Reviews for OneTab
OneTab by OneTab Team
Rated 2 out of 5
Extension desperately needs better handling of Private windows. OneTab will not on load Private windows, even if given permission to run on them.
Additionally, it can attempt to open itself in an already open private window when selecting "Display OneTab", resulting in a mostly blank but completely useless page.
Finally, left clicking the OneTab icon in the browser toolbar saves all tabs in the current window to OneTab, then closes the window without asking for confirmation. While I do not believe this to be *good* behavior in principle, it's also worth noting that the top option in the menu when *right* clicking the icon is "open OneTab", and it'd be reasonable to expect that to be the default, left click behavior.
Ideally, I'd like OneTab to understand the difference between a private tab/window and a normal tab/window, or at the very least include a "restore/open tab(s) in a private window" option. Hell, failing that, I'd accept a version that commits to the private browsing sandbox: onetab saves you tabs in a private tab/window, and closing out your private session completely wipes it.
In short: addon falls short if your, uh, heavy memory usage tabs are in private browsing windows, suffers from some minor interaction woes, and could use some options to better define its behavior (specifically that left-click on toolbar issue and auto-closing windows (would like option to keep window open with sole OneTab tab open, for example))
Additionally, it can attempt to open itself in an already open private window when selecting "Display OneTab", resulting in a mostly blank but completely useless page.
Finally, left clicking the OneTab icon in the browser toolbar saves all tabs in the current window to OneTab, then closes the window without asking for confirmation. While I do not believe this to be *good* behavior in principle, it's also worth noting that the top option in the menu when *right* clicking the icon is "open OneTab", and it'd be reasonable to expect that to be the default, left click behavior.
Ideally, I'd like OneTab to understand the difference between a private tab/window and a normal tab/window, or at the very least include a "restore/open tab(s) in a private window" option. Hell, failing that, I'd accept a version that commits to the private browsing sandbox: onetab saves you tabs in a private tab/window, and closing out your private session completely wipes it.
In short: addon falls short if your, uh, heavy memory usage tabs are in private browsing windows, suffers from some minor interaction woes, and could use some options to better define its behavior (specifically that left-click on toolbar issue and auto-closing windows (would like option to keep window open with sole OneTab tab open, for example))
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThanks for taking the time to make a detailed report. You're right, we had not tested private window interactions enough with this latest release. We've just fixed this in the latest 1.51 release.
We have long wondered whether we'd be over-complicating things to allow tabs to be restored (either individually or as a group) into a private browsing window. So far we have decided not to over-complicate the user interface with private window options, but please do let us know the scenarios in which you would find it useful to restore tabs to a private window, so that we can re-think the trade-off between UI complications and this functionality.
We have long wondered whether we'd be over-complicating things to allow tabs to be restored (either individually or as a group) into a private browsing window. So far we have decided not to over-complicate the user interface with private window options, but please do let us know the scenarios in which you would find it useful to restore tabs to a private window, so that we can re-think the trade-off between UI complications and this functionality.
1,716 reviews
- by Abdallah, 9 hours agoRated 5 out of 5I never use browser without this brilliant tool + Auto Tab Discard, Thanks guys!
- by Firefox user 16301605, a day agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14981463, 3 days agoRated 4 out of 5I like the app, but there is a nuance.
I cannot select specific tabs and send them to OneTab, there is no "OneTab" item in the context menu of the tab. I have to move the group of tabs to the end, select the previous one, right-click on the add-on icon and select "Send tabs on the right...". Very uncomfortable. - by tato, 4 days agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15078879, 4 days agoRated 1 out of 5When I click "Display OneTab" it never loads. I can't find any way to access my saved tabs.
- by Firefox user 16825953, 6 days agoRated 1 out of 5lost an entire session a few times because of this extension - extremely unreliable and hence dangerous to use
- by Firefox user 16822722, 7 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by leo_soul, 9 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by しのさん, 9 days agoRated 4 out of 5
- by HuntingForPerfectExtensions, 9 days agoRated 3 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15725574, 10 days agoRated 3 out of 5Functionally the Add-on is amazing and I can't believe how I never had something like this for tabs.
That said it is way too bright. To the point where I don't manage my tabs at night because the whole window is basically a flashlight pointed right at me. A dark mode would be greatly appreciated! - by Taboo, 11 days agoRated 1 out of 5Third time I've used this add-on and yet again it has deleted months of multiple saved sessions.
How can this add-on be listed as "Recommended" by Mozilla when it is fatally destructive to users workflows because it is so unstable? It should be removed entirely until the creators fix this glaring failure.
I have saved hundreds of bookmarks in Firefox for over 10 years and they haven't randomly disappear, so why can't OneTab write an add-on fit for purpose? - by Rufous Potoo, 12 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by jagman, 12 days agoRated 1 out of 5About every time you go to a new release of your browser, you take the chance ONETAB WILL LOSE EVERY ONE OF YOUR URL'S YOU GAVE THEM AS THERE IS NO RECOVER process if you have to create a new "profile". There is NO BACKUP. "EXPORTING" them is no protection as they do not let you recover, tell you where they are stored.... Since I used to use it, about every year or two, I lose them all due to no backup, etc. JUST DO NOT DEPEND ON ONE TAB to take care of them. Find another way. In a perfect world, they might be ok.
- by FionnHynes, 13 days agoRated 1 out of 5
- by Jeff Divers, 17 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14376884, 17 days agoRated 5 out of 5Really useful! It is simple but more effective than other very complex addons
- by Firefox user 14525846, 18 days agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14290455, 20 days agoRated 1 out of 5An error cause can't export or import any tabs.
Sync open or delete not work too.
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Github organization - One Tab is NULL. - by Firefox user 13965675, 22 days agoRated 5 out of 5I've used this for years and it has been very convenient for saving many tabs at once. Some bugs over the years but it is simple and effective. Highly recommended if you "hoard" a bunch of tabs at once and never close them at the end of the day.
- by kjbaumga, 23 days agoRated 2 out of 5I've been comparing session manager types of add-ons, because I use a lot of tabs. With this one, it didn't *appear* to have the "lazy loading" feature, where pages aren't reopened until you click on them. Other session manager-style add-ons (tab session manager, mysessions) have this. I restored 300+ tabs with OneTab, and it used all my memory, and brought the machine to a halt. I waited for all the pages to load, and finally gave up. No one needs to use 300 tabs at once! Doing the same operation with tab session manager (for example), the 300 tabs open almost instantly, with minimal memory use.
- by LezBoyd, 24 days agoRated 5 out of 5Wow! This is an extension I never knew I needed! I have more than 300 tabs open at any given time, mostly for reffering to some content later on, and this is a nightmare for memory and processing resources. OneTab neatly put these all in one tab and I can restore and refer to them as needed, then add them back to OneTab when done. Bravo!
Suggestion: It would be great if there some sort of grouping I could do within the clickable list of tabs that OneTab creates. That would really help my productivity increase.