Experience Effortless Tab Management with Session Buddy Chrome Extension

Holly cow, it just upgraded to the latest version and suddenly the unsaved "Previous sessions" gone. Reverted it back by disabling and installing the unpacked 3.6.4 version. I like the 3.6.4 version. And I will stick to 3.6.4 f-o-r-e-v-e-r. Yep, the search on the latest version is snappier, but I like mine 3.6.4 version. 3.6.4!

The previous version worked quite well, but this extension upgraded without notice, and now the new version doesn't work. It opens fine on a freshly started Chrome browser but stops functioning afterward. It also erased all previously saved sessions. Very disappointing.

Apperently this extension was way better before an update earlier this year. But I didn't know about Session Buddy back then and only just started using it. I love it, it was exactly what I was looking for. I'm able to simply save entire sessions, with multiple chrome windows open, who have dozens of tabs in them. Instead of nonstop loading piles of tabs, windows and what not into the Chrome Bookmarks, which then in of itself start to become an uncontrollable mess, I can just quickly save an entire session and then, if I want to, later on sort things out. On top of it the whole UI is very intuitive and easy to get an overview over all your tabs and windows, unlike the Bookmark manager in Chrome. 5 Stars form my side. As I've read from other reviewers: Apperently sometimes Session Buddy can mess up your saved collections when updates arrive, so it is recommended to export your entire sessions every now and then. I did that and it works pretty easy, since it's just a text file that gets created, that you can later on import again into Session Buddy. I think it's important to not forget to frequently just backup your sessions, then you're good to go.

i guess after update it multiple times removed all my saved tabs. I would like to meet that developer in person.

STAY AWAY. Used to be great, now COMPLETELY UNRELIABLE. I sadly need to WARN everyone on what used to be my favorite extension. SB had some bumpy bugs between browser and extension updates, the latest v4 made a lot of changes people disliked- none of that would matter but for the SECOND TIME session buddy out of the blue DELETED everything i had. No recovery possible, tried everything they listed and some more, the data was literally wiped from chromes and sb data folder. First time it was just as v4 happened, i had a manual backup, and on a hobby profile. This time it happened without any updates, no warning, on important research i was saving and counting on SB. Even bugs on old (good) SB the data was still there- now all of a sudden it likes to wipe data on a whim Devs mentioned some chrome bug as culprit but i find it weird- even chrome major updates never erased SB data that way, and im a heavy extension user- and nothing else gets erased except Session Buddy. For the second time. Apparently the bug restarts as if you had just installed it and in doing so just decide the files on the data folder are worthless and deletes then... yeah. Im unlucky, had numerous instances of cloud services dying on me, stolen account, ever since i went local off-cloud everyway i can- first time a local app(extension), zero cloud just up and wipes my data. I was probably dumb to think it was fluke the first time around. I probably will never trust chrome extensions again, developed a new fear apparently- but i certainly wont trust session buddy again.

My computer locked up so I had to force restart it. When I reopened Chrome all of my tabs were gone... again, 2nd time this month. Last time I was told to email support, which I did, but I never heard back.

Have been using this extension for months now and it's been very useful for me. but it would be perfect if you could add moving or dragging features for arranging collections, folders and links. because I've spent a lot of time just copying and pasting folders and links just to arrange them as I prefer.

Absolutely horrified. Have been using this extension for YEARS and then today, ALL my sessions are gone. Looked for answers and apparently, they couldn't manage some kind of chrome change so they've provided instructions which require you to import old databases. Thing is, the instructions they provide to locate your old collections are faulty. There is no folder titled "databases" on my PC in the location of the path provided by them. Only the new "IndexedDB" All data lost. Do not use.

Very useful with one game-changing prospective feature. One question and one request: Question: Is there a way to search only upon session titles? If so, how, and if not, this would be a nice feature for users with curated and lengthy session names and/or lots of sessions. I recall the original version either had this or it was easier to view the results (perhap thinner element height for the collection names, allowing more sessions to be visible per screen?). Presently, unabridged results can be challenging to sort through. Request: Not to be a pest, as I think this is a common and long-running suggestion, but a cloud-based option would be a game-changer. In the distant past, I rotated/migrated across different PCs; as such, the export/import feature was adequate. Now, my workflow involves multiple concurrent PCs. I doubt that this scenario is unique. I would be happy to pay a reasonable fee; however, I wonder if there is a creative workaround. Could the Session Buddy data be saved in a file(s) in a user's existing Dropbox/Box/Drive/OneDrive, with a settings-configurable drive path? That way, the mess of cloud interface software and the hassle of billings could be avoided, relying instead upon a user's pre-exiting shared drive service. Automatic backup would be a strong side benefit, reducing "I lost my data" or "I can't migrate my data" user technical support requests and providing additional built-in advantages of such cloud services (e.g., version control features). One complexity might be concurrent use errors. A "this file is locked" message on "PC B" (similar to those encountered on Office files on shared drives) might be clunky and annoying if it implies that "PC A" needs to close its browser (and later relaunch scores of links). Better, would allowing concurrent cross-PC use be a such a problem? Could new sessions be saved/appended from multiple end points asynchronously? I don't think recent sessions are autosaved anymore, so that would lower complexity. Perhaps a simple manual "session refresh" (similar to the effect of reopening the extention) would suffice? Or skipping even that with the user simply closing and reopening the extension if switching back to "PC A" (given that "PC B" might have appended or edited sessions). Finally, as a long-time user, I understand the original need for the new version and have acclimated. Thanks for all the work involved in updates, debugs, and general education on misunderstandings around user-perceived "missing" (but not really missing) features.

Someone port this ultimate extension to Firefox. I'm stuck there with 'Tab Session Manager', which is vastly inferior. Btw Hans Meyer, you have godly patience with those comments.

firstly.. it is a very good extension and thank you for developing it...but there is an important drawback of it... it is when we open a saved session it opens all tabs totally not in standby state like firefox do as example when you restore session, the tab opens but in standby state, it means that data on the tab didn't load totally, but loads when you click on tab. that saves much amount of memory and that what aren't done in this extension, it use very much amount of physical memory when you open big number of tabs saved in one session. I hope you can solve this problem and thank you

Sorry. Previous version was much better. Specially to remove unwanted tabs from the history. Click on X and its done. Now i have the select which one i´d like to delete and press DELETE on keyboard. Nonsense

Session Buddy has been a lifesaver so many times, I can't live without it!

Works flawlessly. For someone having >10 windows with 10 tabs on each it is essential to have this. Single click restores all properly. Even window positions on multiple screens (but this is sometimes buggy) Chrome/edge should remember windows and tabs and it does on restart but sometimes (quite often actually) it doesn't restore anything. You can see in history list of closed windows/tabs but to restore them you would have to click on each and every one of those. Session Buddy is just one click.

working flawlessly for class; love the fact it'll save a window and open it again separately with just those tabs!

Stopped searching Greek test (suddenly)

I like the concept of the app, works well and saves time looking through tabs, but if I can add a suggestion, make a desktop app or version of this where you can quickly navigate through software also that's not in chrome, where you can quickly switch from chrome to outlook or something else, etc

I can no longer search in Japanese and would like to request that it be fixed.

I LOVE Session Buddy, and defintely recommend it.... BUT the last update was much better. Please bring back the "Save As" button to save the 'current window' / folder. With the newest version, you can only click "Save", and it saves as "Untitled". You then need to go over to the left side bar, click the 3 dots, and click "Edit". Why so complicated?

I closed Chrome and just re-opened it a few minutes later, and now all of my tabs and tab history have vanished with no way that I can find to recover them. Extremely disappointing! (9-24-2024)

Can open only part of saved tabs. Keeps saying that it can't open it as it's local file, though it's purely online Google Sheets, Google Docs etc. Trash extension, had to do it manually anyway.

completely ruined with latest update. now has spam and spyware included too. used to be good

I love session buddy, but every update my saved tabs get deleted, makiung the extention completely useless. Until the fix it, i will not recomment anyone to use this. There are ways tosave backups to restore if an update deletes it, but the updates shouldn't delete our date in the first place. I'll change the rating i gave this review, if they ever fix it.

deletes all my saved sessions when my junk old PC crashes COMPLETELY DEFEATING THE PURPOSE OF THE EXTENSION. False hope is worse than worthless!

I've been ussing your extension for a few years and it improved my effieciency so much. But since the manifest v3 update, it cannot recognize Korean at all. Cannot search in any of the session titles, window titles, tab titles with Korean. This is disappointing compared to the previous version, which recognized Korean successfully not only when I search with full words but also with some letters of the word. I hope i can see a noticeable improvement soon.

does everything right. the window manager is amazing and sorting efficient.

so helpful every time my computer crashes

I find this facility so very useful

Why can't you choose how frequently you want to do automatic saves? It's only once per month which is pretty useless.

Using it daily for years!!! Can live without it