Georgy Alaverdyan
Personally, I find this extension quite useless for the most part. I found out about it on the website where people mentioned that it might be a similar extension to The Great Suspender — TGS became shady because of the tracker in new versions. That being said, TGS was a great tabs suspending tool. When I saw Tabbs I thought about a clean and convenient tabs extension with slick UI. Also, it stated that it has TabsNap (which is suspension tool as I understood).
After the download I realized — Tabbs is not a tool I was seeking for and expecting to get. Now let's stick to pros and cons.
Cons:
1. It is a tabs manager but there is no way to group tabs which is a really convenient way to, well, manage tabs Group function is essential for me.
2. The search function is kind of broken: you can't find what you are looking for if the tab is napping (heh). I've tested it and it worked out as I just explained.
3. Shortcuts are broken for me. For some reason, I can just open Tabbs and close tabs in it but that's it. I can't mute and pin. Also, it's strange that you can't do all of that without opening the extension.
4. Feels like the design was done just for the sake of visuals without the consideration of the UX — indeed, the app looks nice but it hurts the UX. For example, the settings are useless. There are no settings or whatsoever. You can't remap keybindings, TabNap could be a toggle instead of the separate page and shortcuts — instead — could be inside the extension. Settings aren't settings because it's impossible to customize the extension. By the way, current Settings popup looks bad.
5. I understand that the devs are using Apple products but why do they push it for everyone? I'm using Windows, so why do I see shortcuts for Apple computers inside the extension? Couldn't you make separate icons panel with these shortcuts for both Windows and Apple? Not a big deal and it breaks the flow. Also, that is a bad design.
6. For some reason, Tabbs starts navigating you between tabs from right to left. I don't know why the devs did it this way because the default way of opening new tabs is left to right.
7. Adding to the bad points of design: you can't move tabs. You need to do it as usual if you want to organize the tabs. That is a must have feature.
8. It's a minor detail but I dislike the way the extension manages pinned tabs — when you pin the tab, it gets a word (Ctrl 1) while it could be just (1). People aren't stupid, they could learn that pressing control and a number helps them switch between pinned tabs.
9. Now the most important detail that should be number 1 but for some reason it's number 9 on my list. Ready? Really? OK, here it goes — you can't suspend tabs manually. Like, what? Why? If you have suspension feature, why don't you allow users to do it? This is nuts. Also, this is the reason why I removed one start from the rating — I needed this feature but there is nothing like that.
Pros:
1. Faster navigation between tabs if you have dozens of them.
2. That being said, the search function is quite handy. It saves those precious seconds when you are in a hurry or just want to get job done as fast as possible. Also, less clicking.
3. Having shortcuts is a good thing anyway. Not all the extensions give you a way to use shortcuts.
4. The visuals are nice. Yeah, I know, I shouldn't add it on the list but that's important for me too. The website looks quite nice and even the extension with all its flows gives a nice vibe — the devs wanted to make the extension pretty. The design could be better though.
Conclusion:
The only thing this extension does is helping you to navigate between tabs if you have a lot of them (more than ~40). Also, this extension might be for you if you really need to search on all tabs at once and pin tabs faster. Otherwise, I don't recommended it. The default way of managing tabs is okay, you won't miss that much. If you used The Great Suspender and you need to suspend tabs and save precious RAM — find another extension.
Tabbs
Yaryna Politylo
唐家三少
Nan Ho Die
lion Shi
Jorge Chastelain
ekarron
宁泊
Steffen Schwager
Samuel Babalola
