Reviews for Workona Tab Manager
Workona Tab Manager by Workona
24 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by dafFDasd, 10 months agoDoes not even list all tabs/windows together to manage them.
- Rated 1 out of 5by serezha, 10 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14406037, a year agoBeing in Firefox tells me to install the Google Chrome extension that corresponds and redirects me there
- Rated 1 out of 5by issam, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by RiffRaffMama, a year agoUseless app. I can't even set up my account! Every time I click on set up account or log in I am just returned to the previous page. It's useless to me if I can't do anything with it!
- Rated 1 out of 5by wolfyname, a year agoWorst tab addon. I've used this for almost a year now for academic purposes. This is terrible. Doesn't save tabs, and seems to lose all my data after updating Firefox. Company seems to be greedy with limiting work spaces only to 3. It used to be 5.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15308694, a year agoWorkona is worst choice for FireFox user. I lost so many tabs.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Farshid, a year agoWorst addon I've ever used.
I have created a session tab for my works and added my tabs that I use for working, after creating that session I have clicked on that session, after closing it my tabs dissapeared and that don't even open again, I have lost all of my work tabs.Developer response
posted a year agoSo sorry for the terrible first experience! We can see that you have a session in our database, which we've restored for you. In the future, if you ever lose tabs you can always restore them yourself from the "Restore previous tabs" option in the workspace menu:
https://workona.com/help/tab-manager/#restore-recent-tabs - Rated 1 out of 5by saevarb, a year agoThis addon will redirect to a workona.com URL with your tab URL as a redirect to revive a dead tab.
This is just not acceptable. I highly doubt this is necessary from a technical standpoint, and even if it was, I wouldn't believe that this company isn't harvesting my data.Developer response
posted a year agoSorry for the confusion! That is just our tab suspension functionality you're seeing. Our suspended tabs take up essentially no memory as all they contain is redirect (no data harvesting or analytics at all). If you're by chance a developer, it should be very easy for you to confirm that is the case.
Nonetheless, you can easily disable this feature in settings here: https://workona.com/0/settings/suspension
However, once you disable the feature, you'll no longer get the benefits of tab suspension, which means that all of the tabs you have open will be using up your computer's memory.
We originally didn't have the tab suspension feature, and quickly realized that it was an essential feature for a tab manager like Workona. You can read more about the feature and the motivations behind it here:
https://medium.com/@qmorgan/keeping-chrome-light-on-its-feet-3f80ac2a3792 - Rated 1 out of 5by Traegger, a year agoIf you've talked to anyone who uses Workon, they've probably told you how bad it is. But you're probably skeptical, because after all, a lot of people seem to be using it. And the Pro and Business versions cost 7/month and 15/month, so people must be paying for something, right? Wrong. The free version is almost useless, and no, it's not worth 15/month. In fact, you'd have to pay me a lot more than 15/month to use this kludge.
It's true. Workona is a surprisingly bad tab manager. The reason it's used by a lot of people, is that its produced by a company with a certain business model. Quality, in the sense of the average user, is not that important to such companies. They need to convince the management of businesses that their software can improve productivity, when used in a certain way.
Also, companies at the mid level, not quite one person operations, but not Microsoft either, have the hardest time hiring good programmers, and they're the ones that need them most.
In sum, if you have a choice in the matter, don't even bother trying Workona; it's a waste of time. Almost any of the other options available will be a better choice.Developer response
posted a year agoSorry to hear you've had a poor experience. Firefox recently made some changes that have caused a few bugs and other undesirable behaviors in our Firefox extension. We are working on fixing the bugs in our Firefox extension (which it sounds like you must have encountered, although you don't mention any issues specifically), and we hope to have them fixed soon. That said, our extensions for our other supported browsers are still rock solid.
To accuse us of not caring about the average user, or having bad developers, is just not fair. It is a very hard and rapidly changing space, and we believe we do better than any other tab manager out there. We care deeply about our users, and anyone that has reached out to our stellar support team to report an issue can attest to the truth of that. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16910372, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 10785628, 2 years agoit's a mess. randomly deletes and randomly opens my tabs
Developer response
posted 2 years agoYou can access your workspace on Android by logging into workona.com in your mobile browser. We currently offer an app for iOS devices, and plan to release an Android app in the future.Developer response
posted 2 years agoWe're sorry to hear you had a poor experience. We automatically backup your tabs within workspaces, so our support team may be able to help you restore your lost links.- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13633717, 2 years agoWhen it asked me to verify email, workona tab was frozen and I couldn't even open gmail in other tab. When I tried to verify mozilla warned me about http website only, final site was https - not sure if this is a problem. It is completely bugged, I moved tabs to workspace I created. And now I can't switch to that Firefox Window, if I click on it, it flashes and disappear instantly. I have to click multiple times, before it switches to it and when I press ctrl+t it creates new windows instead of tab...
Developer response
posted 2 years agoWe have since resolved this issue. We appreciate you letting us know what a bad experience this was in Firefox. Our email links are all https now. - Rated 1 out of 5by Minenhle, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by JerryNic, 2 years agoFirst of all I am really pissed of because Mozilla/Firefox eliminated to keep tabs stored so the automatically pop up every time one opens the web browser. So far this Workona is a pain in the butt to use. I have not yet discovered how to have my five major tabs open. Grrrrr.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16336480, 3 years agoMoving tabs is bugged. Constantly says that there is no internet connection or throws some "unexected error". How tab management is supposed to work without such important feature?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16170613, 3 years agoThe idea is interesting, but the execution is awful.
Lost a lot of my tabs by trusting Workona. They simply didn't reload.
Wouldn't recommend, it is way too buggy. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16313897, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by A FF User, 3 years agoWARNING! EXCESSIVE PERMISSIONS!!! ZERO PRIVACY!!! YOUR DATA IS NOT ENCRYPTED OR DE-IDENTIFIED!!! SUSCEPTIBLE TO PERSONAL DATA ABUSE!!! >>> GET "STATION" OR "FERDI" OR "BISCUIT" FOR WINDOWS INSTEAD <<<
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16133010, 3 years agoMy review is based solely on how misleading Workona is about the privacy of your data. Their "About this extension" section on the Firefox add-on page says "Your data belongs to you and we store it for the sole purpose of providing value to you." That might make some people feel good to read, but it's completely misleading -- they don't technically sell your data, but if you read their privacy policy, they do make money off of it with advertising and use it for advertisers. Their privacy policy also says they don't respect browser "Do No Track" options because there is "no common industry or legal standard for DNT" -- sounds like they're saying they don't follow it because they legally don't have to.
Really disappointed that they go out of their way to say they respect privacy on an outward facing description of their product. Shame on you. Privacy and "Your data belongs to you" means something different that what your company is about, so don't twist words into nice-sounding marketing phrases and misrepresent yourself to consumers.
Small details reveal a lot, and I think this is revealing. But either way, Workona, you should change or remove the misleading description on your "About" page.
And I'm hoping your reasoning for these choices in data "privacy" is not "Well, this is just how the industry is," as if it makes it okay to do things just because other people do them.Developer response
posted 3 years agoWe’re sorry to hear that our privacy policy language is giving you pause about using Workona. We can assure you that we have no advertising in our product and don’t have any plans to change that. We have reserved the right to show you promotions from potential future partners (for example, an integration we think you would find useful), but no data will ever be shared with those partners. And of course, if you delete your account, your data is removed from our servers. Your data belongs to you, and we stand by that promise. We only use your data to make the product work better for you. - Rated 1 out of 5by Jo, 3 years agoStill has some rough edges in Firefox. The biggest annoyance is that the New Tab page doesn't work, just shows a frozen search input, and that there's no option to use the extension to manage workspaces without using it for the new tab page.
Edit: I've tried re-installing after the fix, but I'm still having the problem. The search box on the new tab page is not functional, and there is no option to use a different new tab page while using Workona. Disappointing.
Edit 2: New tab still not working, and now opening workspaces in new windows isn't working either. That's the main feature I use this app for, so it's pretty much useless until that gets fixed.Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi Jo - Our apologies! We've now fixed the issue with the new tab you're describing here. Only users with certain settings encountered the issue, so we missed it in testing. Thanks for letting us know!