Reviews for Tabby - Window & Tab Manager
Tabby - Window & Tab Manager by BillK
Review by Cr8zy_Ivan
Rated 4 out of 5
by Cr8zy_Ivan, a year agoI really appreciate Tabby for the ability to Quickly View all your Open Tabs, throughout all your Firefox Windows. As I often have upwards of 10 Firefox Windows open at one time, this Extension allows me to quickly find the one Tab I was looking for.
I do have one major gripe however, which is the reason for the 2 Stars (and apologies for that by the way). The controls and Hotkeys for Tabby are so "User Unfriendly", I just can't wrap my head around them. I've gone through the Hotkeys list multiple times. They're just not the type of controls that stick in my mind. And unfortunately, the only place you'll find the list is here, in the Firefox Add-On store (and Firefox doesn't have quick-links in the Extension Manager that can redirect you to an Extension's Page, and so you're stuck fumbling to get to Firefox's Add-On Store, and then searching for Tabby). I've been using this Extension for 6 months maybe, and every time I try to do something "intuitive" I end up closing a Tab or a Window I didn't intend to. Moving something around, selecting who knows what that went... where?
It would already be an improvement if you could find the Hotkeys list in Tabby's Options Page. And if you could customize the Hotkeys yourself, THEN you'd be set.
I really appreciate Tabby for the Visualization part. And I do use Tabby quite often for that. But as far as trying to move or change anything in the Sidebar, I try not to touch anything. It's a "just look, don't touch" type of scenario, because I just end up too confused afterwards.
***Edit - 2024-10-30: I bumped up my rating from 2 stars to 4. I finally took the time to test out the Keyboard Shortcuts. It makes sense, even if isn't quite instinctive. By clicking on a Tab, Tabby redirects you to THAT Tab, meaning, if you want to Select Multiple Tabs, your FIRST Click must be while holding the Ctrl or Shift Key. Perhaps a slight tweak to the instructions would make this behaviour more comprehensive. In any case, Tabby is pretty good.
I do have one major gripe however, which is the reason for the 2 Stars (and apologies for that by the way). The controls and Hotkeys for Tabby are so "User Unfriendly", I just can't wrap my head around them. I've gone through the Hotkeys list multiple times. They're just not the type of controls that stick in my mind. And unfortunately, the only place you'll find the list is here, in the Firefox Add-On store (and Firefox doesn't have quick-links in the Extension Manager that can redirect you to an Extension's Page, and so you're stuck fumbling to get to Firefox's Add-On Store, and then searching for Tabby). I've been using this Extension for 6 months maybe, and every time I try to do something "intuitive" I end up closing a Tab or a Window I didn't intend to. Moving something around, selecting who knows what that went... where?
It would already be an improvement if you could find the Hotkeys list in Tabby's Options Page. And if you could customize the Hotkeys yourself, THEN you'd be set.
I really appreciate Tabby for the Visualization part. And I do use Tabby quite often for that. But as far as trying to move or change anything in the Sidebar, I try not to touch anything. It's a "just look, don't touch" type of scenario, because I just end up too confused afterwards.
***Edit - 2024-10-30: I bumped up my rating from 2 stars to 4. I finally took the time to test out the Keyboard Shortcuts. It makes sense, even if isn't quite instinctive. By clicking on a Tab, Tabby redirects you to THAT Tab, meaning, if you want to Select Multiple Tabs, your FIRST Click must be while holding the Ctrl or Shift Key. Perhaps a slight tweak to the instructions would make this behaviour more comprehensive. In any case, Tabby is pretty good.
206 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Elizabeth, 9 days agobasically useless, because the scroll bar pops up over the little "x" which makes it impossible to close windows from the menu.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 敬念法轮大法好远离瘟疫, 18 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Tomson, 22 days agoIt would be better if this extension can be integrated with Tree Style Tab.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17998500, 24 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18910714, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by jojojo, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by SweatTechnique, a month agoI find the authorization for “Access your data for various websites” extremely powerful. Firefox explains the following on its website:
“Access your data for all websites
The extension could read the content of any website you visit as well as the data you enter there, such as usernames and passwords.
Extensions that request this authorization could:
Read product and pricing information on a website to find the best price for items you want to buy.
Provide a password manager that reads and writes details of your username and password.
Provide an adblocker that examines the content of every web page you visit to find and remove ads. ” - Rated 5 out of 5by Chillsaw, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 解体中共救中国, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by VioletKbity, 2 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Dave, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13866866, 3 months ago[Later] I hope development continues now FF introduced it's own tab sidebar, it doesn't meet my needs.
I've tried many related add-ons & this is my final choice, especially for easier accessibility. I also rely a lot on visuals due to bad eyesight which causes fatigue. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18484777, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pzl, 4 months agoI saw comments/reviews mentioning "right-clicking the tab doesn't offer the option to rename a window"
I was also confused initially, but I realized that you need to right-click "Window 1" bar in the add-on's drop-down, not the window itself.
My main desire would be allowing me to minimize the windows' lists so I can navigate them in the add-on quicker instead of having to scroll past all the tabs to get to the window I want to rename/manage. There already seems to be an issue on the github repo requesting the ability to fold the lists, but other than that it's a simple little tool I already appreciate. - Rated 5 out of 5by nurohman efendi, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15113849, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13611860, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hasdorg, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12225530, 5 months ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18638752, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andreas, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Oly, 8 months ago