Tree Tabs
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Since my laptop had many similar folders, I decided to try 'Import and merge session', to see if it would put at least some of the structure back. It opened a new browser window with a copy of all the tabs from my laptop, rather than merging the structure (so now I have one window with folders, identical to my laptop, and the original window with many dozens of tabs and no folders). Not sure if that's what was supposed to happen?
If there is less than 50% of urls matching between current window and the one from session, then it opens new one. If that happens, keep newly opened window instead. I'm sure I can improve that in the future.
I've also got, in the new window with folders, many tabs which have a URL of chrome-extension://fmbnbepfphepnocngkjfnkadjfjnnlhi/. It has the Tree Tabs favicon, and the 'This site can't be reached' error page. All the pages like that are identical in URL, and there's nothing else after.
Those can be from some extension that suspends tabs, those tabs are not available on your another pc. I'm not going to explain how suspending extensions work in chromium, right now.
Note the version of TT on my laptop (where the session was exported) isn't not the new version. So I upgraded my laptop installation of TT, exported its session (which still has folders) and tried to merge that with my desktop session. This time, 'Import and merge' didn't do anything—no new window, no change to tabs, no folders, etc. So I'm not sure if that's expected or not at this stage.
Hmmm.... If you had no tabs and folders then, no. I have to check it out.
It's supposed to do something I may have some bug. But if you had same folders and tabs, in this case, nothing pops up. I should make some confirmation that session has been merged. If all matched nothing will change and it can look weird You can close just few tabs to see if it actually does something
Finally, importing the full session from my laptop created a new window with folders and tabs as expected, so I will abandon the old session and start from there :).
What can I say... worst case scenario... But at least some kind of backup.
Many thanks again for your work on this—despite the teething troubles, it's a daily time saver for me when working on many different projects.
Thanks I do my best I also depend on this extension I can't browse internet without it
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I found bug in merge function. It wasn't loading file properly. Get new update (2018.05.11). And set in manager backups count and timer for the future -
@kroppy Will we see the extension in the store?
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Not needed session save yet, which is great :).
But I did notice that when I close Vivaldi, and restart, the last active (non-pinned) tab is no longer in the folder it was in, but in the main flat list below all the folders. Is that a known problem? It's not 100% repeatable, but more often than not...
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Not needed session save yet, which is great :).
But I did notice that when I close Vivaldi, and restart, the last active (non-pinned) tab is no longer in the folder it was in, but in the main flat list below all the folders. Is that a known problem? It's not 100% repeatable, but more often than not...
How often does it happen? Was the tab placed in the folder shortly before restart? Like 2 or 3 seconds before? I'm conservative on the hdd writes, so the function that saves data loops every 2 seconds, listening for changes. But it's not necessarily this what is causing it. By the end of this weekend I wan't to release 1.6.1 with some small fixes. Maybe I will change loop's speed and we will see if that helps.
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@kroppy it happens maybe 50% of the time I’d say but weirdly in ‘lumps’ - it will do it every time for a few days then be fine for a few. It’s with tabs that have been in folders for weeks - I don’t often move them, other than to put them back where they should be at the beginning of work. So I don’t think it’s timing that’s the issue.
Happy to try out the next version and see if I can pin down a pattern (if it carries on).
Tx
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Just wanted to let you know, Vivaldi just started up and all my tabs were in a flat list, with no folders, as has happened sometimes before. Went to session, emergency restore from 30-mins ago, and everything back as it should be. Woohoo!
Out of interest, this happened when an app wanted to open a web page when Vivaldi wasn't running, and so Vivaldi was started up by the shell rather than me launching it directly. Don't know if it's related, but thought I'd pass it on.
Tx.
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Out of interest, this happened when an app wanted to open a web page when Vivaldi wasn't running, and so Vivaldi was started up by the shell rather than me launching it directly. Don't know if it's related, but thought I'd pass it on.
Tx.
Hmmmm, only if a new window opened without restoring previous session, then, unfortunately, yes and there is no way around it. To simply explain it; When Vivaldi starts, TreeTabs starts as well, Tree Tabs always, tries to match what is available at startup, and because of this, in this very moment, your Tree structure is replaced if all 3 saved data sets fail to match. In those cases, you have to, indeed, restart Vivaldi, recover its session by any means and load Tree Tabs emergency backup or last autosave. If none of emergency backups work, you can try to merge autosave and if this fails, load autosave to a new window/s.
I'm sorry, I have no clear solution for this, because there is no way to tell if user closed all previous windows and started a brand new session. My extension can't sit there forever trying various scenarios, but I was thinking, maybe I could reboot background script after few seconds if something is off.
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Thanks for the explanation—but just to be clear, I didn't have to restart Vivaldi to recover my folders. I used the 30-min emergency button and they came back fine, and the only tab not now in a folder was the one that the external app had triggered.
If the extension is going to do something in the background, it would be good if it could let the user know somehow (UI spinner, etc.), so they don't try to manually recover things at the same time and somehow break it even more :).
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I've been using this extension on both Firefox and Vivaldi, it's actually replaced Tree Style Tabs on Firefox for me as it's better and more functional in pretty much every way. There's just one little annoyance. The sound indicator on the bottom right part of the tabs' icons will constantly flash when a tab has sound playing, and also if I click on it to mute it. It's annoying enough on its own, but on Firefox, there's also an issue where if a tab that has sound playing gets unloaded (manually or through an extension), the indicator will just keep flashing forever. Ideally, it would be nice to have an option to make that indicator static and not animated, which would also fix the Firefox-specific issue (or work around it). And thank you for your efforts on developing this extension, I can't even use any desktop browser without it anymore.
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Hello everyone, I have test 1.7.0 version for everyone to check out
Check out last file in "Nightly packed zip" on my google drive.
EnjoyCHANGES:
Shortcut to open TreeTabs Sidebar is now F1 (Firefox)
log does not preserve urls for privacy reasonsNEW:
DRAG&DROP TO ANOTHER WINDOW OF THE ENTIRE GROUP
Tree is now tracked in background (but not closing tabs)
Added alt+w shortcut to close a tree of tabs (works only in Firefox, since Vivaldi has alt+w for window menu, I have to find a free one)FIXES:
import window was not showing up
export group and export session had file extension in name
pin tree had bug in setting classAnd thank you for your efforts on developing this extension, I can't even use any desktop browser without it anymore.
Thanks
on Firefox, there's also an issue where if a tab that has sound playing gets unloaded (manually or through an extension), the indicator will just keep flashing forever.
I will take a look at this.
Anyway, it does not depend from me. It means Firefox does not report to extension that tab has stopped playing audio. I will do something about it, as I have unloaded status and I can use that to remove "playing" icon. -
Hey @kroppy, wanted to just report an issue that I'm seeing to find out if it's just me or reproducible.
Running latest nightly (2018.07.09) on Vivaldi over MacOS, I am noticing that if I open a link from an external source (bookmark file, launcher shortcut, etc,) the new tab is being opened as a child of the active tab as opposed to an orphan, which would be expected.
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@kroppy Over the weekend I just had the same problem happen on my laptop as I've had before. Joining hotel wireless, the wifi prompted the default browser to open to complete the wifi login. This is Vivaldi for me, and when V loaded, all my tabs were in a flat list, no folders in sight. I'd be using the laptop happily the day before, and all was well. I tried all the emergency restore buttons (5, 10, 15 minute), but none of them made any difference (all 3 were 'active' though).
I had saved a session from some time ago, so I tried Import & Merge. That did recreate the folders, but all the tabs were just blank pages and the tab names are
chrome-extension://abcdefg...
So, I'm assuming all is lost. I can recreate it based on what I have on my desktop, but before I do, if there's any useful information I can extract to help figure out what's going on, please let me know. I don't actually need to reset the laptop browser session until the end of the week.
Tx
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@o0beaner Hello, I just came back from vacation. I will look into it...
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@dsl101 Oh my gosh... I was on vacation... I'm so sorry... I have no idea what happened tho... I would need to know if chrome-extension://abcdefg..., this "abcdefg..." part was the same as when you enter tree tabs options page, it would give me an idea if tabs were created by an external extension like some unloading tabs extension. If the latter I'm afraid all is lost For example tiny suspender makes arbitrary "internal tabs" replacing original ones, then when my extension tries to recreate them using links, it most likely will not work
On the subject of unloading tabs, I still wait for response from google if they could implement proper tabs.create as discarded to implement my own unloading system...
Maybe anyone could help me? Can you guys vote on this issue?
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=879838#c2
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_source=footer#!msg/chrome/a0x0B9hzBZ0/HsM9jRaACAAJ -
I notice that tab colouring extensions are generally incompatible with this extension. Tab colouring is pretty useful for some power users like me - I use it to highlight the key "important" tabs, "technical" tabs, "howto" tabs, "background" summaries, etc within a tab group.
I know some people like to colour by domain - in my case, all tabs are "default/neutral" and I apply a colour (or reset it) manually, to mark the key tabs while reading others.
Can anything be done to add a "colour this tab" option, or a way that at least some tab colouring extension can work with it? Or is this basically not possible or practical?
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@stilez Coloring is not possible at the moment. Tree tabs are not the real tabs from the browser so none of the extensions can interact with it. Each extension is sandboxed and unfortunately it's just not possible with browser's "Web Extensions" API. Firefox has something to get some colors from tabstrip, but chromium (Vivaldi and Opera) does not.
I have in plans colors for folders, but not for tabs. Sorry...
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Just wanted to report that every time I start Vivaldi, one or two tabs which were in folders appear not in folders any more, and so I have to tidy up each time and put them back where they should be. They also don't appear at the bottom of the list, but mixed in with the handful of other 'non-folder' tabs. I haven't been able to spot a pattern yet, and it certainly isn't the last tab I had open when closing the browser for example.
I think I'm running the latest version of TT, but I couldn't actually find the version number reported anywhere. The Extensions page says Version 100 but that doesn't look right...
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@dsl101 Thank you for testing the nightly builds This time around I uploaded quite experimental version where folders can be placed between tabs as well, but I forgot to put version in manifest.json. Reordering is quite buggy atm. Also drag and drop is not finalized with new structure, so be careful. Anyway, I`ve uploaded a bit more "polished" 1.8.0 alpha version. Please keep reporting anything you find, just like you did now
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Is 1.7.2 the latest stable version? I guess it would be nice to update the original post with this information each time a new version is released as the URI has to be updated anyhow.
Thank you for this wonderful extension. Unfortunately, it's too buggy for me to put it to real use ATM. It looses all tree structure upon each restart.