Reviews of Tabs Outliner

Date	Author	Lang	Comment
2025-02-25	Todd A	en	This has been, and still is for me, a great app. For those of you wondering where the developer is, he is from Ukraine. I haven't seen a post from him in a very long time
2025-02-12	Onkel Morra	en	UI looks like a 90s website and most of the useful features are locked behind a paywall.
2025-02-11	Joel Perry	en	I have always told everyone to use Tabs Outliner, I cannot even recall how long I've used it. I can't recommend it enough. please donate so it doesn't go away! (I am not affiliated with, nor even know who the author is.) If you have never used it before, the short version is that Chrome retains every tab you have open when you close a window without closing the tabs one by one, or reboot with chrome running. Tabs Outliner allows you to see that "cache" of webpages, rename them, organize them, close them and reopen them later and even move them to different chrome windows. Some of this functionality is built into chrome, but this extension puts it all in one web page to easily view every page you have open and manage them as a group or separately. With everything that can be done in a web page now, effective utilization of Tabs Outliner will allow you to manage your open (and closed) webpages to minimize performance issues and optimize your time, by removing tabs you don't need now. but keeping them ready to be reopened exactly as they were when you need them.
2025-02-06	CL Chambers	en	I've used and loved Tabs Outliner for years, but a few days ago, for no reason at all, I lost everything. Years of saved tabs, and hundreds of important ones for every aspect of my life...all because I was apparently naive enough to assume that I didn't have to manually save my sessions on my own to some separate drive as an html file for a more solid safety net, since avoiding such a mundane process was precisely WHY I got a tab manager extension in the first place. What's the point of having a tab manager that doesn't truly "save" and back up your tabs? Unless you pay for it suddenly when it was a free extension at the start, that is. Silly me, I wasn't aware of this at all because the UI layout design informing a user of this in both the Tab Outliner window itself and where the "extension options" link goes are both confusing, convoluted car crashes to look at and an ADHD person's worst nightmare. So my eyes have literally just blocked the massive "explanation" text out for YEARS after skimming it once at the very start, back when it was still free. And so of course I never read any of the new "fine" print (ie. same scrolling wall of text that still hurts to look at for too long) about the paid features introduced for actual reliable backing of your data. But it also just doesn't make sense. Nothing at all unusual happened prior to this loss of years worth of tabs--no hard disk fail, nothing. I have no idea why this happened, as there's no rhyme or reason to it doing this when it worked perfectly all this time--I simply momentarily exited the tabs outliner window itself for a moment, but when I clicked on its shortcut that I keep next to my browser tab in chrome...everything was just gone. Everything. Where did my tabs go, when my browser didn't even crash? And I can't find any way to contact anyone for help--even for a real confirmation that no recovery is possible. So I feel stuck in limbo not quite knowing if everything is gone forever or not, and nervous to troubleshoot in case I end up causing something irreversible where there was a chance for recover data. I can't seem to find any answer from the developer online that isn't last dated around 11 years ago and yet informing other people who experienced the same sudden loss of data with just an "sorry, should have saved it manually, oh well." Has the developer been involved with it in any way since, especially if this was an issue other people experienced too? If there's truly no solution for this, and given what it's done to my years of data out of nowhere, I can't use this extension nor recommend it to anyone anymore, even though I was a truly avid proponent using it everyday for years...and despite willing to have paid for the "backup safety" upgrade, had my eyes been able to digest this extension's clipart and bullet pointed "table of contents".
2025-02-05	Walt Mecleary	en	I have been using for at least 7 years - paid version, I bought early on to hopefully keep the project going. It saves me tons of time for managing development web teams. I have many nodes setup, some are my permanent "go to" everyday nodes for my tickets and project management, some for ongoing projects that might be temporary, some for our company internal documents. As far as people say it is not working, I am using on mac with Chrome Version 132.0.6834.160 (Official Build) (x86_64) - Feb 2025 - Still works for me. I think there is a free version - see if it works for you or maybe there is an extension conflict, I keep my extensions to a minimum these days. If it works think about supporting the project and backing up your nodes to the cloud. You have to take the time and get used to using it. It is not without a learning curve. There is a proper shutdown method I use, not sure if it has been addressed. I make sure to close each browser manually before shutting down Chrome. Else if you shutdown chrome with all browsers open when you reopen tabs outliner will say (tab crashed on date) next to the node next time you start Chrome - I also try to remove un-needed tabs in my everyday nodes, else they can get pretty deep fairly quickly. With a higher monitor resolutions I always have the tabs outliner tab set real narrow to the far left of one of my screens, when I need to get to one of our servers I go to the node I created for that server(no need to remember the IP address, then I can can quickly open up My Zoho node to check my teams tickets. If I need to update our company documents I open My G-Docs node. Easy Peasy. No more bookmarks to scroll though. I do still bookmark the occasion site, more for personal items. And when I do research on any topic I save the browser session with all the tabs as a node if I want to get back to researching that topic or need to reference that research later I have it. And the pro version backups to my Google Drive. I think it is brilliant. The little UI interface looks a bit dated.... but form follows function in my book. It works for me, your mileage may vary....
2025-01-31	AAA3BR	en	I'm testing it yet, but in this few days my first impression is very good.
2025-01-23	Paul Dowsett	en	I paid for this extension, because I loved it. Sadly, it's currently broken, and seems unmaintained. When I click on the Tabs Outliner (TO) icon in the toolbar, the window appears empty, apart from the TO icons at the bottom.
2025-01-13	Jeff Mercado	en	tldr; extension is mostly abandoned at this point, but you can recover your saved data in full Unfortunately, it seems like neglect is preventing this extension from being truly the greatest extension. The extension has mostly been coasting for years on being a great tool and hasn't made any serious evolutions since. If it hasn't reached you yet, the more recent chrome updates effectively breaks this extension completely and I have no confidence this will be fixed. Apparently in my case, slowly features (such as local backups and Google drive backups) have been failing. Last drive backup goes back a year, local backup ~6 months... so it seems all is lost and the UI still doesn't load up. Looking at the extension code, it looks like it was refactored for manifest v3, but it's unclear to me how the update broke it. I'd suggest looking for other ways to manage your tabs from now on. With that said, if you are a current user and need to recover your tabs, the backups are a good start, but depending on when it broke for you, it might not be current. You can however recover the tree state as json and you can pick through that. Fortunately it will be in local storage under the key: onViewClose_lastSessionSnapshot 1. Open the extension (it will be blank) 2. Press F12 to open devtools 3. In the console tab, make sure the context (the dropdown on the top left) is set to "top" 4. Enter the command: console.log(localStorage.getItem('onViewClose_lastSessionSnapshot')) This will dump the json (which should be significantly large) to the console which you can copy to file and recover your data.
2025-01-10	Senthil Gandhi	en	It has a very good data model even though the UI looks clunky. If the developer teams with a UI designer and a good growth lead, this can be turned into a significant product with a ton of revenue I am sure. Only request to the developer for now is to keep it updated as chrome changes versions and code standards.
2024-08-24	Uthai Thani	en	A FIX.... I created a small partial fix for the error that suspended tabs / windows cannot be reopened. You can see the error I got below. If you have the same error in order to (kind of) fix you need to do the following... 1. open the 'Manage Extensions' page and go to the tabs outliner extension 2. click on the 'developer mode' at the top right 3. click on the 'Inspect views service worker' which appeared in the tabs outliner extension box , this will open a DevTools window. 4. Go to 'Sources' and find using ctrl+F the following line of code (currently it is on line 1070 but it might change) - chrome.windows.create(createProperties, restoreSavedWinCreationDone); 5. Replace it with the following code: try { chrome.windows.create(createProperties, restoreSavedWinCreationDone); } catch(error) { createProperties.left = 0; createProperties.width = 1000; chrome.windows.create(createProperties, restoreSavedWinCreationDone); } 6. Press ctrl+S to save. 7. Now try to open old suspended tabs and windows (They might not open at the size and locations they used to before) I hope that helped. Good luck! ------------ 3/10/24 Still having issue with opening tabs and windows, probably problems with the multiple display calculations. ------------ Any fixes of the following error expected and when? still can't recover suspended tabs. when trying to open suspended tabs / windows, I keep getting: "Error handling response: TypeError: Error in invocation of windows.create(optional object createData, optional function callback): Error at parameter 'createData': Error at property 'width': Value must be at least 0. at chrome-extension://eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl/tree/js/treemodel.js:1070:32" Also after the beginning of the issues I backed up the chrome profiles just in case, and actually the extension data disappeared. so need to recover, but can't find in the profiles where are all the extension tabs are kept. Nice extension but after the update few weeks ago there were issues, and even after the update two days ago there are errors

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