How To: Share Tabs Between Devices / Send Tab to Computer
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Any way to sync all Android tabs without having to go to each one individually? I have about 200 open on Android, as I had the intention of transferring them all over to my desktop. But seem as though I have to go and tap on a tab on Android to sort of wake it up for sync'ing over to the desktop. Then it shows up in my cloud icon on the desktop.
Would be great to get all of the tabs in one fell swoop!
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@mrvreg
Hi, check the cloud icon right top near the trash can, there are all devices listed and you can "Open all" from your Android device.
By the way, sync is not working at moment.
I guess the admins are working on it, as usual on Sunday morning.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Hello, is that nowadays no more extra steps requires in order to send tab from desktop to Android handheld?
Just by installing latest version, setup sync from desktop is okay?
I have issue from day one until now unable to right click send tab as I do not see my Android device have there.
Thank you very much.
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@eeeemc
Hi, no extra steps needed but it need some time to get all synced.
I had to wait several hours to get a mobile device pop up in the list once.
You can restart your mobile to get a fresh complete sync or open vivaldi://sync-internals
and click Stop sync button. It should be restart sync automatically.
On PC restart Vivaldi is enough.Cheers, mib
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Hi,
After those steps, if necessary,
Go to Settings > Sync >Reset Sync Server Data
and restart the Browsers - It will keep local Data -.Then reenable Sync.
Before, You can BackUp your current Profile on Desktop following the Tip, and the Android one if it's Rooted or has a Manufacture's Root BackUp App.
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"Off Topic Tip"
Follow the Signature's Backup | Reset link.
Take the opportunity to start a Backup plan and even create a Template Profile.
Windows 7 (x64)
Vivaldi Backup | Reset + Extra Steps -
hi @mib2berlin !
thanks for your help back in December. seems that i'm still not getting full sync'ing. only some tabs from my android are getting to the "cloud" on my mac. the cloud icon works at the top right.....just that it's telling me only 18 tabs on my android. but i know i have close to 100. yes, lots, i know. a big part of why i was hoping to sync, in full. so that i could pare that number down more easily from my computer.
not sure if this is related..... but interestingly, on my android for the last couple of weeks..... when i go to a webpage in vivaldi, the tabs that i have open speed-scroll from right to left (just the tab bar is scrolling/racing by). the page i am opening still opens, albeit slowly. and the tab bar racing along is rather distracting.
first world problems. but any thoughts on what might be going on?
hoping to avoid a full-on "close all tabs" on android. and hoping to also avoid having to tap into each open tab individually (on android).
thanks!
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@mib2berlin a quick update..... i saw that i was getting a "upload conflict with another client's data" or something like that. so i did a reset sync data on both the android and the mac. and now it tells me "Success" on the mac for both upload and download. but still only syncing a handful of tabs, that i have tapped to open and therefore reload on android. hmmmm
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@mrvreg
Hi, I use 1-3 tabs on Android and rarely more than 20 on desktop but I start a test with 20 tabs on desktop. Waiting now for syncing to Android then I will try to sync back to desktop.
I have 4 tabs open on Android but there is only one showing up on the desktop after 10 minutes. I will wait for the next hour or so and give you feedback then.Cheers, mib
EDIT: The 20 tabs shows up immediately on my second desktop, something is wrong.
EDIT2: After restart my mobile a second time all tabs from my mobile are showing up on my desktop. Seams to work only if you restart your mobile or need weeks to update.
EDIT3: Desktop open all tabs in a new window, this is not the expected action. -
It's 2021. Is there better doc on how sync'ed tabs are supposed to work?
On Android, when I right click address bar the share option brings up the standard Android share dialog, the only appearance of vivaldi is for 'vivaldi print', and is pdf related.
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@mib2berlin said in How To: Share Tabs Between Devices / Send Tab to Computer:
@mrvreg
Hi, check the cloud icon right top near the trash can, there are all devices listed and you can "Open all" from your Android device.
By the way, sync is not working at moment.
I guess the admins are working on it, as usual on Sunday morning.Cheers, mib
@mib2berlin said in How To: Share Tabs Between Devices / Send Tab to Computer:
@mrvreg
Hi, check the cloud icon right top near the trash can, there are all devices listed and you can "Open all" from your Android device.
By the way, sync is not working at moment.
I guess the admins are working on it, as usual on Sunday morning.Cheers, mib
I really hope future update send tab to devices come standard out of the box so that we do not need to do any extra setting.
I can ever use this function from my Vivaldi desktop from a right click. It's just nothing in there in the right click conext menu I can see if I can send the tab to my Android Vivaldi.
Thank you very much.
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@eeeemc
Hi, then sync is not working correctly, RMB menu shows both of my mobiles.
Open vivaldi://sync-internals and hit ""Request start" button, it restart sync.
In the tab "Sync Node Browser" is device info, there are all synced devices listed.
To get a real restart on mobile restart the device.
This is a known issue and the team is working on it.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Thanks !!!
Below is what I can see.
Also, what you meant " In the tab Sync Node Browser" ........." cannot catch you meaning.
Thank you very much.
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@eeeemc
For me it looks like:Ignore the red lines.
I meant to open it at your desktop system but does not matter, the list should be the same on both.Cheers, mib
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Lol, it doesn't work for me, it's funny that it's way easier to make it work if I share the webpage to "Continue on PC" and it opens up automatically as a Microsoft Edge New Tab
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THanks for your post otherwise I could not have went back to check send to device and found it is now here on desktop Vivaldi.
However, I do not seems seeing the page I sent from both my realme phone & Samsung phone.
What to do ?
** May be you try update Vivaldi to see if send to device is appear on your desktop
Thank you very much.
edmond.
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Sorry forget all my below as I just found this was from Google Chrome Browser., and not from Vivaldi..................
> THanks for your post otherwise I could not have went back to check send to device and found it is now here on desktop Vivaldi. > > However, I do not seems seeing the page I sent from both my realme phone & Samsung phone. > > What to do ? > > ** May be you try update Vivaldi to see if send to device is appear on your desktop > > Thank you very much.~~~~~~ > edmond. > ![Screenshot - 5_3_2021 , 9_59_35 AM.png](/assets/uploads/files/1620007306300-screenshot-5_3_2021-9_59_35-am.png)
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Recently I started to use Vivaldi daily, having tried it many times along the years. I use Firefox as my main desktop and android browser, and it works like a charm, but recently there seems to be some compatibility issue with some website, and so i use Vivaldi along with it. I've also been using Brave on mobile, but it's dark mode is very slow and does not work as well as Vivaldi's so I stopped using it. Now, my only gripe with it is that sync seems to not work on the desktop. I can use it easily on android, where i can see the open tabs on the various devices, but i cannot do the same on Windows. Firefox works perfectly, i can see all the devices histories and send tabs from one device to another. I just wish this worked as well on Vivalvi.
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@yellowmatter Sending tabs to other devices not working is a known bug (reported as VB-86341). We haven't managed to fix it yet.
As a workaround, you can access your mobile tabs through the Remote Sessions icon (cloud), next to the Recently Closed Tabs button (trash can) (check here for screenshot). It might take a couple of minutes before they sync, though. -
@pafflick Hello, today I tried to share a tab from mobile Vivaldi with desktop one by following instructions from the first post, but the tab still doesn't appear in the cloud tab list of the device. Desktop Vivaldi is 5.5.2805.38, mobile one is 5.5.2807.32. Is there any news about bug VB-86341?
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@Vekario
Hi, the Chromium developer have removed the code for "Send to other device" and the bug was closed.
Now it is reopened, and the Vivaldi team try to implement it in one way or another, no timeline.
The cloud icon right top should work, it need some time open tabs appear on other devices.
Some user report if they have 100 tabs open on Android they can see only 98 on the desktop but this is a different issue.Cheers, mib