Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager

Last comment is a lie, still have to pay to use the feature it's meant to provide.....nested tabs.

This is a scam. As others have said, it's not free. There are other extensions that do the exact same thing for free. Find a different one, don't fall for this scam.

It's free to download but it's not free to use. You have to pay for a subscription for this extension! That's so greedy. Shame on getforest.

force pay required

says free but doesn't work at all unless you pay. what a scammy behavior

As a developer, I don’t think there should only be a paid version. Developers can have extra paid features or even accept donations — I’d gladly buy you a cup if you actually made solid, free-to-use software. But this? This is just shameless. No free trial, no way to even test if it’s worth paying for. Bruv, I ain’t dropping money on something I don’t know will help me or not. Don’t even bother installing this. Would give a zero if i could cuz i aint even tried it yet so it dont deserve 1 star.

$5.99/mth. No free version or trial. "Free to use. Forever." Untrue and misleading.

Only after installation you will see that using it requires an account. After signing up you are forced to "Upgrade" to a paid subscription in order to use it. So much for "Free to use. Forever."...

Have to create an account to use, Uninstalled.

Forces you to create account to use. uninstalled

Forces you to create accounts to configue. unninstaled

Be careful! I have used a lot of Windows and Tab-Managers and Forest is the only one, which expect to get the "read and change all your data on all websites" access permissions. Pretty sure the provider doesn't bother to explicitly state which accesses they actually need - *so they just demand access to all your data!*

getforest.io has no transparency: - it does not list, which features are free - it does not list the price for this service Therefore, it's easy to decide: Uninstall it. I hate surprises with my credit card.

completely pointless. doesn't save trees between app reload

Opens new tab very bad

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.

Requires to create an account to be able to simply modify own's settings!!! Bin it!

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.

Sign in to your account -) One reason for this?

Ah, a tree tab manager that doesn't put tabs in a tree structure and where the only working buttons are "close tab" and "hibernate"..

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!

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.

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

'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.

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.

Paid and ONLY for current window

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 :|

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 :)

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.

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

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.

lack so many essential features: select multiple tabs, close multiple tabs, re arrange tabs like on tabs bar, always open sidepanel...

I was looking for the tree style tab experience I'm used to from Firefox, but the sidebar can't stay open...

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.

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

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.