Real-time tab sync, continuity style

DeKinci

I've been using Vivaldi on both PC and Android for a few years now - and while sync feature is great for bookmarks and passwords, tab sync feels awkward.

Let me explain: currently sync period is ~30 minutes, and most tabs are opened and closed much more frequently. While it is nice to be able to access long-living PC tabs on the phone - most often I want to continue working on the most recent ones, which are not yet synced - because 30 minutes!

This makes the feature feel unreliable and even useless for most tab-related cases.

The solution here is to make tabs sync more frequently - or even on each tab update (even 1 min frequency is not comfortable - you want to close your laptop without counting to 60).

The problem here - as in any other 'Improve sync frequency' suggestion is an extra amount of load on Vivaldi servers.

So make it a premium, paid feature. It is not a need for everyone, but many users will be ready to pay for this extra comfort more than the server cost will ever be*.

To keep the feeling of freedom and privacy - provide free self-hosted option for Vivaldi sync server.

Including form data, page position, and saved sessions in a sync will be a nice next step to a smooth continuity-style experience, unique outside of Apple.

* AWS EC2 requires $0.09 per GB of data transfer, worst-case scenario. 1 tab sync is 2kb, insane 1 per second tab update, 8 hours per day, 30 days a month - monthly network activity will be below 2GB, or $0.2. Surely pricing of $1-5 per month will cover CPU activity as well as anything else. In the end, it is just a message queue service with extra steps.

mib2berlin

@DeKinci
Hi, I guess this will never happen, it does not fit into Vivaldis business model.
But anyway, as a workaround bookmark vivaldi://sync-internals and hit the the Trigger GetUpdate button.
Vivaldi sync instantly.

Cheers, mib

LonM

Vivaldi 7.0 now has an improved sync system, so this sync will update immediately on any changes.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-0/#:~:text=inbox is overflowing.-,Instant sync,-If you are