Solved Sync Workspaces
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@nutter As nearly as I can tell, most who desire "sync" between devices want the page content from one instance to another to be the same. This requires acres of server space. If all that was wanted was a syncing of URLs, people would not complain bitterly that opening a hibernated page causes it to reload.
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@Ayespy there's not a single request in this thread for what you're describing, perhaps you're responding to the wrong one?
I, and I suspect many others using Vivaldi, work in tech professionally. What has been described here is very much a solvable problem.
But again, working in tech, I fully appreciate the challenge of competing priorities and limited resources.
So to the engineers and product managers that are hopefully listening...
- Syncing workspaces would be a killer feature!
- I suspect I'm like many others using Vivaldi in that I have multiple machines that I need to stay synchronized. Without synchronization this feature isn't useable for me. (I'm paying $7/mo for Workona for managing and synching tabs numbering in the triple digits, I've already put my money where my mouth is.)
- My sincere thanks to everyone that makes Vivaldi possible, it's a shining beacon of what the internet used to be and still could in an otherwise expansive darkness.
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@loikawhaticando Workspaces have tabs/pages. Users often want those tabs/pages to have the same content across devices.
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@Ayespy This is an assumption, not supported by posts I have seen.
All I want is Workspace names & URL synced.
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@Milliways It's not actually an assumption. It's based on having read every comment posted in English in this forum in the last eight and a half years.
Either way, Sync continues to evolve. More and more items are added to it all the time. At some point, it will be rather comprehensive. 3 or 4 years ago, it synced less than a third of what it does now. This is a feature request to sync workspaces. Have you upvoted it?
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@Ayespy you appear confused, perhaps you're in the wrong forum entirely? The rest of us are here to discuss Vivaldi, it's a web browser, arguably the best one currently in existence.
I encourage you to read this thread requesting synching of workspaces. You'll find there's not a single post requesting content synching. Baselessly claiming otherwise does not change that fact.
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@loikawhaticando I understand what you want.
Your snark is also noted, if not well-received.
The kind of thing you are asking for is the kind of thing sync may well bring at some point.
You will have to forgive me if I initially imagined that when the topic addressed syncing workspaces, I reacted as though it meant the same thing most users mean whey they think of syncing (a carbon copy of everything - structure, settings, prefs, data and content at both ends of the sync transaction). Terms like mirroring and work "sessions" are being used. Surprise was also expressed that mail accounts were not (of course) synced.
Many users also think that their entire browser and everything in it is backed up to a Vivaldi "cloud," because they are "signed in to Vivaldi." They want to know how to recover that backup after their laptop was run over by a truck. Unrealistic expectations (unspoken) are the rule, not the exception.But as mentioned, we have the voting system and everyone's upvotes are noted.
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Interesting idea: synchronising everything, right down to the individual sessions between devices. Not sure how feasible that would be as different devices have different extensions, hardware and memory.
That said, what I personally envisaged, as did others apparently, was just a way to synchronise the workspace configuration between devices. The pages within them could simply be handled the same way they currently are.
I don’t think synchronising workspaces implies or requires the content of pages to be synchronised. That would be a separate feature request. As would be the feature to be able to have unsynchronised, local only, workspaces, pages or whatever else. This also sounds like it might be handy and could be accomplished with the addition of a single flag.
@Ayespy
I’m not quite sure why you ‘reacted as though it meant the same thing most users mean whey they think of syncing’. I have the impression that the majority of Vivaldi users are probably pretty technically aware. After all, we’ve already made the decision to use a more complicated and highly customisable browsing solution by choice. We’re not talking about IE here! Or Edge, or new Edge, or new new Edge, after MS finally gave up and started using Chromium!Just my 2p worth…
Either way, I eagerly await news that synchronisation of workspaces has been added, in whatever form that takes!
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I’m not quite sure why you ‘reacted as though it meant the same thing most users mean whey they think of syncing’.
Perhaps its from reading things like this:
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I was quite excited about the workspace feature and used it extensively since its release. However now for the second time all workspaces got cleared after an update of Vivaldi and all items and tab groups are just put in a long list of tabs, but detached from the workspaces.
This means i wasted hours of work twice sorting my tabs into workspaces and syncing didn´t work either to restore the previous state - what a bummer! -
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It's a known issue that the devs are working on. Hopefully it'll get fixed by the time the next Stable release comes out. -
@RKN38 enable auto saving of session, so that you have a backup you can revert to.
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@RadekPilich thanks for this suggestion! I know how to save a session, but i´m not aware of an autosave function?
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@RKN38 You are right, I was mistaken, it's not auto saving, you have to do it manually. I just did, thanks for reminding me
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Synching workspaces at least between several desktop computers is must. That's when the effort of keeping workspaces really pays off.
I've tried using the workspace feature, but when that context is only local on that computer it's not very useful to me.
I also agree with others on this thread that ideally it should be possible to have some "private"/"local" workspaces and others synced.
Looking forward to the day when I can keep my tabs in workspaces and continue that context on another computer.
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would love to see this feature!
also, reading about workspaces randomly being cleared is a bit alarming...
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Voting for this feature
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Voting for synced workspaces, it's an essential productivity feature.
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There are countless requests for greater sync.
I love the personalisation but Sync is falling behind as newer personalisation is released.
Thus makes setting up a new instance of Vivaldi an absolute pain.My suggestion, take a quarter to get Sync up to date:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/87002/edit-with-image-take-a-quarter-to-improve-sync-please/2 -
Now that version 6.1 has been released, can anyone confirm, that workspaces are synced now and the bug of emptied workspaces has been resolved?