Reviews for Winger - A Window Manager
Winger - A Window Manager by Lionel Wong
Review by ssssaaaa
Rated 4 out of 5
by ssssaaaa, 3 months agoThis is great. Woud love for there to be a stash button rather than typing it each time.
This has made me switch from my tab manager. Instead I stash windows in my bookmarks bar and unstash using the Bookmarks button (that I've added to the toolbar) or from the bookmarks bar (that I've set to show on new tab page).
Would love for there to be stash and unstash/archive buttons in the app for easier user. That would be five stars.
Thank you!
This has made me switch from my tab manager. Instead I stash windows in my bookmarks bar and unstash using the Bookmarks button (that I've added to the toolbar) or from the bookmarks bar (that I've set to show on new tab page).
Would love for there to be stash and unstash/archive buttons in the app for easier user. That would be five stars.
Thank you!
Developer response
posted 2 months agoStash button added in v2.6.0 🎉
Stash listing/unstashing in the panel is definitely in my wishlist.
Stash listing/unstashing in the panel is definitely in my wishlist.
30 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Raphael, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lej77, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15489605, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18150491, 7 months agofantastico plugin per chi lavora con molte schede e finestre aperte su firefox. indispensabile per il flusso di lavoro!
fantastic plugin for those who work with many tabs and open windows on firefox. essential for workflow! - Rated 4 out of 5by octulio, 9 months agoIt's an amazing addition to my browser. Only complain i have is: why make it so you have to type "/stash" in a box to stash the window instead of having a dedicated button to do that? It feels so contradictory to the rest of the extension, because of how fluid and intuitive it is in general.
Other than that, it is a great extension that feels as it could be a core part of the browser. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jbbr, 10 months agoIt's taken me over three years to discover the existence of this addon, and I'm so glad that I have. In the ten minutes I've been using it, it's doing everything I need and has immediately become indispensable. I'm totally loving the slash command controls.
It just remains for me to install it on all the other Firefox instances I use and perfect Firefox window workflows are enabled everywhere.
Lionel, you are an inspired genius, thank you so much for this; much respect to you. :)
PS: How do we trigger a Mozilla review and recommendation for this exceptionally brilliant addon? - Rated 5 out of 5by Mike Lei, a year agoThe last missing piece of Firefox window management. Seamlessly integrated with the tab bar and carefully designed to every detail. A must have extension if you want to leverage the full power of multi-window browsing!
Developer response
posted a year ago>carefully designed to every detail
I feel seen lol. Much appreciated - Rated 4 out of 5by Pedro CHV, a year agoThis extension is very usefull. Congrat to dev. But... Latest update of firefox crashes recursively because of it. Solved the problem just disabling. Could you solve it please ??
And... I miss a backup option. If you start a new session, all named window groups are lost and you have to rename everything againDeveloper response
posted a year agoSounds serious. Could you please either click support site or email and give me more information like your Firefox version, OS, steps to reproduce the issue(s), etc.
As for the second issue, make sure you have "Open previous windows and tabs" on in Firefox settings. If you need to clarify this issue with more information, please do as well.
Update v2.1.0: Help now mentions this setting. - Rated 5 out of 5by CantStop, a year agoIt would be nice to have /unstash %name% command, so that it would open new window unstashing a bookmark folder with corresponding name.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Claudiu, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17477884, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16924464, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mayowa, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vindikato, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13520013, 2 years agoJust installed the pluggin a few hours ago. And so far, I'm lovin it. Simple and useful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pejman, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by K3A, 2 years agoPerfect, just what I needed! I like how it can be controlled via the keyboard in addition to mouse. It just needs some kind of session management to avoid losing windows (it happened to me after closing and reopening firefox) and maybe storing windows to the cloud and be able to open just one window on another device.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoI suggest using a dedicated session management extension. I haven't made any plans to add such a feature in Winger but I will explore whether it's worth it.
Storing windows and opening them on another device is possible with the Stash/Unstash commands and synced bookmarks! - Rated 3 out of 5by Traegger, 2 years agoI'm leaving a neutral rating of 3 stars, because I did not spend enough time with this extension to evaluate it properly. As soon as I started it, it renamed all of my windows to generic names, Window 1, Window 2, etc. This unexpected bahviour was enough to convince me that Winger is not for me.
By the way, it's also enough to convince me that it's time to take a look at Chrome and Edge. I've had a hard time finding any extensions for Firefox that I can actually rely upon. Something seems to be wrong with the extension ecosystem.Developer response
posted 2 years agoI'm sorry about your experience, which you have emailed me about in more detail. What you didn't mention here is that you were already using another window namer called FireTitle, so no doubt you had conflicting extensions. I'm working on dropping automatic default names, and the option of yielding window-naming to other extensions in a future update of Winger. - Rated 5 out of 5by keedi, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 4567891231239, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14547721, 3 years agowinger is nice, but if I can switch window with shortcut like C-{0,1,..,9} it will be better.
and I think it is a problem that winger will change my window name by default, can I turn off it? because it will cover my previous title when I import windows and tabs.Developer response
posted 3 years agoYou can switch windows pretty fast with: F1 {first letter of window name} Enter. You can even add numbers in names if you like, so you can type F1 1 Enter, for example.
Do you mean that default names change after browser restarts? Yes default names are always temporary as mentioned in the help guide. It's a good point though; maybe Winger can just do without them...
I don't understand what you mean by "import windows and tabs". Please email me to discuss this further.
Edit: I'm warming to the shortcut idea :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13439647, 3 years ago