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...decided to pay for it anyway just to support the developer. The price ended up being ~14e which is fine by me. What confuses me is that the license is now bound to an email account that is NOT the one I used to sign in to Chrome. It works, so screw it, but it picked an email address and even less happy to share around. I'd very much like to decide myself which account I want the license to be bound to.

Just a few words as someone who recently found this: I do need some form of tab management and I already found one nice option before this one. I thought I'd give them both a try and looking at the videos it seems Tabs Outliner can do a bit more than the other one although both give me lots of tools I really need to manage my browsing.


As you mentioned, picking one to actually use requires commitment. It's not easy to start using a totally new tool and before doing that you need to be sure you actually want to go that way. Finding out there's a "paid mode" I had to figure out if it was something I needed and to consider that committing to this application would eventually mean I would have to buy it. So I clicked the buy button to see how much it'd cost. The next page still doesn't tell me the price or any idea what it'd be, but requires me to provide my email address to someone I know nothing about. I would have to take at face value the claims it's not used for anything. Even more, I can't just use any of the disposable email addresses available to me, it has to be my primary email address (because that's what's bound to my google account). You can appreciate why I didn't proceed. So I went to google around and found this page.

I'm ok with the other tool I found but from a very brief overview it seems Tabs Outliner is a slightly better option. $15-20 is not out of the question if it really IS good but $30 - forget it. I have paid that much for a couple of actual real applications, I wouldn't pay that much for an extension. Even $20 is stretching it but I do want to support developers when they do good work.


I do think you'd get more purchases with a sub-$10 pricing (especially if you are willing to give some indication of the price without having to provide your email address to see it) but I also get your point and the $15-20 pricing doesn't see too excessive (for an addon) but I doubt I'd be willing to put that much money towards "just" an addon. Just let me know if the pricing is about to go up to $30-range so I can just forget about it right away and concentrate on the other addons available.


One of the biggest annoyments right after 10 seconds of using it seems to be that the only way to open the Tab Outliner window is to click on the far right corner - and then scroll all the way to left side. That doesn't make sense. There should at least be a keyboard shortcut for that in the free version, currently starting to learn this is going to give me a carpal tunnel syndrome. :P I didn't see from the paid mode ad that there was a key for that. Is there? Or is there some better way to access the TO?


I still have no idea what the exact cost will be. I guess I'll create a bogus Google account and try with that. :P