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Conex by kesselborn

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Review by Firefox user 13455850
by Firefox user 13455850, 8 years ago
It saved my day - after update to FF 57 all my pages from TabGroups were lost, but after installing this plugin they appeared again in the "Default" group!
Thank you very much, I'm now going to learn to live with the "Containers" idea, it looks like with Conex it could work...

Developer response

posted 8 years ago
Did you import a tab-groups backup? It should actually create a container per tab-group and re-create the respective tabs in this container ... so: when importing, tabs shouldn't be in the default container, but in a container that has the same name as your previous tab group
83 reviews
  • by Firefox user 15135020, 9 months ago
    So grateful for this extension. Containers are great, but I wasn't using them all the time until this extension came along and made it not just easy but preferrable.
  • by Jacques Amar, 2 years ago
    One of the best tab group management tools I have ever seen. Anybody looking at my Firefox screen asks me "How can I get this on Chrome?"
    On top of using the container feature of Firefox to create separate tab groups, it allows for easy switching and easy searching.

    I would add a better way to save all the tabs and be able to restore them at precise points, but the rest is just slick and perfect.
  • by Firefox user 17357383, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 16722395, 3 years ago
  • by István56, 4 years ago
    Why isn't it possible to arrange the panels in the order I want them to? Tab groups allowed this. No alphabetical order.
  • by Gruvbox-Dark-Cyan, 4 years ago
  • by Laura, 5 years ago
    Looks like a fantastic add-on, but while it shows up as being fully compatible with Firefox Android, it doesn't seem to actually do anything when installed on Android.

    I'll update my rating after I test this on PC.
  • by Charlie, 5 years ago
    Best container add on I've used. Lots of options and shows all tabs open in all containers in a nice tree. Surprised it doesn't have more downloads but maybe it just takes time. Very nice, thank you.
  • by Ahmed, 5 years ago
    A very nice extension however, I miss a feature where you can re-order the containers both in the settings and the list. Is it something to come?

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    I am currently lacking the time to do big features, especially as my rewrite did not perform well enough :(
    For this specific Problem, there is a work around though: if you go into Firefox preferences (not the conex settings) you can rename the containers. Containers with a leading space (' ') will come first. The more spaces, the higher up. Spaces will not be shown by conex, so visually you won't notice it
  • by Antonin, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14387524, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15138048, 6 years ago
    awesome addons. But is it possible to allow cookies to work across containers??
  • by Firefox user 14957234, 6 years ago
    Terrific extension and exactly what I was looking for! I was previously working with tab groups, but now much more like the containerized approach of Conex!
  • by Firefox user 14700785, 6 years ago
    Thanks so much for this pioneering add-on, and for the huge amount of work you must have put into it! I finally found time to try it out, and - it's taking some getting used to, but it's mostly making me very happy. I won't say how many tabs I had in my back-up file ;) but it brought them all back.

    My only major problem is not being able to figure out how to change the order of my containers, as they appear in the Conex popup - am I missing something? I tried editing the containers.json file in my profile folder by hand, but it didn't work.

    Also - are you - the developer - allowed to change the name of the Conex xpi file in the containers folder to something more easily identifiable? It's a pain searching through the randomly-named list of files to find yours.
    Thanks!
  • by cr0ybot, 6 years ago
    As a web developer, this is the most important add-on for Firefox. If I was forced to remove all but a single add-on, this is the one I would keep.

    I need a lot of tabs open at once for many different projects, and I got used to the old TabGroups feature before it was removed. Conex saved me from Tab Hell.

    Honestly, Conex is even better than what TabGroups used to be. It was a niche and mostly forgotten feature, and so never received many updates or bugfixes. My favorite feature of Conex is that it utilizes Containers, so my different project tab groups can have different persistent logins for sites like GitHub or Google.

    I hope that I have an opportunity to give back to this amazing, open-source add-on.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    wow, that's quite a compliment -- thanks for the nice words
  • by avneeshs, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14541952, 6 years ago
    Great addon, it uses the new Container additions of Firefox instead the old Panorama View. Excellent!

    But please improve following:

    1. When "only show tabs from current container" is enabled and a new tab is opened inside a container group, the opened new tab jumps back to the default group. It is moved to the correct group when a website is entered. The behavior irritated me really much.

    Please let newly created tabs be opened in the current selected container group.

    2. When the addon is used and you open a new tab in which you enter a new URL / search string in the tab, the tab gets closed for a second and is reopened again. This also irritated me much, it's not the default behavior of Firefox.

    3. When I want to move a tab to a different container group, I right click the tab and use "Reopen in container". Afterwards it kicks me to the new container group. Please add "Reopen in container (Background) - This would be helpful when I want to move multiple tabs to a new group.

    Else this addon is awesome. Please fix this and you'll earn 5 stars for sure. :)

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Hey, thanks for the detailed review and the feedback.
    Just some remarks to your point:
    1.) unfortunately this is the only way to implement it -- I would love to change this behavior, but this is due to technical limitations dictated by the Firefox-API
    2.) that's weird (or I don't fully understand the problem). It would be helpful if you created an issue on http://github.com/kesselborn/conex with more detailed information so I can fix this problem
    3.) from conex version 0.8.0 onwards, the "Reopen in container" is not a conex feature but a Firefox-native feature and therefore out of my influence realm :(

    Hope this helps
  • by v.osnovnom.bezvreden, 6 years ago
    this is handy, thanks!
  • by hansentanjung, 6 years ago
  • by TheLittlePrince, 6 years ago
    Great Addon and perfectly done! Unlike other products Connex works very smooth at changing containers. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
    I hope development has not stopped!
  • by Firefox user 10822314, 7 years ago
    This add-on is a life-saviour. So much important that should be incorporated by default in FF. The only thing I miss right now is that my list of tabs is that long I need to scroll to reach some group when I click on that colourful Conex square. Please will someone implement longer list, that can detect screen resolution and use as much space as possible?

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hey: thanks for the review, developer here: the list can’t be made longer due to Firefox capping the max height :(
    Using the search helps field helps a lot making the list smaller though.
    Cheers
  • by Firefox user 14293671, 7 years ago
    Love this extension! Instead of 8-10 windows with 8-10 tabs each, and fumbling around to figure out which one has the tab I need, I can have just ONE window with all my tabs - but only the tabs of the group I have selected shows! The search/history feature is also excellent. Keeping containers separate so I can be logged into Gmail on three different accounts at once, but none of them know about the other. Easily move a tab from one container to another. Just a huge, huge timesaver!

    One question - I'm just now using Firefox Sync on my Android device, I have containers, but when I look for the Conex extension, I can't find it?
  • by Cathbadian, 7 years ago
    I've been using Chrome, a lot. Then this extension was finally released and I could get back to using Firefox with a very good replacement for tabgroups. This extension makes it so easy to keep your browser session organised, uncluttered, and easy to navigate. Massive thank you to the developer! A couple of missing features from tabgroups, but mostly aesthetics and a couple of quirks that don't seriously impinge on the core functionality. Paired with a good session backup solution and Firefox is FINALLY back to where I love using it.
  • by Dr. Clinker!, 7 years ago
    A great alternative of the old Tab Groups addon. However, it seems that this add-on cannot work compatibly with some tab beautifier such as Tabliss. While my default new tab is managed by Tabliss, any new tab I open will go to the `default` container instead of current container. Any suggestion?
  • by piecevcake, 7 years ago
    Its got some bugs, but well put together, well featured, good issues site, and fills an essential gap - transferring tabs between containers. One of the BEST is the ability to search for a tab by word, in all your windows, groups, trees and containers, and jump to it. What a headache saver! :-)