Session Buddy

Session Buddy

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What is Session Buddy?
Session Buddy is a Chrome extension that enables users to save open tabs as collections, recover tabs after a crash, manage all open tabs in one place, and search collections to quickly find desired tabs. It is a useful tool for decluttering and freeing up memory.
Stats
Users: 1,000,000+
Version: 4.0.3 (Last updated: 2024-04-04)
Creation date: 2020-05-10
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • unlimitedStorage
  • storage
  • alarms
Size: 424.96K
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Summary

PLEASE READ THE UPGRADE FAQ BEFORE REVIEWING: https://sessionbuddy.com/v4-faq

The new version of Session Buddy brings a ton of new features but also some changes to what you may be used to.

We are listening to your feedback and have already published 3 follow-up releases to address your top concerns. More adjustments are on the way. See our release page:

https://sessionbuddy.com/releases/

Thank you for your incredible support and patience!

Session Buddy is a tab manager that allows you to:

● Save open tabs as collections that can be easily restored later. Great for freeing up memory and avoiding clutter.

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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Organizing tabs and sessions
  • History panel
  • Flexibility to create collections from search results or history events
Cons
  • Auto-update causing data loss
  • Inability to restore or find lost session data
  • Unintuitive UI for some users
Most mentioned
  • Auto-update causing data loss
  • Lost or disappeared session data
  • Challenges with using the new version
Recent reviews
Please bring back the option to save export in different file formats. The ability to pick and choose saved sessions/collections for export. Definitely the option to remove duplicate folders across collections. Allowing for seamless import to a web browser's bookmarks and vice versa. If some of this is already possible, I'm still figuring it out.
by Master Dilbert Master Dilbert, 2024-06-10

Writing this after losing months worth of bookmarks just a few minutes ago. Including some on a pretty important project I've been working on ahead of a milestone tomorrow. I was using Session Buddy just as I would any other day of the week. I did nothing differently. There's just no excuse for me to save a session and reboot my Mac because it had been a few weeks and then POOF. Gone. I've been on version 4 for a few weeks now. My initial migration was bumpy but ultimately successful. All was fine until I rebooted Mac OS today for the first since. Yes, I found the DB file cited in all of the documentation. It was overwritten to 0 with no sign of a different version anywhere to be found. I've checked every folder as advised in the documentation. I've used my most powerful file search tools. It's gone. Since my last backup was 2 months ago all my research on two specific projects are also gone. This has been such a frustrating experience over the last few weeks that I'm going to finally say goodbye to this tool and go straight to Zotero until I find a new suitable middle man. Edit: To be fair...I'll up it 1 star to 2.. Because I suspect Brave is at least partially to blame here? I was signed out of all of my accounts after the reboot. But it is worth nothing that all other plugins kept their data intact after the reboot. Session Buddy is the only one that the data just disappeared.
by Joao Barbosa Joao Barbosa, 2024-06-10

New version is making more damage than being useful. After the update, all my years of session data have disappeared. There is no way of restoring it back or find it manually on folders. And there is nothing useful on History button also.
by Parth Patel Parth Patel, 2024-06-09
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Safety
Risk impact

Session Buddy may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Session Buddy has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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