Reviews for Session Sync
Session Sync by Gabriel Ivanica
237 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rei, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kcufuoyeid, 3 years agoIf you have hundreds of tabs autosave feature will use high IO/ disk writing, even while Firefox is IDLE. I mean no user activity, not a single website opened or active, no changes happening. On fresh profile it's negligle. My main profile its hitting up to 36mb every 10 seconds. Given that I leave Firefox running 24/7. This is an SSD killer. For the record I have thousands of bookmarks and hundreds of tabs opened but they are inactive and unloaded. I recently updated Firefox to 100 and have Firefox running in Sandboxie. A workaround for this is to disable the 'autosave' option or change it to a high value like 600seconds (10 minutes). The default setting is absurdly low 15 seconds. I personally uninstalled as I rarely used this addon.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi. I'm sorry that you consider this a bad experience but please understand that your context is way outside of a normal user situation. The addon just tries to save the data into storage and I have no way of configuring how and where that storage goes, it's what the API provides. As regarding the configuration, you have the option to not use the saving at all (disable) or you have the option to change the interval of the saves, there is not really anything left to do, and the timing was set to 15 seconds because most users have a few tabs opened and saving them will not require substantial IO or storage. In your case yes it does not makes sense but that's why you have the options to change. The storage space is just made up of the URL and title of the addon and the icon of the site nothing more, so there's no real overhead that I create other than what it is required for a session.
Please also not that the addon description clearly states that "THIS ADDON IS NOT INTENDED FOR AUTO-SAVING OF SESSIONS!".
Having this in mind, giving a 1 star rating to something that is not intended for your own purposes and in that context of having hundreds of tabs it's a little bit excessive. - Rated 5 out of 5by George Pchelkin, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Victor, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16859933, 3 years agoThis add-on is the best there is for this kind of functionality. After 50 years of evaluating software, I have believe the simplicity of relationship between screen design and functions is responsible for the best software, as long as it works and does the functions. Session Sync does all three well. I have not encountered glitches and it is far superior in user interface and functionality, than any other tab manager.
I had issues with another add-on that did not behave properly and also interfered with Session Sync. When I had this problem I researched and used other tab managers. They don't come close. By deleting the errant add-on, Session Sync is back to working flawlessly and I can dump them!
The developer communicates in a responsive and timely manner, and actually works with you to support the product. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14117175, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Artyom, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15898374, 4 years agoAmazing.
I have been using it for years.
Also open source and without dangerous permissions. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13510862, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aphant, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MGotcha, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Manoj Baishya, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16748649, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15083986, 4 years agoI need to order tabs and not lose them. This extension does that in an intuitive way. You should try.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15051113, 4 years agoSince about a month ago the app started to have an error that won't let me scroll down the session or the content.. No matter how many times I restart my computer and firefox the app won't let me scroll down or up. Maybe it is just my issue? I can certainly use it but me unable to scroll up and down won't let me choose/select/open that aren't showing because I can't scroll.. Anyone else having the same issue or is it just me?
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi. Thanks for the review. Seems that you're not the only one that has this problem. Sadly I don't think there's a solution for it because it doesn't seem to be a problem created by the code from the addon but most probably after a Firefox Update.
See this thread for more info: https://github.com/ReDEnergy/SessionSync/issues/103
As much as I hate the issue, I can't really implement a solution for it because there is nothing wrong with the addon itself. If you try and open the addon view inside the Windows Mode or the Tab Mode you will see that the scrolling works just fine. The issue is related to the Firefox profile you have I believe. Sadly it seems that Firefox updates constantly keep corrupting (for various people) the profile. This might also be a problem created by the same issue. I understand your frustration but there's literately nothing I can do, if the same code works in Tab Mode / Window mode (CTRL + SHIFT + V or CTRL + SHIFT + U) then it means that Firefox somehow broke the Panel mode (and it's not reporting right the information inside). If you would install the addon on a clean profile you will see that everything works as expected.
Thanks for point it out, but unless I can somehow find the issue and investigate more about it, there's nothing I can do. Again, looks like is not a problem of the addon, but I might be able to somehow do things differently to avoid this Issue I will try. - Rated 5 out of 5by Dustin, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Legion, 4 years agoSo you have to sync FF to sync Sessions. I simply want to choose a folder i.e. OneDrive to sync.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sam, 4 years agoAfter Firefox 85 update, it messed up Session Sync but I renamed prefs.js and it fixed the problem. The extension is useful. Easy to add, delete, and access sessions without slowing down the browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Merci Bac, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dean, 4 years agoI have used Session Sync constantly, often, every day for several years. It is completely reliable and stable. Session Sync helps me save and index interesting sites, articles, ideas -- anything that in a passing moment, or after several days of study, seems like it might be useful in the future -- with rich, editable keyword tags -- so I can put these valuable ideas and insights aside in the bookmark library, clear out their tabs and windows, and know quite comfortably, without any doubt, that the material is there on demand. Session Sync assists my creative work, helps me organize and track ideas and inspiration, while at the same time allows me to focus on the work of the day with only the necessary tabs open -- knowing that my library is safe, my work is private, and the saved links are on my own computer, not feeding my interests to some marketing database! Thank you, Gabriel Ivanica, for developing and maintaining Session Sync.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13805896, 4 years agoSorry my previous rating was unfair as I had not read the description of what it does good enough, so I misunderstood. For what it wants to achieve it seems to work pretty well and afaics it doesnt snoop on your privacy, sell information or display ads etc which is something I also appreciate.
My apologies for not taking better time to understand the addon before I rated it.
Changed to 4-stars :)Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi. It's a little hard for me to understand why the complain having in mind that the addon is specifically built for manual saving of sessions AS BOOKMARKS. There's no way that would be automatically because the addon would make firefox unresponsive every 10 seconds otherwise. Saving tens of bookmarks or even hundred is not acceptable for performance reasons. Yes, the addon has another small feature that saves in background everything once ever 15 seconds (or whatever you set), but that's clearly not something full featured and can't be compared with an auto-save session addon. I totally understand that the addon may not be for everyone, but I'm not even trying to promote it to those that want auto-saving :|. The description says that "you can save sessions as bookmarks" not that they are automatically saved.
This addon is intended for those that want control over what and when they want things to be saved and on top of that is made for management using the bookmark system. Don't want to be mean, but I'm not trying to sell the addon as what it's not, so giving it a 1 star for something that is not even suppose to be doing is not really ok. - Rated 3 out of 5by sudo, 4 years agoCool extension, but it does not have the dark mode which is must have nowadays. It hurt the eyes to work with in all-white mode.
- Rated 3 out of 5by PERCE-NEIGE, 4 years agoSessions that never came back. I have the sync feature activated, but I removed for a while the "addon sync" option, it's probably the cause. But it would be cool to have rather a sync via login.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16449509, 4 years agoHas a number of decent futures for manual saving/sorting of specific sessions but is absolutely useless for protecting you from accidental loss of tab information. If you have a lot of tabs open and you'd like some auto-backup of them... this is not for you.
Other add-ons will take regular recordings of your open tabs and/or history so you can restore them later in case of accidental crashes or shutdowns... this does none of that no matter what settings are enabled.
If you're someone that obsessively manually saves your work though this is a great option.Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi. Even though you might expect that as a main feature the addon description clearly states that you have to "Save them", at least that's the main reason of the addon. Now, I really don't know how to describe that better. Getting a 2 star rating for not having a feature that I never intended to add is quite odd.
Of course, there is a secondary aspect of the addon, the history tab will constantly save each 15 seconds (or how many you set) your current active session and you can find it there in case the browser crashes.
Of course things might not be exactly what you may expect, but that I can't change. The addon was designed to work with bookmarks and saving the session constantly into bookmarks would have been impossible. The addon main purpose is to be a session management tool, not an auto-saving session (although it does have that as well in the History tab)