Reviews & Comments of Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager chrome extension

It's the best looking tree tab extension by far. The only problem is that it keep rearranging my tabs. Every time I make a new tab, it appears next to the tab I'm on, and gets put into a subgroup. This would be a 5 star extension if it just did its job instead of trying to rearrange my tabs :|

the best tab manager. Please allow for different windows to be included and not just the current one.

Great idea, pretty aesthetics, user-friendly inline mode... However, why do you rearrange the tabs for me? Every new tab I open keeps jumping back and forth and that disrupts everything.

Rally bad extension.. after installing it, tabs are jumping back and force, new tabs are created sometimes in the middle of the opened tabs.. opening a new tab jumps to the end.. opening a tab by dragging the address bar moves that new tab to the end.. horrible experience before realized that all these weird thing caused by this extension.. deleted immediately and what a relief :)

Looks like this utility has been abandoned and turned into an e-mail farmer and (possibly) mines Monero. Requires an account, the account does nothing but redirect you to a discord link which I do not trust. To those saying this extension stopped them from being able to load new tabs, check your CPU usage in task manager. Mine was pegged at 100% till I disabled this extension and restarted chrome. I have quite a powerful CPU and I only thought to check when my room started to hotbox like when I'm rendering. A malware bytes scan revealed 8 executable's named automatically by the detection tool as "RiskWare.CoinMiner", windows defender corroborated that but only found one instance. I can't 100% confirm it was related to this, but it looks malicious, talks malicious and the project seems to have been abandoned.

Needs a lot of work but I like the idea. If the inline would do anything, if the external mode could move with the side of chromes window and auto minimise (Edit, I've done min and maxing with an AHK script) and also open when chrome is started would be nice and remember it's position before it closed the last time. Currently it does none of those fundamental things. If I click on the tabs in the view they change names to 'New Tab'. Will probably revisit this extension again in the future. Doesn't respect groups in chrome too. Oh, the discord link is not going anywhere and no way of closing the account either when you open one. I hope they don't go giving out my email address.

Honestly, this might work for whoever really needs it but, for me, this really isn't it. I don't even know what Inline mode does, but you have to sign up for it and I really don't want to create an account. As a user, I just want to install my plug in and have it work, that's how installing a new plug-in usually works (in my experience). Also, it took me a minute to learn how to group the tabs. I kept trying to drag my tab on top of a related tab, turns out you have to drag the tab sideways. I also didn't like that it takes a few clicks just to get to my tabs. If I have to skim through multiple tabs, going through that process of opening the window can be tedious. I also just learned that Chrome already has a group tab options. It could use some visual improvements and a couple features could use some work but I think that would be my best option for now. This seems like a great idea, but I don't see myself using it for the moment. I might revisit later.

Inline does not work at all. Trees constantly reset randomly making me have to re-organise them. Works just barely okay enough for Chrome but doesn't compare to TST for Firefox.

Like to see this being worked on but inline made doesn't seem to work at all so I don't see a point in using the project at the moment.

The inline version seems to cause google search tabs to break when you attempt to open the tab manager

Busted. Inline mode doesn't do anything. From looking at other review seems like it's not compatible with multi-monitor.

seriously, 13 USD per month for Dark Mode?!? :D booooooo!

Disappears when you move the mouse, settings menu takes you to a sign-up page. Er - no thank you.

doesn't work and asking for $12.99 monthly subscription? seriously? netflix doesn't even cost that much

I am a little confused.. Installed, but there are no vertical tabs that I can see. Going to "options" on the extension opens some screen that asks me to "sign in"!? I don't understand - I thought this is a vertical tabs extension?! What's to sign in there?

Lots of bugs. It's still in beta but they have introduced premium plans before fixing them. Not good at all. Only the UI is good. Functionality wise the extension is bad.

$12.99/mo for dark mode. It auto hides with no ability to dock. This is frustrating on multi-monitor setups. The options menu is hosted on a external website that you have to sign up for to access. $12.99/mo for dark mode.

Inline mode doesn't seem to work at all with multi-monitor setups and is thus completely inaccessible. By default it should always stay visible with an option to auto-hide. Not matching with Windows or Chrome theme is a huge negative and is not worth paying for a pro mode. Having to create an account to manage advanced features is also of dubious nature on top of the fact that it lacks almost all of the features of Firefox TST.

Dark Mode (a basic accessibility feature) is locked behind a paywall.

This is the first (and so far only) extension to hit the trifecta - tree-style tabs, in a vertical sidebar, with the ability to drag & drop tabs. Took off a star due to a bug: drag & drop works only when moving a tab lower down the list. Dragging a tab up the list doesn't drop it in the desired location.

Great! if I could highlight certain tabs that'll be even better!

The look and feel is amazing, best out of any extension! And it's the only one that provides inline mode. NOTE: when inline mode is enabled, it auto-hides, and you can bring it up by moving your cursor to the side of the screen.

'Inline Mode' (the way most people would use this) literally does nothing. There's no way to bring up the interface at all. Have tried on Chrome, Brave and Vivaldi. Nothing.

from the first few minutes I enabled it, I loved it <3 but it would be awesome to have more themes and of course in-window sidebar and most importantly right-click context menu options for unsuspending tabs etc...

Crashes everything, eats ram like a mf, suspends pages even when I tell it not to. Lacks many basic TST features such as directly closing tabs. Moving the mouse to the side of the screen registers only with a specific stroke pattern. Tabstree (for chrome) is much more spartan, but at least it gets the basics right. This is inferior in every way, just with unearned ambitious of greatness.

The best Tree-style tabs extension for Chrome. Not perfect, but what is? I'm very happy, thanks much for all your work. And great intro/walkthrough video too :)

I like it, but please add some more themes!

This is the best (only?) tree-style tab manager for Chrome. For refugees from Firefox like me, it gives me back a lot of the productivity I had before moving to Chrome. Personally I always use pop-up mode.

Perfect! I've been looking for something to replace sidewise since sidewise doesn't work so well on mac or with chrome apps. And this is exactly what I was looking for! Simple, elegant & integrated :)

Doesn't work with some sites, make them unrenderable, make some google search clicks open on background, does not follow clicks to reorganize nested items in the tree/subtrees. Anyway but still promising.

As of now for chrome no one is better than this.

Its cool but for 2 windows of chrome, it work only for one =(

A decent start, though it needs much more to become competitive with FF's TST extension. As a TST user, this extension needs to match its tree order and the tab order in the real tab bar. Without that, keyboard tab switching isn't possible, and the tree becomes significantly less useful. It also needs a way to control how, in what order, and where in the tree, new tabs are opened, as TST permits. The plans to integrate a tab unload/hibernate function will put it a bit ahead of TST in that regard, though I sincerely hope that comes with sane settings for whitelisting sites, domains, tabs with active media playback, and the like. As for media playback, mute functions are nice, but would be best if the speaker icon were a clickable toggle. Lastly - I see the sourcecode has been effectively paywalled, this is not at all great, though I understand the need to make some profit. If this continues, mention of paywalled URLs should be removed from the description, and equivalent alternates provided, for everything not directly related to source code.