I keep two different sets of Chrome tabs open on two monitors. I would like the tabset on the left monitor to carousel and I would like the tabset on the right monitor to not carousel.

If I click the projector button, it toggles for all open windows, as opposed to just the one that I enabled it on.

It seems like the functionality only does it for that window still, but the visual feedback is slightly misleading.

In testing this product, (which is great btw, prior to this little issue) I set it to "Start Automatically". It worked great, but I can't shut it off! I unchecked the box, clicked SAVE, get the SAVED response. But as soon as I reload Chrome, it starts up again automatically. Help
@Gissues:{"order":50,"status":"notstarted"}

Feature Request:
Please add option to allow change of the refresh interval. At this point it does not need to be tab specific, just allow the interval to be changed from the default of 5 minutes. Thanks.

Note: I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to request this feature request. This is my first time on this site. Thank you for your understanding.

I love TabCarousel, and have one quick feature request:

We're running a dedicated STATS TV 24/7 using TabCarousel, and once in a while tabs get redirected away from what we're trying to display (a session times out, or an ajax request fails, etc).

Instead of simply refreshing the tab, it would be great for TabCarousel to actually load the original url. For example, I might want to define the bookmarks bar as the url source and TabCarousel could load these urls every 5 mins.

Thank you for the awesome extension!

• Boris

From the reviews at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ddldimidiliclngjipajmjjiakhbcohn:

frankie1 day ago

Works great for what I need! The only thing I would like to see would be an option to have it turned on automatically for use in kiosk applications . Thanks! :)

Set up https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/group-publishers so that @benjaminoakes (me) is not required to release new versions

Right now, it's just some hacked together CSS and JavaScript. This release is for the first stage, which is using a CSS framework (possibly Bootsrap 2.1) to improve the look and feel.

Is there a way when the switch happens the video or screen can be left at full screen?
I am attempting to rotate tabs one showing a video the other a waite in line system we have. When it switches back and forth in minimizes the video.

I suspect this relates to closed issue #63

In my environment, version 1.0.1 is deployed as simple digital signage, but doesn't appear to be carouselling reliably. If I leave Flip Wait (ms) set to the default of 15000 everything works normally, however, we want to flip at 60000 (1 minute). Changes to this option appear to need a browser restart to take effect, but even after doing this, with flip set to 60000, the extension does not flip to the next tab at this interval.

From a quick round of testing, it appears values greater than 30000 trigger the problem.

My test environment is Windows 10 22H2, Chromium 125.0.6422.142 (Official Build) (64-bit), where I can reproduce this. I also have Start automatically enabled.

It looks like setTimeout is still used - I'm wondering whether this has something to do with it?

From https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/to-service-workers#convert-timers

It's common to use delayed or periodic operations using the setTimeout() or setInterval() methods. These APIs can fail in service workers, though, because the timers are canceled whenever the service worker is terminated.

A Chrome extension to help you keep tabs on info you want to monitor. It's great for cycling through tabs on an external display, like a TV.

Authors: Benjamin Oakes and Madhur Ahuja

Tutorial

TabCarousel is simple: open tabs you want to monitor throughout the day, then click the toolbar icon. To stop, click the icon again.

By default, TabCarousel will flip through your tabs every 15 s, reloading them every 5 min. It's great on a unused display or TV. Put Chrome in full-screen mode (F11, or cmd-shift-f on the Mac) and let it go.

If you want to change how often TabCarousel flips through your tabs, right click on the toolbar icon and choose "Options".

New in 1.0.0 (2023-12-26):

• Manifest v3 support (Thank you, Madhur Ahuja!)

New in 0.5.4 (2020-05-14):

• Reduce permissions for Chrome Web Store policies

New in 0.5.3 (2012-08-21):

• Bug fixes

New in 0.5.2 (2011-07-06):

• Added an option to start Carousel automatically, by request from a user
• Tabs that have previously failed to reload now reload correctly
• Carousel now only flips through tabs in the window in which it was started

Example Uses

On a computer that has an external display (like an HDTV), try opening:

• NewRelic - Open as many tabs as you want for your apps -- don't forget to turn on "kiosk mode"
• Twitter - Make a list of services you use, for example, and open it
• Status sites:
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
• Monitor your CI service
• Packages with tracking information
• Anything else that's on the web that you want to monitor

The TabCarousel wiki on GitHub has more: https://github.com/TabCarousel/TabCarousel/wiki

TabCarousel is open source software. Contributions are welcome, as are suggestions and bug reports. Check the project out at https://github.com/TabCarousel/TabCarousel

hello , when i installed this extension on google , its automaticlly monitoring all of tab , but some of them is refreshing too, can i solve refresh problem ?

TabCarousel will pause to current tab if the browser has been interacted with within x seconds.

IT would be great if you hit the arrow keys on the key board while tabcarouse was running it would flip the tabs

Allow us to enter commands to perform on each tab, by sending a keystroke such as using an app on a tab

Hello,

Do you have validated the kiosk mode for your plugin?

I test it and it seems it doesn't work.

Thanks for all.

For launching it in kiosk mode : chrome --kiosk

Adding a transition effect (for example, fade out) when switching to a new tab would greatly improve the user experience.

Would it be possible to make this available in full screen mode?

For long (e.g. jira card walls), it would be very useful to support scrolling of the active window. Slowly scroll down, and then switch to the next tab. Start at the top of the page each time it goes to a new tab.

Loving your TabCarousel app, I have it running on 5 different TVs in my office, and it works like a charm.

I would love to see an option that allows me to activate/deactivate at specific times.

3 of my screens are running side by side, and have the similar website cycling on each every 30 seconds.

Screen 1 / Screen 2 / Screen 3
Daily incoming call logs / Monthly Call Logs / Daily Outgoing call logs
NFL Sports news / NHL Sports News / MLB Sports News
Movie Quote / Movie Quote / Movie Quote
NBA Sports news / Golf Sports News / Soccer Sports News
Local News / World news / Hollywood News
Movie Quote / Movie Quote / Movie Quote
Branch A Weather / Head Office Weather / Branch B Weather

All three screens are scheduled to shutoff at 6:30 PM, and turn on automatically at 7:45 AM. All three computers obtain their time through the same ncr server as well. The problem is that because the websites are different, the load times are different, so they change at different intervals.

If you could add an activate/deactivate feature, I could start the systems, then only activate your software 10 minutes after they have booted, in order to have them properly synched.

From http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/background_pages.html

Caution: Consider using event pages instead. Learn more.

Backport changes from largely-abandoned develop branch.

This can read and change site data on all sites or specific sites greyed out, the only available option is to click. This makes it painful to use in an automatic way, as every time the system reboots I would need to click the icon again to enable site access.

My main use of this app is on a chromebook as an additional display, It's short screen height means some content i want to keep an eye on is below the fold.

Can positions be accessed from the dom before app is activated?

• i.e. scroll to position after page load.
• or maintain position on pages that don't reload as per settings / requests.

thanks

Title says it all. It's often unwanted for the tabs to be reloaded.

Greetings!

I'm interested in doing some exploratory development on this extension, but I'm not familiar with any of the technologies involved in developing the plugin aside from the extension itself. The "contributing" document doesn't provide details for tools I'll need to install in my development environment, how to run a build, etc., such as CoffeeScript. Can you update the contributing document with a section on how to get started?

FYI, I'm developing on an OS X system and I'm running macports (although I don't care if I have to install things from source myself).

Thanks!

I'm currently rotating tabs on the television at 10 second intervals, making it very difficult to, for example, type this message. The focus keeps going to the window that does the tab rotation, interrupting me filling in this form, or doing anything else.

Hi, I am using Chromium Browser "Version 48.0.2564.82 Built on Ubuntu 15.04 running on Raspbian 8.0".

I can successfully cycle through the tabs however, when I switch on incognito mode, the tabs no longer switch.

Can you help?

The JavaScript in the options page is entirely custom. Implement jQuery (at minimum) and possibly Backbone.js + localStorage adapter. See Todos.js example.

how to make more time to wait for one of the tabs?

Would be nice if I could specify a time per tab. Maybe only enable it for pinned tabs. That way they're somewhat unique?

Maybe just allow all configuration options to be different for tabs that are pinned in general? :)

It would be great if TabCarousel could cast all tabs from the current window to a specified ChromeCast.

I would like to have an option, to choose if the carousel should go forever or just a few times. It would nice one could set a number for repeats :)

I am looking for a way to send a message to stop/pause the carousel using chromix-too.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/chromix-too

We have 5 large screen TVs running on Raspberry Pi with Chromium and the Tab Carousel for monitoring purposes (mostly Grafana dashboards).

I can open/close tabs using chromix-too (with built-in commands or raw API calls) but the only thing I cannot do is pause/activate/deactivate the Tab Carousel.

When we troubleshoot we look at those screens on specific dashboards. Right now they keep on changing according to the timer and we have to VNC to the Pi, exit fullscreen mode, click on the icon and do it all over again when we are done.

With chromix-too, I can just send the commands:

chromix-too open http://.....
chromix-too focus X
chromix-too close X

The raw calls are like:
chromix-too raw chrome.windows.update 1 '{"state":"normal"}'
chromix-too raw chrome.windows.update 1 '{"state":"fullscreen"}'

I am not sure how much work this is but it would make our life so much simpler! :-)

Thank you.

Richard Turmel

I saw this when unpacking TabCarousel master in Chrome 21.0.1180.79:

There were warnings when trying to install this extension:
Support for manifest version 1 is being phased out. Please upgrade to version 2.

It seems pretty straightforward, so it'll be a part of the next release.

I don't really need the carousel to reload any tabs, would be nice if there were an option to switch this off

Upon activating "start automatically" there is a problem when restarting the browser. The second tab will become an error page by tabcarousel.

We are using this extension for rudimentary digital signage. Some of the pages that occupy the tabs are Google Drive images that need a full CTRL+F5 reload in order for changes to reflect. It looks like the extension currently does a normal reload. In order to do a full CTRL+F5 -style reload, bypassCache needs to be set to true, in the reloadProperties (Link to documentation).

Is this something that's of wider interest? Is there any detriment to changing the code to bypass the cache, or would it be better to make it a user-settable option?

Goal: release this Chrome extension as a Firefox add-on.

This has been previously demonstrated as a PoC: #37

Firefox must support Manifest v3 to make this possible, which should be confirmed before starting.

Add - Don't reload youtube/spotify pages or a list of "white pages" to no reload after 5 minutes.

Receiving the following error when trying to add the extension to Chrome...
"Image decode failed"

PC is on Windows 10 Pro
Chrome version is 54.0.2840.99(64 bit)

Not sure that it matters, but the PC in question is an auto logging PC.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

From #7 (comment):

I do also have a feature suggestion, possibly for the future. It would be
nice if you had some way of keeping the webpage alive to avoid timeouts.
Possibly sending a mouse click or spacebar or something to make the webpage
believe that someone is still active on the page, even if there actually
isn't.

The reason I ask for this is that we are using TabCarousel on a server to
display several reporting servers in our network. Unfortunately, refresh
does not keep the connection alive on all of them,and they timeout after 20
mins or so, meaning we have to relog in. We're trying to figure out a way
around this currently, but it would be nice to be able to keep the same
display, and simply have TabCarousel keep the connection alive. Just a
suggestion for the future. :)

Afternoon, I've been using your TabCarousel for a few years now for simple digital signage. (Has been working great for my needs thank you for all your efforts). Just recently - my users are complaining that the screen is sticking on one page rather than flipping through the tabs opened as expected. Maybe a change in Chromium or some kind of update has caused this option to fail. Wondered if there was going to be any fixing of that? Aside from starting automatically, it works just as expected. I am using TabCarousel on a raspberry pie (64 bit) running the latest raspbianOS debian BookWorm and using the Chromium browser:

TabCarousel version 1.0.0
Chromium version 124.0.6367.73 running on Debian 12 (64 Bit)

I start the browser with a bash script in kiosk mode on boot up - so there is typically no user interaction with the screen, it just opens the browser with specific tabs set and if the carousel is set to start automatically, it used to just run - refreshing every 5 minutes. Any suggestions greatly appreciated and thanks again for a great extension.

We have a computer that displays many sites on four displays. Could you make it so that we can turn on the TabCarousel on a per window basis.

For example:
Display One - switch tabs every 15 sec and refresh prior to switch
Display Two - same as Display One
Display Three - switch tabs every 30 sec and refresh every 5 minutes
Display Four - Same as Display Three

Have the possibility of being able to load the page again when changing the tab.

I think an option to change how often the tabs are refreshed, and possibly turned off would be excellent. The tools I use automatically update themselves, so refreshing the page is just unnecessary.

Happy to do a pull request as looking through the CoffeeScript it's fairly trivial - but I'm not sure how I would go about then compiling it all - perhaps drop me an e-mail?

This extension may stop working on or after June 1st, 2024 due to a change in policy that will disallow Manifest v2 in favor of v3. This is more than a simple technical change. If you are curious to know more, please search out more information.

As a result, I am personally switching to Firefox. I also don't use TabCarousel very often anymore. I built a Firefox-compatible alpha in 2017 as a proof-of-concept. Pull requests for improvements are welcome.

I would also accept pull requests to implement Manifest v3 for Chrome, but it's not something that I have the time, energy, or desire to implement myself. That said, if any users are interested in helping fund this work, please reach out.

Probably on GitHub Actions because it's free and has a low barrier to entry.

Ideas:

• Build extension
• Check style
• Run automated tests

Related: #51 (review)