fixed many bugs and added a function for quick group switch
If you can replicate this issue in latest addon version (now v2.1.2) - please contact me by email
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 4 out of 5by JosoSXY, 7 jaar gelede
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13617297, 7 jaar geledeGreat option for those missing Tab Groups. There is one important feature missing: The option to lazy load tabs. I'm using Tab Session Manager and use the lazy load option but when selecting a group, all tabs in that group start to load. Am I missing something?
Thanks and keep up the good work!Developer response
posted 7 jaar geledePlease, update addon to latest version. In latest version I added option to fast switch groups and auto load only active tab, not all tabs.
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 4 out of 5by The Goggles, 7 jaar geledeLove it; my only gripe is that when I switch tab groups, it loads ALL my tabs in that group (which in my case is a couple hundred tabs, so it takes forever and/or crashes a bunch of them). I can't find a way to load tabs only when I switch to them.
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posted 7 jaar geledePlease, update addon to latest version. In latest version I added option to fast switch groups and auto load only active tab, not all tabs.
Thanks for your feedback! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13652450, 7 jaar geledeHi Drive4ik,
Thank you so much for your work and efforts to provide a replacement under FF 57 for the Tab Groups Helper Add-on! Firefox is useless to me without a functioning Tab Groups extension, and this at least got me back up and running.
Having said that, I am hoping you can find time (in between all of your development work!! :) ) to respond to a few questions:
1) Is there a way to bookmark *all* tabs in *all* groups, or any plans to add that functionality? This is utterly essential to me (and I would assume to many others). This was available in Tab Groups Helper under the "More" option on the Groups Bar menu. So far I can only bookmark all tabs within a single group. (Note: I typically have many groups open, so bookmarking them all individually, while possible, is not a great solution.)
2) Any plans to add a Groups Bar similar to the one in Tab Groups Helper? That makes group management so much easier.
3) Would it be possible to add Drag-and-Drop functionality to re-order groups?
4) Would it be possible to default to renaming the new group at the time of creation? (again similar to Tab Groups Helper)
5) Are you aware of a Tab Count add-on that works with Simple Tab Groups? So far I haven't been able to find anything that shows the total number of tabs open, only by group. (Maybe this is a FF 57 issue / limitation...? Most of the tab count add-ons worked with Tab Groups Helper.)
Thanks again!!Developer response
posted 7 jaar gelede1) now I do not plan to add functionality to work with bookmarks
2) I don't understand what are you mean about "Groups Bar"
3) Done) update addon to latest version
4) now it's impossible to do, but I'll think about it
5) you can see tabs count in addon popup
Thanks for your feedback - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13640904, 7 jaar gelede
- Rated 4 out of 5by miek, 7 jaar geledebrilliant productivity enhancer, best replacement for tab groups that's available now.
I'd love it if
- the colours were a little more muted,
- I could edit a group name from the initial drop down menu,
- it was quicker to delete the auto created groups on new window - it's noisy, and deleting them is quite a few clicks
(delete + undo would be better than delete and confirm, delete from initial popdown would be a click saver)
otherwise, awesome. Developer response
posted 7 jaar geledeЯ очень стараюсь сделать этот аддон одним из лучших!
Спасибо за ваш отзыв!- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13614592, 7 jaar geledeWould be five stars if it wouldn't load every tab at once when switching groups. It kinda lags my PC
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13533635, 7 jaar geledeGreat extension, lighter and easier than Group tabs.
Is there an option to export tab groups & settings?
Another nice feature would be to be able to reorder groups in pop up window.Developer response
posted 7 jaar geledeExport and import functionality was added in latest version
Thanks for your feedback!