Reviews for Tab Stash
Tab Stash by Josh Berry
Review by squid
Rated 5 out of 5
by squid, 2 years agoI was trying to find an extension that could help me either make my menu bar look nicer because I have so many links it was becoming a bit of an eyesore and I didn't like the look of so many folders across my menu bar. I stumbled across Tab Stash, and it wasn't really what I had in mind but I loved the idea of a vertical side bar that I can toggle open/close so I gave it a go :)!
Tab Stash was much easier to use than I expected (I usually take a long time to figure things out). I personally found it very intuitive! I like how the instructions are detailed yet concise.
I managed to clear out my menu bar and "stash" everything into Tab Stash. I'm still keeping my most used bookmarks along the menu bar, but I'm down from the whole menu bar being filled to just 1/6 of it. It looks so much better now.
I was a bit worried there's no option to hide the "Open all tabs and remove them from this group (hold Cmd to open in background)" button as I feared accidentally clicking that and deleting a whole tab even though I know the stash trash saves for 180 days. Happy that I decided to open a bunch of empty windows, save it as a stack, and test "accidentally" clicking the button; discovered that as soon as you click it, there's an option to "Undo" which restores them immediately. Anxiety lessened!! Grateful for the thoughtfulness of providing that feature.
Special shout out to the "compact" feature; providing customisable options on what happens when you click the extension button; dark/light/system modes.
Really really liking this and thinking about getting Firefox on my phone despite being too lazy to do so for ages, just so I can have this extension synced on my phone.
Thank you to the developer Josh Berry for making this and letting us use it for free. That's very very generous of you. It's decluttered my links/bookmarks, given me less visual strain when using Firefox, and it's extremely helpful.
Thanks so much! ship x
Tab Stash was much easier to use than I expected (I usually take a long time to figure things out). I personally found it very intuitive! I like how the instructions are detailed yet concise.
I managed to clear out my menu bar and "stash" everything into Tab Stash. I'm still keeping my most used bookmarks along the menu bar, but I'm down from the whole menu bar being filled to just 1/6 of it. It looks so much better now.
I was a bit worried there's no option to hide the "Open all tabs and remove them from this group (hold Cmd to open in background)" button as I feared accidentally clicking that and deleting a whole tab even though I know the stash trash saves for 180 days. Happy that I decided to open a bunch of empty windows, save it as a stack, and test "accidentally" clicking the button; discovered that as soon as you click it, there's an option to "Undo" which restores them immediately. Anxiety lessened!! Grateful for the thoughtfulness of providing that feature.
Special shout out to the "compact" feature; providing customisable options on what happens when you click the extension button; dark/light/system modes.
Really really liking this and thinking about getting Firefox on my phone despite being too lazy to do so for ages, just so I can have this extension synced on my phone.
Thank you to the developer Josh Berry for making this and letting us use it for free. That's very very generous of you. It's decluttered my links/bookmarks, given me less visual strain when using Firefox, and it's extremely helpful.
Thanks so much! ship x
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi ship, thank you very much for the thoughtful review! I'm really glad to hear Tab Stash has helped to reduce the visual clutter and keep things organized.
There is good news and bad news on mobile—the good news is, since Tab Stash saves everything as bookmarks, your saved tabs are at least accessible on mobile. The bad news is Tab Stash itself doesn't run on mobile, because I'm not an Android user, and so I haven't been able to properly test and develop it on Android. (And Firefox for iOS doesn't support extensions at all—that one's completely on Apple though, heh.)
I have been thinking about ways of making mobile easier for both Android and iOS users—for example, offering to import any mobile bookmarks you save. We'll see.
Regardless, thanks again for taking the time to write up your thoughts, I was really happy to read this!
Best wishes,
Josh
There is good news and bad news on mobile—the good news is, since Tab Stash saves everything as bookmarks, your saved tabs are at least accessible on mobile. The bad news is Tab Stash itself doesn't run on mobile, because I'm not an Android user, and so I haven't been able to properly test and develop it on Android. (And Firefox for iOS doesn't support extensions at all—that one's completely on Apple though, heh.)
I have been thinking about ways of making mobile easier for both Android and iOS users—for example, offering to import any mobile bookmarks you save. We'll see.
Regardless, thanks again for taking the time to write up your thoughts, I was really happy to read this!
Best wishes,
Josh
604 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by ControlsGuy, 7 days agoI wish the native FF tab sync worked this well from the get-go, but this add-in picks up perfectly where the devs left off. I foresee getting a lot of use out of this.
If I had one request, it would be a checkbox in Preferences to make keeping tabs open when you stash them the default (instead of needing to hold Alt), but that's me.Developer response
posted 5 days agoThanks for the kind words! I'm really glad Tab Stash has been working well for you. I think there's already an open feature request on GitHub for swapping Alt and not-Alt when stashing, but if there isn't already, feel free to make one and I'll keep it in mind! - Rated 5 out of 5by Random Walk, 7 days agoGreat extension. I use two different tab groups daily in my workflow, and it handles my routine quite well.
I saw in a previous review response that tab group integration is already in the works. Being able to open a root folder and have all nested subfolders restored as tab groups would make nested setups a lot more practical.
A couple of small suggestions if you ever look into minor UI tweaks: it would be great to have a way to hide unused action buttons on specific groups (just leaving the restore button to reduce visual clutter), and maybe an option to bind a keyboard shortcut to open a specific group directly.
Thanks for this extension. Keep up the good work!Developer response
posted 5 days agoI'm happy to say that tab group integration is available in 3.5, and you can get pretty close to what you describe with drag-and-drop, by dragging the parent group into the window. I hope to find ways of improving on this further in future releases, but hopefully that helps you right now. :)
Thanks for the review and suggestions! - Rated 5 out of 5by pstasman, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by molnbaer, 12 days agoGreat add-on! The only thing missing for me is a "stash tabs to the right/left" function. I don't always want to stash every tab, and it can be a hassle to choose specific ones or lift tabs back out if i have a lot open.
Developer response
posted 12 days agoThanks, I'm glad you found it useful! Do note you can Shift+Click on the tabs' icons to select multiple tabs at once, which I know isn't quite as tailored as something like "Stash to the Left/Right", but I hope it helps nonetheless! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20158678, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Schnookums, a month agoSuper useful extension for long term storage of links without having to go through the bookmarks friction. Very intuitive to use and one of the few extensions I use day to day!
- Rated 4 out of 5by feudis, a month agoFew keyboard shortcuts available. No shortcut to position the cursor in the search field. Additionally, while typing a search term, the items in the folders are not displayed.
Developer response
posted a month agoThank you for the feedback! Do note that if you click on where it says "X filtered", you can show the items in the folder that don't match your search terms. Hope this helps! - Rated 5 out of 5by Joji, a month agoJosh, please help! I have 87 stashes and counting.
Jokes aside, this is an incredibly well-designed extension.Developer response
posted a month agoOnly 87? You don't want to know how many I have... :D
Thanks for the kind words! - Rated 2 out of 5by Ugarov, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12374321, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SmokeySalmon, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by greenpersonal, 2 months agoNice extension, one issue, in the url bar the icon always stays dark, so it becomes invisible in dark theme. The color of icon changes in sidebar and in extension icon as well.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi, thanks for the review! Yes, this is a known issue that started happening with the most recent version of Firefox. I already have a fix in that will go out with the next release. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17091457, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by aljustiet, 2 months agoI think it would be great to have duplicates in the tab stash.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoI'm not sure exactly what you mean—Tab Stash will allow you to stash duplicates if you explicitly select the tabs you want to stash. However, feel free to open an issue on GitHub if you'd like to discuss further! - Rated 5 out of 5by Carbon, 2 months agoBeen using this add-on for years and it's truly great. Please kindly fix the 'stash this tab' icon on dark mode since it remains black after some firefox update..
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThanks for letting me know, I've made a note to look into it. It seems Firefox may have broken the workaround I was using to switch the icon's theme for dark mode. And thank you for the review! - Rated 5 out of 5by Raygen, 3 months agoBest alternative I've found so far for having workspaces in Firefox. It can sync between devices too since it uses bookmarks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikitamce, 3 months agoРасширение крутое и имеет куча возможностой взаимодействия с вкладками и их экспортом и сохранением. Получше tabs outliner из гугл хром. Добавьте пожалуйста русский язык и расширение будет на 6 звёзд))
Developer response
posted 3 months agoThank you for the kind review, I'm glad you're enjoying it! I do want to add support for more languages, but I haven't yet found the time. Others have already started to help out with translations, so I will try to get to it soon! - Rated 5 out of 5by Dax the Duck, sorta, 3 months agoProbably the best extension of its kind. I really like this thing so I don't need to keep important tabs open forever.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SEBAS204, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by signora's ashes, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14213314, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Aksarnerk, 4 months agoIt's a wonderful add-on. It has a very powerful interface that offers great flexibility.
Implementing the data store in the form of bookmarks is a great idea. It’s a major help in a world where no browser yet understands the concept of ubiquity, the importance of having a robust implementation of workspaces that allow us to maintain consistency across the many computers we might use.
I would just appreciate if it were able to save and restore the pinned status of the tabs. The data layer allows for this; Firefox bookmarks let you assign a tag like “*Pinned”, which in my opinion would be the ideal and most simple way to store this attribute.
It would also be great if we could open a Tab Stash group as a Firefox tab group, or even open a TS group in FF along with its sub-groups (at least the top-level ones; in this regard, TS far surpasses the capabilities of FF tab grouping), accurately reflecting this “tree” structure.
If these features exist, I haven't been able to find them.
In any case, it's fantastic; the kind of add-on you'll find hard to do without once you start using it. Thanks so much, Josh.Developer response
posted 4 months agoThank you for the thoughtful and kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to write this up.
Regarding the pinned status, unfortunately Firefox does not expose any APIs for extensions to use to edit tags and keywords—there's no way for me to store metadata along with a bookmark outside its URL and title. I wish there were because there is a lot more that could be done, but this is unfortunately not an option.
Regarding tab groups, I agree with you—it's a feature I'm actively working on but isn't ready yet. Unfortunately, it's taking me quite a long time due to life getting in the way, and due to the fact that it is a major change to how Tab Stash works internally and how it communicates with Firefox. I also want to make sure I get the feature right and that it doesn't feel bolted-on to how the extension works. So it may take a while longer yet, but it'll happen eventually!
And again, thanks for the kind words, they mean a lot! I'm happy to hear Tab Stash is working well for you. And of course, feel free to reach out on GitHub if anything ever comes up. - Rated 5 out of 5by Dvij D.C., 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19965010, 4 months ago