Reviews for Tile Tabs WE
Tile Tabs WE by DW-dev
Review by Cerasus
Rated 3 out of 5
by Cerasus, 5 months ago325 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by ittechca_com, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13699303, 7 months agoThis app needs some work. Great idea, confusing execution.
I have a four monitor setup where I'm switching between monitors a bit. I got this addon so I can keep a browser on my 2k monitor for media playback while I have a browser on one of my 1080 monitors for other stuff so I can read etc and watch stuff without having to navigate a bunch of tabs in a single browser when I want to change videos.
Initially Tile Tabs seems great. When you open Firefox it can automatically recall the windows if you have your settings right. I accomplished this a few times when initially testing it.
Issues arise quickly past that. It seems that closing one window can close all windows created by the addon. This is frustrating because in my use case I already had my original browser window open, and the addon would bring up two windows, so I basically had to move all my tabs from my old window to the two new ones. Closing either window seemed to close both of them.
I saved a layout - exactly as described above, one window with media playback and one with other web pages like articles etc. - and set it to save tabs as well. I have a TV I switch to at night to play videos in bed, and since at that point it's just one screen I figured I should be able to close the text window and keep open the media playback one so I'm not juggling a bunch of windows. Contrary to what I described above, it somehow let me close one of the windows. I remember testing the layout and bringing the other window back up with tabs intact. But when I got out of bed this morning and tried to bring up the window I closed yesterday it's just gone. I tried to reload my layout and it brings up blank windows, no tabs saved. Firefox doesn't have it saved as a "previously closed window". I closed out Firefox and reopened it (I have my layout set as default) and sure enough it brought up this current window as well as two empty windows. Whatever I had open on that browser window is just gone now. All I did was split tabs between the windows this addon gave me, saved it as a layout with the option to save tabs selected, closed one of the windows for a few hours, then clicked the icon to load my saved layout.
Quick menu icon in top left of web page disappeared at some point and idk how to bring it back.
This is an addon that I would really like to play with and see if I can get it to work how I want but I also don't want to risk losing a whole window's worth of tabs again. If I missed something then there needs to be clearer instruction within the addon. - Rated 1 out of 5by suzaku380, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by akasico1, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17151922, a year agoIt does its job but in KDE Neon it works a bit strange, as it often leaves an gap in the left side when doing a 4/4 tilling.
- Rated 3 out of 5by whitewolfcan, a year agoIt is conflicting with Simple Tab Groups. As soon as I activates a Tile layout, it added strange numbers in front of my Tab Group names and tabs inside. The strange numbers remained even after closing the layout. I had to restore from my STG backup to restore the correct names.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 天灭中共退党团队保平安, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Konstantin, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by marlin, 2 years agoit closes my tabs when i try to go back to one window, it doesnt do anything that cant be achieved by just moving two windows next to each other
- Rated 4 out of 5by frostbyte, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by karelt, 2 years agoObviously cannot be as good as the version prior to web extensions switch by Firefox, but as good as Firefox allows us to have it.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17698764, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14673790, 2 years agoAfter installing and pressing the button, extra windows will open and you'll realize this is not the functionality you expected you'll try to re-drag them to their original window, they will close unexpectedly and you'll post a 1 star review
- Rated 4 out of 5by Burtaverde, 2 years agoit's pretty good once you set it up, but i'd need it to allow any size because currently it has minimums and they're way too big for what i have in those pages
- Rated 5 out of 5by Randy Knight, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17576459, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ahmed, 2 years agoWhat's up with the reviews? This is an awesome extension and perfect companion to Sidebery/TST.
It works with most of the features in it too restoring the child tabs as child tabs.
The only features I wish existed here were:
--ability to choose which toolbars to hide by default. I do not want the Sidebar in tiled tabs but I DO want the address bar
--ability to have more control over the canvas where the tab tiles create: for example, I want the tab tiles to create over the full window if the window was maximized but if it was not maximized I want it to use the same canvas dimensions excluding the Sidebar. - Rated 5 out of 5by Danial, 2 years agoGreat extension, does exactly what is mentioned!
Only suggestion would be to add the option for the layouts to simulating Windows snap splitting. If it the extension made the split windows maximized they would work better with win 11 snap groups - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17463203, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13407194, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17410028, 2 years agoAs other people have noted not sure why the reviews skew to low for this extension - it does what it says and I've found it very useful for using multiple tabs simultaneously. Only thing keeping it from 5 star from me is the Toggle Toolbars option appears to be breaking the tiling layout - can't seem to see a way around this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by shenlebantongying, 2 years ago