Solved Natively limit the Number of Tabs Opened in a Window, store the the following tabs on a file and re-open them in order as they are closed.

[Eichenberger]

Recently, this extension became broken on vivaldi

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-limiter-with-queue/kaamkonbephafcojgajnbgbdgbgbboap

And i would love to see the functionality summarized on the title, and optionally the following ones:

• Drag and drop queued tabs to change their priority
• Ability to remove individual items from the list
• A way to be able to export the lists as "one-time sessions" or as a text file to a chosen directory
• A wipe out button with a confirmation window
• Ability to sync these lists between devices
• An ON/OFF switch to set when the service needs to capture tabs
• Native tabs like "New Tab" "Apps" and "Extensions" need to be totally excluded.

Im was trying to replicate the base functionality of the chrome extension,
and probably the issue is in how vivaldi deviates from chrome's tab management;
So instead, i will be evaluating to make a full fledged javascript addon to replicate this internally.

Don't know actually how it will turn out, wish me luck.

[Eichenberger]

A year and a half later i got my lazy ass up to work and made my research.
The author shared his source code on github.
https://github.com/rubenmv/chrome-extension-tabs-queue

After half an hour of debugging i found the problem, fixed it and reported it to him.
Now i have the only functional copy of this extension that works on the latest version of vivaldi.

(Until the original author decides to patch it, of course)

[BoneTone]

@Eichenberger said in Tab management like "Tabs Limiter With Queue" extension, but natively:

Recently, this extension became broken on vivaldi

What does "broken" mean?
What version are you running for your OS? For Vivaldi?
What was the last version that it worked properly in?

Please, i don't want to go back chrome.

So don't. If this extension is crucial for you then work with Vivaldi and work with the developer of the extension to track down the issue and resolve it. Although the latter may be more difficult to do. It appears this extension hasn't been updated since 2017. It's basically a dead project and depending on what is causing the issue, it may longer work at all, in any browser.

Have you tried using the extension in the latest version of Chrome? It's possible that the change which is causing the issue came from upstream in Chromium, and that would likely effect Chrome as well. If it is working in Chrome, make sure you try to test it with a configuration that matches your Vivaldi config as much as possible (e.g. all the same settings and extensions).

Have you tested in Vivaldi with all other extensions turned off? Have you tested using it in a different profile? Give those a try to see if the issue persists.

[Pesala]

@Eichenberger said in Tab management like "Tabs Limiter With Queue" extension, but natively:

it's like walking with no legs and one arm only.

Hyperbole. Have you ever tried walking with one leg and no arms, or pumping gas with one leg and no arms?

[BoneTone]

@Pesala said in Tab management like "Tabs Limiter With Queue" extension, but natively:

@Eichenberger said in Tab management like "Tabs Limiter With Queue" extension, but natively:

it's like walking with no legs and one arm only.

Hyperbole. Have you ever tried walking with one leg and no arms, or pumping gas with one leg and no arms?

It's a koan, like the sound of one hand clapping. What is the motion of browsing the web with one extension missing?

[Pesala]

@Eichenberger Since most users will not be familiar with the extension, it would be better to rename the thread as:

Limit the Number of Tabs Opened in a Window

The description should stick to the point, and say what features of the Extension you would like to see in Vivaldi.

• Let the user define the maximum number of tabs to open before adding others to a queue
• Load a queued tab when another tab is closed
• Do not include internal pages in the tab limit
• Drag and drop queued tabs to change their priority

We see a lot of issues with people trying to open a hundred tabs or more. I think if only 20 tabs were allowed, and 80 tabs were queued, it might make tabs easier to manage.

Presumably, reopened tabs would be added to the queue?

[Eichenberger]

@Pesala So sorry on responding this late, i'm not as active as i would want to in this forum.
As you pointed out, i edited the whole post to be more clear about my vision about this possible future functionality.

I was thinking about 10 tabs at the same time
(or the number of tabs that fits by default on the user's window without re-scaling them) as default.
and capping the max depending on system resources, making only possible to get above this limit by enabling an auto-hibernating functionality.

Reopened tabs (CTRL + SHIFT + T) doesn't count by default, but we could add an option to choose if we want to send to the list the last retrieved, the first, the leftmost or rightmost tab.

Cheers!

[Eichenberger]

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[Eichenberger]

A year and a half later i got my lazy ass up to work and made my research.
The author shared his source code on github.
https://github.com/rubenmv/chrome-extension-tabs-queue

After half an hour of debugging i found the problem, fixed it and reported it to him.
Now i have the only functional copy of this extension that works on the latest version of vivaldi.

(Until the original author decides to patch it, of course)