I have to be frank- incomprehensible (and quite annoying) how Vivaldi can offer so many novel QoL features, but despite the overwhelming evidence it caters to users who hoard tabs, no straightforward workflow exists for migrating them across systems, automatically, manually, whatever.

@CovenStine

so, not just sync as we've understood the idea for years, but sort of a live-shared-session?

Am I crazy, or would that not increase the load on the Sync system significantly?

I don't think anyone wants it to be a constant sync (at the very least no-one needs that functionality). In my eyes it breaks down as such:

Set up a json, csv, or txt format which can be edited by a user, with the purpose of retaining all the url's, tabs, tiles, stacks, workspaces, etc, along with any aliases users might assign. It shouldn't be integral to Vivaldi's process of maintaining tabs/sessions (I assume many other factors have to be monitored behind the scenes), it just needs to work like when you export/import bookmarks across browsers. Grab/update like a screenshot, automatically whenever a window closes. Allow the user to rename them, but at minimum/by default, timestamp them. If it's too much bandwidth to maintain those across scores of users in the cloud, offer it locally, again, the same way other browsers maintain bookmarks, with the ability to select where files get saved.

That last bullet point is a major sticking point because of how things presently work:

Sessions are locked to an installation of Vivaldi; despite being described as import/export, there's no option to move them out of a given install, let alone an indication where/how they get saved. To copy sessions to another computer, you have to know where on your hard drive they get saved (for Windows users, under the hidden AppData directory), as well as the fact that you need three separate folders- else the process fails or you lose the names of your various workspaces. The file names don't even match up. Saved sessions are also not possible (or at least unclear how) to delete. In my attempts to migrate what felt like half a dozen times, maybe one attempt worked in a way that I liked, but that along with one or two other attempts eventually made Vivaldi crash on open, with no choice but to reinstall.

In the end I copied all the url's out of my various workspaces; I'm grateful Vivaldi has a button to do that on one click, but I wish it could be done across all workspaces.

I pasted them all into a txt file, sorted and pruned them. Now I'm using the Chrome extension Bulk URL Open to copy them out of that file in small groups, one at a time.

I guess I ultimately prefer a clean slate over fumbling around with the weird files which maintain workspaces, but there has to be a more straightforward solution.

@LordLorio Private tabs must lose their data when the browser crashes - the whole point is they don't store data anywhere.

Maybe you could consider setting up a separate profile, that way you can keep your sensitive tabs away from your main tabs, and you could create a second sync account.

Hi @Pesala
I know the conversation about this has been "boiling" hot, but I do have a question whether the vivaldi team can consider this implementation:
When you turn a tab into a pinned tab, add a metadata to the tab's attribute to say this is original URL for the fixed tab and then just right click on the said tab and display an option of "Go to the fixed URL", which would be looking at the stored metadata and just "shove" it to the URL bar.

I understand that this can be resolved with Rewind, but my requests comes from a different context than @nOrphf (I believe). Basically, my job intranet wipes out internal history of a tab after I get signed out. So there are many situations where I want to track pinned URLs, but I can't because the intranet literally wipes out the whole history list for the tab so Rewind or going Backwards isn't working.
I understand that there's a bookmarking system in place that can sorta solve this problem, but when you have multiple workspaces and a dozens, if not hundreds, of tabs are stored in there, it becomes impossible to manage it all since you have to physically remember from which contexts/workspaces tabs came from.
I know there's history search, but when you have very obscure names for site pages, it can also become impossible to find what you need.

I see that the development team is small and have their own set of priorities, but any possibility to introduce this as life of quality improvement goal, perhaps not necessarily as high priority? It's just I believe it will be great feature to have for the web browser, especially when the websites, like I have to face, wipe out tab histories and be inconvenient for productivity.

@Zalex108 It got even worse) now restarting doesn’t help, only pressing the Trigger GetUpdates button. I turned it off

Search engines are already synced. You can even use them on mobile with the keyword shortcut!

Have you found a feature request for syncing themes? I would appreciate that, too.

Agreed keyboard shortcuts is a big deal, please add your vote to the post Pesala shared if you haven't already.

I added my vote to sync workspaces.

I'm not sure what quick commands are. It's that the same as commands chains? I would definitely like those to be synced too, imo it's part of the keyboard shortcuts sync.

It is synced for some. For example vimium extension settings are synced for me.

I still have this problem: "Upload: Conflicts with another client's data occured".

It relates to notes being updated separately at work and home before sync could catch up.

I would like a way to view the conflicting notes and decide what to keep to avoid losing data.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/506761 shows how to use command chains for selected text to be searched in two search engines and tile the result.

And this post shows how to add commands chains to your right click menu https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/515478

I agree I wish these were synced, it's annoying to me for 1-2 days every time I move to a new install, until I can remember all my unsynced changes and can manage to figure out how exactly to implement them again. Please add your vote to https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/95523/synchronise-shortcuts

That feature needs to me implemented! Add shortcuts from PC to PC, from stable to snaphot drives me crazy!

@mib2berlin
Obviously little children and "untrusted" guests are not allowed to use these family computers but it would be safer if I would able to lock my account(s) in Vivaldi. There is an option to sign out but it is unable to untick "remember password" so Vivaldi is unable to forget my account password... time of sync process is under a second so I don't understand, why Vivaldi cannot delete my data when I sign out from a device - or lock while I'm signing in again. Parallel with this it is even not necessary to give my master password again (after signing out), Vivaldi uses my passwords from my account without sign in with my master password. Don't want to assume that Vivaldi saves my master password after I signing out and it is able to decode all my data without my master password, but this seems to be happening...
The most important would be to change back to Workspace 0 with a shortcut. Will Vivaldi team plans to programming this in the near future?
And where can I find built-in icons for workspaces (for manually build up these shortcuts)?
Thank you!

The workspace sync dependency seems unnecessary as a prerequisite. Workspace content sync seems tricky, for sure, but the rules and actual workspace names seem pretty doable (guess there might be issues with reconciling same-named workspaces).

It's a very practical function. However, it may be difficult to implement

Check vivaldi://sync-internals and go to Sync Node Browser - device info

Ok, got it. Unless I delete all my stuff and let it sync, create a new profile and new account and use that 🙂 Thanks.