Last years he was posting he was complaining that few ppl were buying, so yeah not many are willing to support him. Even more after what he did, nobody should pay for it even if he'd post again.

@pswiatki that used to happen to me a lot, TO corrupts and we need to reinstall it, then reactivate it. Just enter the URL provided on the license and it will be activated. That works as long as the domain and host are kept paid.

I'm gonna look BrainTool, but it seems to be more a bookmarks manager. For that, Start.me is awesome. Tabs management is very different, it for when we open many links at once and need some time to look all of them, and once closed we won't go back again. And we need to organize them on semantic groups.

For sites we visit often or that we expect to visit again on the future, bookmark manager is better. In example, I have a board on Start.me for all forums I use. I have a widget with links for profile/notification pages where I see any thread that had new posts, and some widgets where I organize most relevant threads that I wanna keep track to. There's no need to keep all that opened on tabs, even suspended. When I open many threads at once, I just open a new window on TabFern and move these tabs to there, and go reading and closing them.

Also don't forget about RSS feed. Sites we visit often, it's easier to keep track of them by RSS so we see at 1 place all new posts. NewsBlur has some annoying issues but also some great features for organizing posts that are relevant and taking away posts we don't wanna see.

Indeed... I see no changelog explaining what was changed and he remains not logging in the forum. I wonder if he had fixed anything, or just uploaded a dummy new version just so that it appears to be updated and more ppl buy the license.

lol tnx for the kind words, I was indeed hoping to have somebody else add their suggestions for alternatives.

Indeed it's very sad it's abandoned, after seeing how powerful it was 7 years ago by reading old posts.

U pointed something important I hadn't thought, the extension is still available on Chrome store and its licence can be bought. 

Indeed, after I had bought it, I think the author had never made a post here. And I'm sure there was no update ever since.

It starts being scam to keep the premium edition available for buying, when we have no support and restore feature is broken.

I tried it 2 months ago and again a couple weeks ago. It's a nice addition, but just doesn't fit my use case. I'm gonna make a new thread describing how I've been trying to replace TO.

Edit: thread created: https://tabsoutliner.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/464-how-im-combining-extensions-to-replace-tabs-outliner

Thinking about it, he had never assumed he was abandoning the software, years ago when the issue was alrdy in course he said he was still working on it, implying that there's some newer unpublished version.

Instead of financial, maybe there was something else, maybe some health issue, maybe he got a fixed job and didn't know if it was gonna last or if he'd turn back to TO. I remember a post he was mad because of a Firefox addon inspired on TO, that was abandoned and he saw somebody accusing him of forcing that, what he didn't. So it seems he does care about TO and some unknown issue stopped him from continuing the work.

We don't know, it's been almost 2 years he doesn't post here and some more months since last published version. Maybe he was sick and didn't wanna disclose, maybe he died and this forum and the domain were paid for some years upfront.

Using Google to register license will be like Xbox Live for Windows, it won't work and nobody wants it. Everybody who wanna use Chromium is moving to other browsers.

Also, IDK if other browsers are able to connect to GDrive as it's done by TO. I think that, instead of using GDrive API, it should just have option to use a local path for its backup. Then we just point to GDrive/Dropbox/etc and will keep files synched.

Same here. So, did GDrive URL changed and the extension needs to be updated?

Looks like author is long gone and haven't even cared to bother helping us :( I guess he himself isn't using it anymore.

It's been 5 years :(

TO is a great software. I only use Chrome because of its licensing limitation.

If u're gonna leave it, please please make it open source so it doesn't die!

I suppose the paid edition was created... sadly it relies on Chrome proprietary licensing system, which no other Chromium based browser will ever support. This blocks TO in Chrome. I'd move to Vivaldi or other browser, if it wasn't for TO.

Now we have another issue to solve :/