Reviews for OneTab
OneTab by OneTab Team
Review by Firefox user 12197181
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 12197181, 4 years agoI NEVER post reviews, so you know it is BAD when I'm forced to. Onetab crashed my browser and now I've lost months of research. I just installed the add-on, while I had over 1250 tabs in my browser. After installation I clicked on the icon, thinking it would pop open a selection window like many other add-ons. NOPE, Onetab closed ALL my tabs, which is not what I wanted. I saw the option to restore all so I selected that. It reopened all tabs (1250) but as you may know Firefox cannot handle opening that many tabs at once and it hung Firefox up. I gave it my normal 15 minutes to see if it would recover, it did not so I had to do a forced power off reboot. I've been using Firefox for almost 20 years, so I deeply understand how it handles the hundreds and sometime thousands of tabs I will have open for my research. Of course you can never reload all tabs at one time as when you have to many tabs active it slows down or crashes Firefox. So I reboot my machine once per day or after working on several hundred tabs. When it reopens I can go to the tabs I need to continue work on and only those will open.
After the crash, Only the Onetab tab was open, my 1250 tabs were gone and the Onetab showed no saved tabs. I tried using the standard Firefox "Restore All Tabs" function and it only opened 24 of my 1250 tabs, the rest were completely gone. I tried going to my History and copied all tabs from the last 7 days, but got 3,654 tabs, and I only worked on maybe 300 tabs in the last week. I then copied all tabs from the last month and got 7,359 tabs. While I've never copied tabs from the History section I've never seen numbers like that. I backup all tabs once per week to a bookmark file. When I copy all tabs from there it is always the exact number I have open, in the case of last weeks backup it was 2,641. Last week, as normal, I see it is that high and I go and close as many old research tabs as possible, so that is why this week it was down to 1250 tabs. But not Onetab, while a great concept has cost me the lost of one week of work. I could spend the entire rest of the day painfully going through the last weeks history and reopening every single lost tab, one by one, but this is so painful and I loose another full day of work.
UNINSTALLED, yet another Tab Add-On that causes crashes and corruptions, beware, if you use more then ten tabs as once, DO NOT INSTALL THIS ADD-ON.
After the crash, Only the Onetab tab was open, my 1250 tabs were gone and the Onetab showed no saved tabs. I tried using the standard Firefox "Restore All Tabs" function and it only opened 24 of my 1250 tabs, the rest were completely gone. I tried going to my History and copied all tabs from the last 7 days, but got 3,654 tabs, and I only worked on maybe 300 tabs in the last week. I then copied all tabs from the last month and got 7,359 tabs. While I've never copied tabs from the History section I've never seen numbers like that. I backup all tabs once per week to a bookmark file. When I copy all tabs from there it is always the exact number I have open, in the case of last weeks backup it was 2,641. Last week, as normal, I see it is that high and I go and close as many old research tabs as possible, so that is why this week it was down to 1250 tabs. But not Onetab, while a great concept has cost me the lost of one week of work. I could spend the entire rest of the day painfully going through the last weeks history and reopening every single lost tab, one by one, but this is so painful and I loose another full day of work.
UNINSTALLED, yet another Tab Add-On that causes crashes and corruptions, beware, if you use more then ten tabs as once, DO NOT INSTALL THIS ADD-ON.
2,390 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jon, 2 days agoThis extension makes tab management super easy. I have had all my tab links disappear before, but they have always shown up again with a refresh or a browser restart. To be safe though, I do export my tabs occasionally.
I especially like:
- ability to name tab groups
- ability to lock tab groups
- ability to quickly reopen a tab group
- when my tabs get out of control, I send them all to OneTab where they are much easier to pick and choose the keepers and then sort them
The only thing that is mildly annoying for me is that I will occasionally hit the OneTab icon in my toolbar by mistake and send all my tabs to OneTab. This is a very minor inconvenience though because I can restore all the tabs almost as quickly. - Rated 5 out of 5by Alejandro, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hi, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by guy.1, 7 days agoit's great and I've been using it for years, but it is missing a merge function whereby i can merge a list with another one
- Rated 3 out of 5by hunsai, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 5813676, 9 days agoDO NOT INSTALL THIS. It will delete all of your tabs, with no way to recover them. Check the other reviews, this is happening to everyone.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17760368, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by maximiano cornejo franco, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18300127, 15 days agoit's a very good add-on, one tab is essential for me
- Rated 1 out of 5by nightspicer, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Glorioso, 16 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17037365, 16 days agoit's good, but you won't love it any more once you lose the tabs stashed
- Rated 5 out of 5by 小马, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bappoetter, 18 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jeddostotle7, 19 days agoMobile version review: I was pleased to find that there was a mobile version of OneTab, and it has many of the same functions, but a major downside in my usecase is that I can't practically add more than 10-15 tabs into OneTab at a time. I have to swipe through my tabs to load them, which will present them as able for OneTab to see and save. If I'm... not careful, or not quick enough, or TOO quick(?????), a tab will unload and I will have to go back and reopen it to make it able to be OneTab'ed.
This mobile version would be massively improved by the ability to just save all tabs all at once. I feel like the fact it's not here may mean there's something about Firefox mobile that keeps it from having that function, but if that's not the case, please add "send all tabs to OneTab". - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18208303, 19 days agoVery Helpful. Series of Tabs/Screens that need to be opened daily - makes this quick & easy. I also lost all tabs - a years worth! Reached out to OneTab Support. With their suggestions & some creativity - I did not give up - took a bit of work but was able to restore ALL. I have since learned to use Export to back up my list - not ideal but better than gone. I now DISABLE OneTab BEFORE ALL FIREFOX UPDATES - so far this has resolved the loss issue [also not ideal but for me worth it] Looking thru some other reviews most of the issues I see are easily resolved. [For the record - I am not great with Tech by any definition - but can follow instruction if motivated]
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18380383, 20 days agoDon't use it, it's very great at first and then it will lose all your tabs. Twice.
- Rated 4 out of 5by marusez, 24 days ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by paananenenanaap, 24 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by ThatGuy147, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jernej, a month ago