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Session Boss by William Wng
Review by David Maisonave
Rated 5 out of 5
by David Maisonave, 4 bliain ó shinSession Boss is on my top 10 list of favorite Add-On (Extensions). It's like a very well organize OneTab, that automatically saves the tabs without closing them.
1) Session Boss has a superb UI!
1a) It has an option to switch from a pop down menu to a full page interface. I've never seen this option in any other Add-On. Great idea.
1b) IMHO, Newbies should use Session Boss with the full page interface at first. It's easier for users unfamiliar with the Add-On to quickly understand and appreciate all its option on a full page UI.
1c) IMHO, The pop down UI is good for quick access, and for those users knowledgeable with the Add-On.
2) I like the scheduled session backup increments, where it saves the last 4 15-min interval backups, the last 4 hourly backups, last 4 daily, last 4 weekly, & last 4 monthly.
3) It has an On-Change backup, which is separate from the interval backups.
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My Recommended Improvements:
1. Remove hyperlink to "Add-ons Manager", and just display it in normal text. Most users know how to access Add-ons Manager, and the current behavior adds more confusion, where the hyperlink takes user to a new page displaying an error message.
2. On the "About the Extension" popup window, add a hyperlink to point to the extension link, where you have a lot more details about the extension.
2a. {Bug} The [x] to close the popup window doesn't work. Nothing happens when it's clicked. User has to click Ok to close the window.
3. Add right click options on the Add-On icon, which would give user two menu options. (Capture All Tabs in All Windows) and (Capture All Tabs in Current Window). See OneTab right click menu option as example.
4. Add option to capture tabs, and then close them. This would be similar to what OneTab does.
5. Allow scheduled backup sessions to be edited.
6. Add option for an On-Close Session Backup. This would capture all the tabs when user closes the browser. This can be displayed on a new tab, only save the last 10 or 20 closed session backups. If programming automatic capture on close can not be done, then add a button to the right click menu to capture session and close the browser.
7. Add help option. It could just take user to the Session Boss extension link for now, until a page with more help can be developed.
8. Add accumulative backup option.
I was expecting that the hourly backup would be a consolidation of the last 4 15-min backups. But it's a regular backup performed on hourly interval. I recommend adding option that would let user choose to have accumulative backups starting at the hourly interval. With accumulative option enabled, the hourly backup would be an accumulation of the last 4 15-min backups, and the daily backup would be an accumulation of all the hourly backups for that day. Monthly would be accumulation of the days. Have a yearly backup with a 12 month accumulation. The accumulative backup can be displayed in a tree view, where a year node has 12 (monthly) children, and each child has 28-31 (daily) children, and each child would have 24 (hourly) children. At the hourly node, it would display 4 (15-min) children, and those children would display exactly what the 15-min backup displays in the current UI.
1) Session Boss has a superb UI!
1a) It has an option to switch from a pop down menu to a full page interface. I've never seen this option in any other Add-On. Great idea.
1b) IMHO, Newbies should use Session Boss with the full page interface at first. It's easier for users unfamiliar with the Add-On to quickly understand and appreciate all its option on a full page UI.
1c) IMHO, The pop down UI is good for quick access, and for those users knowledgeable with the Add-On.
2) I like the scheduled session backup increments, where it saves the last 4 15-min interval backups, the last 4 hourly backups, last 4 daily, last 4 weekly, & last 4 monthly.
3) It has an On-Change backup, which is separate from the interval backups.
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My Recommended Improvements:
1. Remove hyperlink to "Add-ons Manager", and just display it in normal text. Most users know how to access Add-ons Manager, and the current behavior adds more confusion, where the hyperlink takes user to a new page displaying an error message.
2. On the "About the Extension" popup window, add a hyperlink to point to the extension link, where you have a lot more details about the extension.
2a. {Bug} The [x] to close the popup window doesn't work. Nothing happens when it's clicked. User has to click Ok to close the window.
3. Add right click options on the Add-On icon, which would give user two menu options. (Capture All Tabs in All Windows) and (Capture All Tabs in Current Window). See OneTab right click menu option as example.
4. Add option to capture tabs, and then close them. This would be similar to what OneTab does.
5. Allow scheduled backup sessions to be edited.
6. Add option for an On-Close Session Backup. This would capture all the tabs when user closes the browser. This can be displayed on a new tab, only save the last 10 or 20 closed session backups. If programming automatic capture on close can not be done, then add a button to the right click menu to capture session and close the browser.
7. Add help option. It could just take user to the Session Boss extension link for now, until a page with more help can be developed.
8. Add accumulative backup option.
I was expecting that the hourly backup would be a consolidation of the last 4 15-min backups. But it's a regular backup performed on hourly interval. I recommend adding option that would let user choose to have accumulative backups starting at the hourly interval. With accumulative option enabled, the hourly backup would be an accumulation of the last 4 15-min backups, and the daily backup would be an accumulation of all the hourly backups for that day. Monthly would be accumulation of the days. Have a yearly backup with a 12 month accumulation. The accumulative backup can be displayed in a tree view, where a year node has 12 (monthly) children, and each child has 28-31 (daily) children, and each child would have 24 (hourly) children. At the hourly node, it would display 4 (15-min) children, and those children would display exactly what the 15-min backup displays in the current UI.
128 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jay, 3 míonna ó shinIt does fine in remembering the tabs and windows I saved but when i backup a session and try to reopen it it only opens 10-50% of the tabs i had open, and i have to do the rest manually.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18285282, 4 míonna ó shinBetter than session buddy, the best session manager
Edit: LIMITED SESSION SAVES - 2 THUMBS DOWN - Rated 3 out of 5by Rujin parker, 6 míonna ó shin
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18187107, 6 míonna ó shinUsed to work fine until it randomly decided to wipe all my tabs. Nothing could be recovered. Stay away!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17861056, bliain ó shinAmazing. Best alternative to Session Buddy in Firefox. Supports Tree Style Tabs also. Perfect! I wish it could also restore favicons.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16024671, bliain ó shinVery good, saved me several times. It should be kept up-to-date. Automatic Scheduled Exports would be nice...
- Rated 2 out of 5by Mata, 2 bliain ó shin
- Rated 2 out of 5by Shenandoah, 2 bliain ó shin
- Rated 1 out of 5by laurentparis, 2 bliain ó shinUsed to work ok but today ALL my saved user sessions simply vanished. With no apparent means to recover them. Thousands of tabs lost.
- Rated 2 out of 5by dafFDasd, 2 bliain ó shinHas option to open full page view as default. But no closing tabs nor windows is possible.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Seak T. F., 2 bliain ó shinEverything (GUI, etc) is nice. Except that it seems like it's unable to sync across computer, right?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14983551, 2 bliain ó shinIntially had the the problem off rare moments where all User sessions would get deleted from a crash or update. Incredible plugin though, i love it. Just make sure you get into the habit of always exporting (backing up) all your user sessions few times a week. Nevetheless, perfect plugin.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Hand-J, 2 bliain ó shinits really great if i can merge session, remove duplicate and many operation to clearing up and summarizing my session.... and i cant make storing size more than 99 sessioan?
- Rated 5 out of 5by SouzaRM, 2 bliain ó shinExcellent purpose.
Phenomenal UI/UX!
Unfortunately it has not been updated since Jun 7, 2019 (V. 2.11.2).
Effusive congratulations to the developer. - Rated 4 out of 5by T-01, 3 bliain ó shinIt's good, IMHO the best session manager for Firefox, but the problem is, it just lost all the saved sessions for no apparent reason -- and no, I don't have other profiles, I just checked.
To be fair, most (all?) other session managers seem to do that from time to time, at least judging by user reviews. Perhaps it's more of a Firefox thing than this extension's fault, I don't really know. So it's four stars on trust because I don't know who's to blame.
I wonder how does one make automated backups outside of Firefox to work around this issue. Is it enough to copy the files under browser-extension-data/sessionboss@william.wong? Can they be safely copied while the extension is running, or is that looking for trouble? Or can the export be automated somehow?
Besides this, there's a minor UI annoyance: the buttons icons, which look right in the screenshots, for some reason look horrible here, as if they are being badly resized. - Rated 5 out of 5by nomoreoperaforme, 3 bliain ó shinThis is an excellent add-on but it took me some time how to work it out. Not the most intuitive of apps. But has saved the day a few times now. Best of the session restorers i have tried.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16798532, 3 bliain ó shinIt is somewhat slow in my device, but I just have 4 gb. I love this extension, I'm always use it to order all of my different kind of works.
- Rated 4 out of 5by PBC, 3 bliain ó shinAfter closing Firefox I found a pop-up window from Microsoft was still open. Closing that saved it as my last session so I lost all my pinned tabs. Thanks to Session Boss, I was able to export the current session on my other PC then import it to this one. Everything has been recovered including favicons. Brilliant!
The only downside was that Firefox identified a couple of tabs as having errors and would not allow them to be restored. - Rated 5 out of 5by Andrew, 3 bliain ó shinI use this mainly before closing Firefox before rebooting my computer. The user session save works really well. I live how it saves the container tab being used. Great work - thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14099140, 3 bliain ó shin
- Rated 1 out of 5by TracyBueller, 3 bliain ó shinWas working OK for the most part. Sometimes would randomly lose sessions. But now it seems dead. Clicking the icon brings up an empty menu frame. And FF addons page says it needs containered tabs and asks to delete it, with no info on what containered tabs are or how to activate it....
- Rated 4 out of 5by Imanuel, 3 bliain ó shinI'm really pleased with this add-on! One big issue I noticed today, possibly related to the other review below me (luckily I exported a backup yesterday)... all of my user-saved sessions simply disappeared!
^^ I'm quite sure it happened right after I added a new container name to Mozilla's Multi-Account Containers. - Rated 1 out of 5by 1234567890987654321, 3 bliain ó shinDon't trust this app!
It used to work fine - until today: woke up with my computer having crashed and suddenly NO session was shown in Session Boss to be recovered anymore. Not one from last night, not even a single one from the months and weeks before. I had about 150 tabs open for work and they are now ALL lost!!!!
PS: I cannot even save a new session anymore now, something seems to be completely broken with this plugin... (v 2.11.2) - Rated 5 out of 5by ut0a6c, 3 bliain ó shin