Reviews for MySessions
MySessions by CromS
285 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15532401, 3 years agoDoesn't save a session automatically. More over it creates blank tabs every time I restore the session.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Gernot Hassenpflug, 3 years agoUpdate: Firefox 70 and above is crap, does not load many tabs, the problem is not related to MySessions:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-provides-workaround-for-firefox-70-not-loading-sites/
I would give this 3 stars (for decent operation, after all it is one of the few workable solutions to kind of replace the really good Session Manager from older Firefox). I was using this problem-free on Windows 7 64-bit at work. I still use this perfectly well at home on Debian GNU/Linux 64-bit (debian sid).
Then, 2 weeks ago I migrated my work Windows 7 machine to Windows 10, and also migrated my profile.
I had refreshed Firefox before the migration, so I had to install MySessions into the new profile under Windows 10.
What happens is that very soon, within minutes to an hour, MySessions stops Firefox from loading, refreshing, saving, or otherwise doing anything with its tabs. I need to disable MySessions add-on, reboot Firefox, can then work as usual, but need to re-enable MySessions if I want to see a tab labelled as "Replaced" (cannot easily load saved content of tab if MySessions is disabled).
I did not find any issue related to this, but if it helps MySessions is the only add-on I have installed.
On Windows 10 we use Micro Trends anti-virus, whereas on Windows 7 the company had been utilizing Symantec Anti-Virus software.
Since it has become unusable after migration, I am unsure if this is related to an interoperability issue with Windows 10, anti-virus software, or to migration issues. - Rated 5 out of 5by KaxLon, 3 years agoThis session manager works really well.
It can be left running in the background for a very long time. And if you're a person with many tabs and windows open simultaneously this tool will make your online life much more comfortable and less stressful.
And many of us have spent much time each time the computer needs a restart and we need to bookmark all tabs and windows.
This tool solves this easily with just one click.
I personally pair this addon with the addon called "Snap Links Plus" for a very powerful combo to be able to open many links into tabs, and then just bookmark them all before starting a research session.
Say for example you need to do research on a big dataset over at NASA for the latest data and images from Mars.
Snap the links, save the session. Next time you open up the session everything is where it was last time. Very powerful!
Big thanks to the creator of this addon! =) - Rated 4 out of 5by Alexander, 3 years agoНадо тестировать и проверять, чтобы понять заложенные алгоритмы - не все очевидно. Есть баги. Но, в целом - нормально.
- Rated 5 out of 5by karachin16, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Antikapitalista, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SP77, 3 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Marc, 3 years agoSometimes when I click to 'Remove' a session, it deletes the *wrong* session. Also, my date format (yyyy-MM-dd) is not honored for Auto-saved entries. I wanted to report these issues but can't register to mozillaZine (the site is horrible btw, you shouldn't be using it nowadays). I found the source code on GitHub and wanted to contribute (with fixes), but the code is terribly outdated.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoThanks for the noticed bug. The bug is fixed in the new version 2.14.11. Email me about the problem with the date format. balyaev[a]gmail.com - Rated 1 out of 5by Afzal, 3 years agoAbsolute Crap. More like a virus that will disable your web browser and refuse to allow you to delete the 'session' backups it creates. Stay well away and use any other Session Tool created by a competent developer.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15247439, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14538789, 3 years ago这个扩展非常好用,非常喜欢。更新到最新版后出现一个问题。每天第一次启动Firefox后MySessions都会生成备份文件,如何取消备份呢?我没有找到取消备份的选项。
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15200282, 3 years agoNo source code provided despite it is distributed under MPL.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoIf you have installed the extension, then you already have access to the source code, it is not obfuscated. If you do not know how to do this, then you can use the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/crxviewer/ - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14653297, 3 years agoMenu is totally broken for several weeks now. All menu items seem out of place and it's impossible to navigate properly.
This happens in several computers (all running Ubuntu 18.04) and even in fresh installations of Firefox. - Rated 4 out of 5by cello, 3 years agoIt works but I don't know why even when I've disabled all timeline and periodic saves, it is still running a background.js that pops up every min to dump a huge chunk of text onto my FF Browser Console log screen like :
"Array(17) [ "{\"title\":\"tempSession\",\"date\":\"7/8/2019_18:34\",\"tabs\":[{\"title\..........."
and that can fill up multiple screens.
Can CromS improve it by letting it stay idle if all I need is a save when closing Firefox.Developer response
posted 3 years agotempSession is a session that will be saved when the window is closed. It is updated every 30 seconds. I did not comment out the line before the release. - Rated 4 out of 5by kjbaumga, 4 years agoAn essential part of any modern browser for any power user *should* be a session saver. Best substitute I've found for the old session saver. Pretty basic but far better than nothing. As for problems, added sessions often don't show up for me in the interface, though are visible in bookmarks menu. Usually they show up when I restart, so not a big deal. Very grateful for this add-on!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Remelibo, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by februarymourning, 4 years agoThis add-on is really great. I have been using it for a couple of years, now. It is really user friendly and it is great for saving multiple tabs on a subject and going back to them later. I couldn't be without it now. Thank you CromS for your hard work!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12237351, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Boray Eris, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by tacth, 4 years agoHi, MySession seems more robust than Tab Session Manager (TSM uses indexDB; it's json got corrupted so I lost alll my sessions), but maybe you could consider implement this TSM good things:
-'save session on close' option [without using 'save each __minutes', *even when eg the PC unespectedly shuts down from energy failure*, amazingly it usually manages to recover the tabs.]
-it restores tabs according to the Firefox 'Container' each tabs is when saving the session, eg I can have a session with all/some 'Work' or 'Personal' Containers. [Maybe this can't be done in MySession since regular Bookmarks (only for now until new API?) can't save the 'Container' status?]
-it opens the session starting on the tab you were when saved [not necessarily on the 1st tab] eg while being in the last tab (eg 9 tabs, you were in tab #9, opening session starts in tab #9, not in #1).
-if you click to expand the list of tabs of a session, > click on any tab > only that tab opens in the window you are.
Thanks.
Edit: I guess I was wrong about the last point, so 1+star (only used the addon 1 time because from the proposals, at least I cannot forego the containers function.)
The reason for 3 is (using lazy Loading) eg I don't want always to load tab#1, but [in the example, it could be tabb5 or whatever] start in/only load tab9, then i after i close it, Tab8 loads, and so on, until i stop and close the window, without loading the 1st tabs. Without the function, before opening the session i would have to put FFx on 'work offline' before tab1 loads , then put FF 'onlne', then click tab9 etc. (or arrange the tabs in different order before saving the session.)
Thx.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback.
But you are comparing warm with red.
You estimate not expansion and the functions realized in it. You lower the estimate for the fact that this extension does not look like another. It's like saying that Fiat is a bad car because there are no Ferrari functions in it.
Now about your suggestions:
1. The function of saving the session when closing the window I am testing now.
2. At the moment I do not see a way to use containers with bookmarks.
3. Using bookmarks this can not be done. That is, you can try, but I see no reason to spend my own resources and computer resources on it. In addition, it will certainly be a source of additional bugs. In my opinion it is easier to move the mouse and click on the #9 tab.
4. So it was intended. In the view mode, clicking on a tab will switch to this tab. In edit mode, a tab from another session is added to the current session. And how should be in your opinion? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14465740, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jimlochez, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11803080, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13042614, 4 years agothank you. it's a must have in my case.
would give 5 stars but recent update introduced some bugs. 1. whenever I open the browser MySessions options tab opens automatically. 2. also every single link inside this tab opens another options tab.
I'm using FF 66.0.5 x64 and MySessions 2.13.4, Win7 SP1 x64.
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edit: updating 2.13.5 fixed above problems. kudos to the Author for the immediate reaction. 5/5 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14928238, 4 years ago