Session Boss
Save and restore browser tab sessions.
Session Boss: Save and Restore Browser Sessions
'Session Boss' is a powerful Firefox add-on that autonomously captures and saves your browsing sessions, enabling you to restore your tabs and windows at a later time. It functions by periodically saving sessions and detecting URL changes. Key features include the ability to save and restore tab containers, lazy tab loading, session grouping, and the capacity to search and filter sessions, windows, and tabs. It prioritizes your privacy by defaulting to exclude private browsing windows from session saves.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 31
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact 
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- tabs
- storage
- cookies
- alarms
- contextualIdentities
- downloads
Size: 346.11K
Email: wi*****@gmail.com
Ranking
# 1,690
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Add-on summary
Session Boss let you capture the session of the windows and tabs in the browser and restore the them later on. It automates the saving of the browsing sessions with periodic saving schedule and url change detection. It supports saving of containers and restoring them.
NOTE: Session Boss 2.10 by default turns off the inclusion of private browsing windows when saving a session. This default is better for user privacy by preventing accidental leaking of private browsing tabs in the saved sessions, especially in the automatic Scheduled backups and On-Change backups. The inclusion of private browsing windows function can be enabled again via the Preferences page.
Feature Highlight:
- Save windows and tabs in sessions.
- Restore a session of windows and tabs.
- Restore individual windows.
- Restore individual tabs.
- Save and restore tab containers.
- Tabs are loaded lazily.
- Group sessions into groups.
- Search and filter sessions, windows, and tabs
- Undo and redo changes by user.
- Scheduled backup of the browsing session in fixed intervals automatically.
- On-change backup of the browsing session when the tab url is changed.
- Export and import of sessions
- Show tab creation/dependency hierarchy (support Tree Style)
Permissions Usage Disclosure: (This extension requires the following permissions to function properly.)
- The "tabs" permission is needed to save and restore the url, title, and other properties of a tab.
- The "storage" permission is required to store and load the session data.
- The "cookies" permission is needed to save and restore the "cookieStoreId" property in a tab. (Note: the "cookies" permission will cause the display of the notice, "It requires permission to: Access your data for all websites," during installation.)
- The "alarms" permission is required to schedule the backup code to run periodically.
- The "contextualIdentities" permission is required to get the container information.
- The "downloads" permission is required to save the export session data to files.
- Some special URL (e.g. file://, about:addons, and about:new) cannot be restored due to strict security policy of the browser. For these, the URL will be shown in a warning page and the user can copy and paste it into the address bar to open it manually.
- The navigation history of each tab is not captured when saving a session. It requires further browser API support. See more
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Saves sessions automatically when changes occur.
- Can restore sessions with the container tab information.
- Useful for recovering tabs after crashes or accidental closures.
- Users appreciate its ability to restore previously saved tabs.
- Good alternative to other session managers.
Cons
- Frequently loses saved sessions and has stability issues.
- Lacks essential features like duplicate tab management and robust import/export options.
- Performance issues when restoring large numbers of tabs.
- User interface is outdated and visually unappealing.
- Does not support private windows.
Most mentioned
- Data loss and disappearing sessions.
- Slow performance and lag.
- Missing essential organizational features.
- Automatic session saving functionality.
- User interface and usability issues.
User reviews
It pisses me off.
by rediffusion, 2024-11-26
Doesn't work at all. This extension is useless and can't save any session. Doesn't support private windows and GUI is buggy.
I don't get it what you have updated there 3 months ago, but it simply doesn't work.
by SedUz, 2024-11-20
I recommend this session manager rather than the one that Mozilla recommends.
Session Boss saves sessions automatically when changes happen, not in a fix time schedule. No unnecessary backups and nothing gets lost.
You can decide whether to keep or remove the current tabs right when restoring a session. It is not bound to a fix setting.
I am very contented with this session manager.
by bege1, 2024-09-19
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Session Boss requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Session Boss is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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