Sync personal dictionary as part of account sync data

mkennedy

Love the browser, can I suggest an improvement to sync across machines using accounts? Please sync our personal dictionaries too. It seems like every time I repave a computer or get a new one, I'm right clicking "Add to dictionary" for things I know I've added previously.

One more piece of information. I don't use enhanced search.

Cheers,
Michael

Pathduck

@mkennedy Hi - I think these are already synced? A quick search through Sync Internals (vivaldi://sync-internals) reveals that after adding a specific word in chrome://settings/editDictionary it shows up as being sent to Sync:

{
  "CLIENT_TAG_HASH": "",
  "CTIME": "2022-11-14 16:29:23 +01",
  "ID": "",
  "MTIME": "2022-11-14 16:29:23 +01",
  "NAME": "xyzzy",
  "NON_UNIQUE_NAME": "xyzzy",
  "ORIGINATOR_CACHE_GUID": "",
  "ORIGINATOR_CLIENT_ITEM_ID": "",
  "PARENT_ID": "",
  "SERVER_DEFINED_UNIQUE_TAG": "",
  "SPECIFICS": {
    "dictionary": {
      "word": "xyzzy"
    }
  },
  "metadata": {
    "acked_sequence_number": "1",
    "client_tag_hash": "",
    "creation_time": "1668439763035",
    "is_deleted": false,
    "modification_time": "1668439763035",
    "sequence_number": "1",
    "server_id": "",
    "server_version": "5",
    "specifics_hash": ""
  },
  "modelType": "Dictionary"
}

It shows up in the Sync Node browser under Dictionary.

Unfortunately I don't have another device available atm to check if it actually shows up on others but you should check this on your system.

mkennedy

It would look like it from that JSON exchange. But my experience and test say no.

I put this lovely word into my laptop 2 hours ago:

ralphizmumium

And told Vivaldi to add it to my dictionary (not enhanced one).

Tried it on my desktop and still see it misspelled. Both devices show recent syncs of all data.

Pathduck

@mkennedy And have you checked at chrome://settings/editDictionary if the words show up there?

Did you try using the search function in the Sync Internals page?

mkennedy

@Pathduck Unfortunately, the latest update to vivaldi (today?) seems to have made chrome://settings/editDictionary no longer show meaningful info? I sure didn't turn it off.

Pesala

@mkennedy The latest update was on November 11th. The latest Snapshot was released on 10th November.

chrome://settings/editDictionary still shows a list of custom words.

mkennedy

When I enter that in my Vivaldi, it redirects to vivaldi://settings and looks like this:

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Pesala

@mkennedy What are your Vivaldi and OS versions?

Are you mistyping the URL?

For me, it redirects to vivaldi://settings/editDictionary and selects the Language section in the panel on the left.

Pathduck

@mkennedy I don't know why it won't go directly there for you. Make sure the URL you paste starts with chrome://

What you're seeing is the standard Chromium settings page.

You can just click Languages > Customize Spell Check to get to the same page.