How To: Share Tabs Between Devices / Send Tab to Computer
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Sad that we're in March 2023 and still this feature isn't restored. For years I've been trying to switch from Firefox and Vivaldi seemt a great candidate, but this is a deal breaker for me. I shouldn't have to keep tabs open in one side, just so I can grab on another device. Sure I can hibernate the tab but I just want to send and forget about it, not having to worry to go to the other device and get it back.
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In Firefox, I send tabs to work, to my bat-phone, to Batgirl (we share an account), sites that require you to sign up for something only to give you a pdf, you can send that pdf over too, images and infographics, interesting pieces of code I find (like a css doing something clever), and more. Send it and forget it on this device, pick it up and use it on another device. Find something good before lunch? Send to it phone and keep reading. The current setup is nowhere near as useful. For me, this is a killer feature.
Further, Mozilla's implementation rocks. I can right click on a page, or the tab, multi-select tabs and send them all over at once, rather than having to send them over one at a time. The tabs can be a mix of items, it doesn't matter. Great utility. I check back on this forum every few months to see if Vivaldi has done anything different for this feature.
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@Bewc Does the Firefox implementation allow for "send to other device and close tab"? That would be perfect. I would also love a "pull tab from other device and close there".
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@felagund It's a two step for that.
step 1: right click -> send tab
step 2: right click -> close tab
However, sometimes I want to close the tab(s) and sometimes I don't. What is cool, is if I have a bunch of tabs, I can select them all, right click send, and then right click close, which at times is better than doing each tab on its own. -
I´m using Vivaldi for two years now on different devices and there is only one thing I miss: The send-tab-function. I want to have the possibility to send tabs to other devices. It´s a nice-to-have feature that it works the other way round but I don´t want to click a link on 5 different devices to get this webpage on my device. Right click -> Send tab to -> device 1, 2, 3, whatever ... It could be so easy, I guess.
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Just cross checked it... Brave is able to send tabs to other devices (Chromium 124.0.6367.202) and Vivaldi is able too. Just click the Vivaldi-Logo -> share -> send to devices. There you can send a tab to other PCs/smartphones/... (Checked with Vivaldi on Android)
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... but sadly only on Android. Havent found a possibility to get it done on PC.
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@flatcap89 said in How To: Share Tabs Between Devices / Send Tab to Computer:
Just cross checked it... Brave is able to send tabs to other devices (Chromium 124.0.6367.202) and Vivaldi is able too. Just click the Vivaldi-Logo -> share -> send to devices. There you can send a tab to other PCs/smartphones/... (Checked with Vivaldi on Android)
And this actually works for you? I jus tried and yes, the option is there but no tab opens in vivaldi.
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you´re right. I don´t tried it yesterday because I thought the option should work fine if there IS the option... Actually it doesn´t work...
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it used to work on android (albeit barely / rarely), but now it doesn't work at all anymore.
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It used to work. But the functionality has been broken for years now.
I try to use it from time to time, just to see if they had finally fixed it, but no, as of this morning, still doesn't work from Android sending to Desktop. -
@areynaldos You're correct .............
used to broken, and work again , and broken , work again , finally broken until now.
It may seems a big job to fix it right.
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@areynaldos @eeeemc
Hi, it is not broken, the Chromium developer removed this feature since a long time.
Some other Chromium browser like Brave add it back and have to maintain this now.
The Vivaldi team leave the Chromium source as is in most cases, it is a huge task to maintain the existing code already.As all tabs are shared to all devices anyway it is just a bit more work to open tabs from device A on device B.
I use the windows panel for this, you can select multiple tabs from an other device and open it in the actual used device.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in How To: Share Tabs Between Devices / Send Tab to Computer:
As all tabs are shared to all devices anyway it is just a bit more work to open tabs from device A on device B.
I use the windows panel for this, you can select multiple tabs from an other device and open it in the actual used device.There is a feature request I made to make this easier on Android: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/96390/enable-multiselect-on-android-in-sync-to-be-able-to-open-multiple-tabs-from-other-device-at-once?_=1715662841687
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@felagund
I hope you get more votes for this, I use it rarely but even open 3 synced tabs is cumbersome on Android.Cheers, mib
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Just saying that in case you want to send any specific tab from desktop to android, a workaround is to save the website as a temporary bookmark. The only issue I noticed is that I am unable to force sync as and when I want to(even if the server was pinged a second ago), otherwise it provides a viable one-click alternative though being somewhat cumbersome and less intuitive
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@evanleslie said in How To: Share Tabs Between Devices / Send Tab to Computer:
The only issue I noticed is that I am unable to force sync as and when I want to(even if the server was pinged a second ago),
Yes, that is a longstanding issue that will hopefully be fixed soon: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/743292
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@evanleslie The Reading List syncs. One can add the tab to that.
Chromium removed the "send to computer" function a while ago, so it's not available at this point in Vivaldi either.
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@evanleslie
Hi, you can trigger the sync on the page vivaldi://sync-internals with the button Trigger GetUpdates.
There is a Java script modification to use a command chain and a button to do this automatically.
I have the script but cant find the thread with the description.
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@mib2berlin could you please share your script?
