Sending/Syncing Tabs between devices not working

[DoctorG]

@maxdule said in Sending/Syncing Tabs between devices not working:

On the other hand, why is there a UI option for a removed feature?

How does it look like? Upload a screenshot please.

[DoctorG]

@maxdule Is that Android or iOS?

[DoctorG]

@maxdule Ah, ok.
From Desktop version it was removed.

[dsent]

@mib2berlin Unforturately, the cloud icon on the desktop doesn't work reliably if the number of tabs open on mobile is close to a 1000

They are synced extremely unreliably, only a couple of hundred random tabs are shown in the menu and it's really hard to find the one currently open on my phone.

Any suggestions beside “send to other devices” that work for this use case?

(an illustration below; only 500 of about 1000 tabs on each device are shown)

[mib2berlin]

@dsent
Hi, don´t be one of the 0.1% user using more than 500 tabs and you are fine.
But I understand.
The bug report has higher priority and a developer is assigned.
I bet the Vivaldi team want this feature, it´s just a matter of time we get it back.

Cheers, mib

[Mido]

@DoctorG uhhh, removed? And I was wondering why it's not working... Flow option in Opera works great so I hoped for an alternative here..

[DoctorG]

@Mido Yes, the Chromium core developers removed it; if there could be a solution then Vivaldi dev team would have re-adedd the missing feature.

[belenus]

Hello, is there any news on send-to-device option? Maybe adding workspaces to the mobile version might be a workaround to restore it?

[DoctorG]

@belenus No, As Chromium devs have not added this feature back to Desktop version, Vivaldi had not got it.

[belenus]

@DoctorG Thank you for reply. Maybe adding workspaces to mobile Vivaldi could bypass Chrome's missing send-to feature?

[mib2berlin]

@belenus
Hi, there are a lot feature requests about workspaces, check @LonM page for searching requests.
It seems sync workspaces has many votes, first for mobiles is > Add it.

https://lonmcgregor.github.io/VivaldiFeatureRequests/#tag=&req=workspaces&minscore=0&tagsEnabled=

[axiiom]

Hey, there is a lot of off topic there.
I have hundreds of tabs to move from my android mobile to my desktop.
I wanted to do that with vivaldi native sync feature but not all tabs are synced, in fact, only those that are opened after sync feature has been turned on are synced.
As a workaround to not being able to add all tabs to bookmarks (which is already a workaround), you can move all your tabs to a stack/group and from here you will have the ability to select tabs, select all tabs, add all tabs to bookmarks. So from now, start opening by default =).

[mib2berlin]

@axiiom
Hi, really open tabs are not sync if the sycn feature is enabled later?
Did you check vivaldi://sync-internals and hit the Trigger GetUpdate button on both devices?
Sync need hours to sync all data, the Vivaldi team is working on a solution.
If this is not work I would call this a bug.
I will test this later.

Cheers, mib
Edit: Disable sync, open 10 tabs, enable sync > Trigger GetUpdate > All new tabs are synced.

[axiiom]

@mib2berlin those tabs have been opened for a while but they never appeared in synced tabs on my desktop.
I finally tried to remove remote data, manually refreshed all tabs (swipping address bar) and manually triggered GetUpdate on both device and it worked, all tabs are now synced.

Best regards.

[mib2berlin]

@axiiom
Hm, I read reports the tabs get hibernated but I don´t use many tabs usually, maybe this is the reason older tabs are not synced.
Anyway, I am glad you find a solution.

Cheers, mib

[Mido]

@DoctorG If there couldn't be a solution, Opera wouldn't not have Flow.

[DoctorG]

@Mido Feature like on Opera was planned to exchange data between Vivaldi devices. No timeline.

[belenus]

It seems that after update to 6.5 it is still possibility to send a website to another device, however it won't work on all devices and directions. I can share tab from phone to tablet, but that's all. When I try to send from tablet to phone I get message that it's only possible for users logged to their Google account. Sending to/from desktop doesn't work at all.

[mib2berlin]

@belenus
Hi, this feature was removed long time ago from the Chromium developers.
You can open synced tabs from other devices in the window panel, for example:

[mib2berlin]

@belenus
Hi, this feature was removed from the Chromium developers long time ago but you can open tabs from other devices in the window panel now.