Reviews for OneTab
OneTab by OneTab Team
73 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17037365, 22 days agoit's good, but you won't love it any more once you lose the tabs stashed
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18370053, a month agoIt work's, and then one day you will loose everything.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Sakhawat Hossain, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by fuzzmanks, 4 months agoI've been using OneTab for years in Firefox and Chrome...and in Edge more recently. It is great when it works but is not stable in Firefox which is my main browser. Constant failure to load extension options. For a couple of years, I could toggle off the extension and toggle back on and it would work. But for a few months now even restarting the browser takes several attempts before it loads OneTab properly. I've never been able to find a help forum...just a help page that doesn't seem to get updated and noting specific to Firefox users. I'm ready to jump ship to another product if I can find one I can live with.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18213334, 5 months agoWas glad to come across OneTab, an answer to an urgent need for something like it. My lightweight Dell 3350 laptop, running Linux because Win 10 is far too demanding for more than one tab, is quite capable of handling the 60 tabs via OneTab.
Great work developers!
However, I cannot see how to organise the tabs - Rated 2 out of 5by tar, 6 months agoTabs in a private window are restored in a regular (non-private) window. This is extremely unwanted, violates privacy expectations, and is non-intuititve, Fetching site information (favicon) from Google without explicit user approval is clearly anti-privacy. Frankly, I am shocked and very disappointed that Mozilla awarded this extension a "Recommended" badge.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoHi, we included a cache of the top 1000 web site icons in OneTab, so that retrieving the icon can be avoided. In Chrome, there is a local favicon cache that we also access before retrieving any favicons, but Firefox does not yet have that feature. We will implement it as soon as it becomes available in Firefox. We are also working on a huge update to OneTab that will remember whether tabs were originally from incognito windows. - Rated 2 out of 5by QHAL, 10 months agoGreat concept but poor implementation. Always crashing, losing tabs, slows browser or becomes overwhelmed by the volume of tabs for stashing. There are other add-ons available that do the same thing, swiftly and reliably.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Orlando, a year agoA great extension for people like me who use a lot of tabs in a single session. But this time, when I updated FF, the tabs I send to "sleep" in OneTab disappeared. This is the first time this has happened with this extension. For now, I have to save them as bookmarks in FF itself.
- Rated 2 out of 5by olliebean, a year agoIt's a good idea, but unfortunately it's missing one essential option - to send all *selected* tabs to OneTab. There are very few occasions when I want to clear away *all* my tabs, but quite often I could do with clearing away a selected portion of them. Without that option, this addon is of little use to me.
- Rated 2 out of 5by mrd83, a year agoUnfortunatelly - lack of left click behavior configuration option AND its default (CLOSE ALL TABS!) makes this extension completely unusable for me.
- Rated 2 out of 5by seanfire99, a year agoStopped working Altogether in all Firefox browsers i have normal Firefox Nightly And Dev Version no longer work also no longer works in LibreWolf as well.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14827504, a year agoIt worked very well in the beginning, but not sure what happened. It's not that it doesn't save my tabs, it's that when I go to the tab where all the tabs are saved, it infinitely loops trying to bring them up. Sometimes it works if I leave it open long enough, but it's mostly miss than hit. It's a shame cause I really liked this add-on, but it hasn't been updated since mid 2022. Could be abandoned, steer clear if you hope for any support or updates.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Lorenzo, a year agoWorked well at first but stopped working after browser restart. Restarting again solved the issue temporarily and allowed for stored tabs recovery. It looks like the extension becomes unreliable when multiple browser windows are used.
- Rated 2 out of 5by wsmwk, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Funboxfox, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by 一切皆苦, 2 years ago微妙。お試しで使ってみましたが、連続で真っ白画面で表示なしが3回ありました。これではタブが開けません。全部消えたのかと焦りました。怖いので使いたくありません。
- Rated 2 out of 5by Pascaloo, 2 years agoEconomise en effet de la mémoire ce qui est appréciable, mais les URL qui figurent dans le signet One Tab ne sont pas différenciés quand ils appartiennent à un même site (mais pages différentes). Difficile donc de rappeler celle qu'on veut.
Le "design" n'est pas non plus au top, ce qui est accessoire. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17086957, 3 years agoLack of option to restor all tabs at once with the same order then before they were agregated to list. For me this is important to have them after restore in the same order as they were before I have send them to Onetab llist.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jason, 3 years agoIt's fairly decent, but losing tabs without a way to get them back is unacceptable for an extension like this.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Wyrdling, 3 years agoGreat addon, simple to use but critically missing dark mode with no third party method to force it to be since "This webpage type" isn't supported by almost anything that tries to edit it's style sheet. Even tried the custom CSS import, but that doesn't seem to work anymore either. With how many reviews I've seen requesting this feature Dark mode seems to almost single-handedly bring it's overall rating down. It's to the point I'm looking for alternatives for eyestrain because of my constant use of this extension. My monitor is only 200 Nit brightness, I can't imagine what higher end monitors might look like.
- Rated 2 out of 5by johnmichaelwu, 3 years agoThis used to work wonderfully. Recently it started occasionally failing---clicking restore would restore only a subset of the saved tabs. This happens infrequently, but is catastrophic to workflow.
I've attempted to reach out to the developers on multiple occasions, with no success.
I would strongly advise against using this extension (even if it works 100% for you), for the following reasons:
- Lack of developer transparency. I've never successfully contacted them. It is also not open source.
- Lack of features. The one feature they have is useful for sure, but they don't support lazy loading, saving the state of multiple windows, or custom keyboard shortcuts.
I'm surprised by the extension's popularity, given that 1. it isn't complex software and they didn't get it right and 2. there's no easy way to reach the developers (is OneTab Ltd. even legit?).
I've moved onto using Tab Session Manager. It seems to have better features and is open source. We'll see how that goes. - Rated 2 out of 5by kjbaumga, 3 years agoI've been comparing session manager types of add-ons, because I use a lot of tabs. With this one, it didn't *appear* to have the "lazy loading" feature, where pages aren't reopened until you click on them. Other session manager-style add-ons (tab session manager, mysessions) have this. I restored 300+ tabs with OneTab, and it used all my memory, and brought the machine to a halt. I waited for all the pages to load, and finally gave up. No one needs to use 300 tabs at once! Doing the same operation with tab session manager (for example), the 300 tabs open almost instantly, with minimal memory use.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Stephan, 3 years agoFantastic App
But has 1 fatal bug.
I tried to restore 12 Tabs. It only restored 2.
No error Message or anything.
The other 10 Tabs are now lost forever. Please look into that.
Would get 5 Stars otherwise - Rated 2 out of 5by Ouro Tayuun, 3 years agoExtension desperately needs better handling of Private windows. OneTab will not on load Private windows, even if given permission to run on them.
Additionally, it can attempt to open itself in an already open private window when selecting "Display OneTab", resulting in a mostly blank but completely useless page.
Finally, left clicking the OneTab icon in the browser toolbar saves all tabs in the current window to OneTab, then closes the window without asking for confirmation. While I do not believe this to be *good* behavior in principle, it's also worth noting that the top option in the menu when *right* clicking the icon is "open OneTab", and it'd be reasonable to expect that to be the default, left click behavior.
Ideally, I'd like OneTab to understand the difference between a private tab/window and a normal tab/window, or at the very least include a "restore/open tab(s) in a private window" option. Hell, failing that, I'd accept a version that commits to the private browsing sandbox: onetab saves you tabs in a private tab/window, and closing out your private session completely wipes it.
In short: addon falls short if your, uh, heavy memory usage tabs are in private browsing windows, suffers from some minor interaction woes, and could use some options to better define its behavior (specifically that left-click on toolbar issue and auto-closing windows (would like option to keep window open with sole OneTab tab open, for example))Developer response
posted 3 years agoThanks for taking the time to make a detailed report. You're right, we had not tested private window interactions enough with this latest release. We've just fixed this in the latest 1.51 release.
We have long wondered whether we'd be over-complicating things to allow tabs to be restored (either individually or as a group) into a private browsing window. So far we have decided not to over-complicate the user interface with private window options, but please do let us know the scenarios in which you would find it useful to restore tabs to a private window, so that we can re-think the trade-off between UI complications and this functionality.