Session Boss

Name: Session Boss
Rating: 3.553 (132 reviews)
Author: William Wng

Save and restore browser tab sessions.

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Session Boss is a powerful Chrome extension designed to save and restore your browser tab sessions seamlessly. It automatically captures window and tab states, supports scheduled and on-change backups, and allows restoring individual windows or tabs. The extension also supports tab containers, session grouping, searching, undo/redo functionality, and lazy loading of tabs to optimize performance. Its robust export and import features enable offline backups and easy session transfers.

Prioritizing user privacy, Session Boss excludes private browsing windows from saved sessions by default to prevent accidental data leaks. It operates fully offline without collecting or sending user data. With detailed session management and automatic backup scheduling, Session Boss ensures your browsing sessions are safe, easily recoverable, and organized for productivity enhancement.

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Version:

2.11.7 Last updated: 2024-09-03

Version code:

5802400

Creation date:

2018-03-06

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
storage
cookies
alarms
contextualIdentities
downloads

Size:

346.11K

Email:

wi*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

18 hours ago

Ranking

# 1,759 ▼ 5

Other rankings

#155 in Tabs ▼ 1

#275 in Appearance ▼ 1

#6 in session keyword 51

#11 in mission keyword 8

#114 in schedule keyword 17

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User reviews

Session Boss offers automatic session saving and restoration functionality that many users find helpful for managing multiple tabs, including support for Tree Style Tabs. However, multiple reviews report severe issues such as losing all saved sessions unpredictably, slow performance especially with large tab counts, and a lack of important features like session merging and robust import/export. The interface is considered outdated and buggy by some, with notable stability concerns. Overall, it has useful core features but requires significant improvements in reliability, performance, and functionality to meet user expectations.

Pros

Automatically saves sessions when changes occur, providing timely backup without unnecessary copies.
Can restore tabs and window sessions, saving users from data loss after crashes or accidental closures.
Supports Tree Style Tabs, accommodating users who organize tabs in a tree structure.
Simple and effective UI/UX appreciated by some users as being user-friendly once understood.
Helps manage large numbers of tabs better than default Firefox session manager or some competitors.

Cons

Frequent loss of saved sessions reported, leading to permanent loss of tabs and windows.
Performance issues including slowness during session restoration, especially with many tabs, and high CPU usage causing sluggish browsing.
Limited or missing features such as inability to merge sessions, manage duplicate tabs, multi-tab operations, and no import/export from popular session managers.
UI is outdated and sometimes buggy, including problematic icons and non-functional settings/preferences.
Lack of synchronization across devices and unreliable behavior when enabling/disabling the extension, sometimes leading to session data loss.

Recent reviews

Somehow lost ALL my windows and tabs!

by Firefox user 5974554, 2025-02-08

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

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Session Boss requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

Session Boss is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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