Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
Review by sofiehills222
Rated 5 out of 5
by sofiehills222, a year agoI only downloaded Tab Stash a few hours ago. At first I had some trouble figuring out the icons and how to use it. After a few minutes of playing around, I figured it out. This extension is great! I like the simplicity/minimalistic design. When you know how to use it, it's really easy to use. I would say there is a learning curve, though, which I am definitely still on.
It did speed up my workflow, except for the fact that when I downloaded, I spent quite a few minutes just admiring the look of it all. (not a developer problem, I just loved the look of it :) )
Thank you so much for creating this extension. I also greatly appreciate this extension being free. There are no hidden pay-walls (that I've found) and there are no ads. This speed up my workflow tremendously.
Once again, thank you so much for this. Your effort is being greatly appreciated, and I can't wait to see how Tab Stash continues to evolve and improve.
It did speed up my workflow, except for the fact that when I downloaded, I spent quite a few minutes just admiring the look of it all. (not a developer problem, I just loved the look of it :) )
Thank you so much for creating this extension. I also greatly appreciate this extension being free. There are no hidden pay-walls (that I've found) and there are no ads. This speed up my workflow tremendously.
Once again, thank you so much for this. Your effort is being greatly appreciated, and I can't wait to see how Tab Stash continues to evolve and improve.
Developer response
posted a year agoThank you for the lovely review, I was really happy to read this!
You are right that Tab Stash is 100% free, no paywalls, no ads, no tracking. I built it for fun, and because it was a tool I needed for myself, and wanted to share with others.
I'm really glad to hear you like the design, and that it's been saving you time. I also hear you on the learning curve—if you have any feedback or suggestions on how to make it easier to get started, I'd love to hear them. Even just knowing what you found difficult to figure out would be helpful.
If you have any thoughts or you ever do have any trouble, you can always find me on GitHub: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues/new/choose
And thanks again! Your review brought a smile to my face. :)
You are right that Tab Stash is 100% free, no paywalls, no ads, no tracking. I built it for fun, and because it was a tool I needed for myself, and wanted to share with others.
I'm really glad to hear you like the design, and that it's been saving you time. I also hear you on the learning curve—if you have any feedback or suggestions on how to make it easier to get started, I'd love to hear them. Even just knowing what you found difficult to figure out would be helpful.
If you have any thoughts or you ever do have any trouble, you can always find me on GitHub: https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash/issues/new/choose
And thanks again! Your review brought a smile to my face. :)
545 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by AEZ314, 2 days agoI'm in love with this extension! Would love to see it on Chrome based browsers too (please port it, I desperately need it lol)
Developer response
posted 2 days agoThanks, I'm really happy you like it! A Chrome port is unfortunately very unlikely, because Tab Stash uses a lot of Firefox-specific things. Also, I am not a Chrome user, so wouldn't be able to provide good support for it. But it may happen one day, I won't say "never". :) - Rated 5 out of 5by frostbyte, 10 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by MyFirefox, a month agoBe ye forewarned... do not jump right into this or any other open tab manager if you have a lot of currently opened tabs that you expect the extension to help you sort out.
My fault really, but intending to just look around, I hovered & then clicked to stash on a filtered selection. Not seeing a way to pause, cancel or undo; I could only let it run. How bad could it be?
It not only "stashed" the ~500 tabs from the filtered selection, but threw the other 3200 tabs in with. Then to my horror found that it put every single one of the 3700 tabs into "hidden tabs".
I only learned of this after a frantic race to shut down every other process & service on the machine to free up as much of the 32GB as possible, praying that Fx wouldn't crash.
It finally ended, and after wasting a bunch of time trying to find a solution, have now resolved to spending more time cleaning up the resulting mess than it would have taken without the help of the extension.
Badly needs an Undo. Badly needs Select/Unselect All on filtered lists. There's not even the ability to Tap-Space to keep selecting in a list, it's a slog of one-click-at-a-time. Badly needs a setting to only affect what is selected and don't mess with anything else.Developer response
posted a month agoSo if I'm reading this right, it sounds like you were expecting "Stash all tabs" to stash only the tabs matching the search. That's a fair point; I've made a note to look into this further.
I'm afraid I don't really understand the rest of your post, though, because:
- When Tab Stash hides/stashes tabs, it's not going to use any more resources than before (i.e. your memory usage will stay the same or decrease), so I don't really understand why the rush to free up memory?
- There IS a single-click "undo" for an accidental "stash all tabs", which is to simply unstash the group that was created.
- You can select multiple tabs at once by shift+clicking, just like you would in Windows Explorer or Finder. There's no need to select each tab individually. (And yes, this respects filtering, so you can select an entire list of filtered tabs with one click and one shift+click.)
Anyway, I hope this helps, and if you'd like any more help, feel free to open an issue on GitHub! - Rated 5 out of 5by STAR CRIMSON, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13313160, a month agoI'm sick of this add-on, it lives its own life and constantly refuses to restore the last tabs of the session
Developer response
posted a month agoAfraid I'm not quite sure what you mean here; if you're talking about restoring tabs automatically after a browser restart, that's built-in to Firefox, and not something Tab Stash does. Otherwise, feel free to open an issue on GitHub and I'd be happy to chat with you further to figure out what's going on! - Rated 5 out of 5by Aoshi Shinomori, a month agoI've been a Firefox user since ver. 2 and this is my very first extension review. It's an essential complement to get your bazillion tabs back after an unexpected error or closing the wrong window. Simple and easy to use, thanks Josh!
Developer response
posted a month agoYou're quite welcome! I'm glad you like it. Thanks for the review, I'm honored to be your first. :) - Rated 5 out of 5by fizzxz, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DD, 2 months agoI hope I could have found this sooner! I got rid of other browsers for this. Now I can have my tabs backed up without worrying to lose them. So I can watch my content whenever I can. Totally worth it!
Developer response
posted 2 months agoGlad you like it! Unfortunately a Chrome port isn't likely any time soon because there are some unique Firefox capabilities that Tab Stash uses which just aren't available in Chrome. But I appreciate the interest!- Rated 5 out of 5by cehem, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BasalComet92836, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19010334, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davi, 2 months agoAmazing add-on ! I've found just what I was looking for a long time ! It's a perfect substitute for "Pocket" or "Read it later" add-ons ! And all the tabs are synchronized between devices through bookmarks sync of Firefox !
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bullfinch, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Melinda Josh, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hahn, 2 months agoAbsolutely a crazy good addon that is surely the killer feature of Firefox. I am so amazed how quickly and smoothly this addon can manage 1200+ groups and 36000+ tabs across 20 devices. It's simply unbelievable. Thank you so much for this great addon. Great softwares truly can change people's life in such a positive way.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoYou're very welcome, I'm really glad to hear Tab Stash has been helpful! I'm also happy to hear it's performing well for you; that's something I try to pay close attention to. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18997982, 2 months agoPlease add flag to create with old folder name when search is active instead of the search terms
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Instead of whatever is typed in search , i would like the option for folder names to be created as in Version 3.1.1
Search terms as folder names are too contitional , restrictive to work without affecting stash organization even more when having to manage numerous diverse tabs
The search terms can be regex , random , short , ever changing etc ; they ignore the how often a new folder is created that can be set in the addon options when the search term is changed ; selecting and chosing to create a new folder will just do the same and can lead to duplicate folders if the search terms remains the same , at least in this case the folder names with 3.1.1 format would not be identical ; now if technically speaking the search term would check not only the topmost folder in the stash root but check all top folders (not sub folders) then it would just stash in a old folder where in this case the outcome wouldn't be desired so theres no avoiding this issue
3.1.1 naming format didn't had those downsides and was simple to work withDeveloper response
posted 2 months agoI'd like to better-understand why this is causing you problems; feel free to open an issue on GitHub and we can discuss from there! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18996187, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dodmedium, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18987877, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pine, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by I'veTriedAllTheAddons, 2 months ago