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A Chrome extension to automatically synchronize your tabs across devices and sessions.

License: GNU General Public License v2.0

JavaScript 94.54% HTML 2.69% CSS 2.76%

real-time-tab-sync's Introduction

Real-Time Tab Sync

The extension is in maintenance mode! Only regressions will receive fixes. As I'm enganged in other projects and seldom use it personally any more - feature requests will be frozen until someone volunteers to contribute to their development. I'll be happy to help out anyone who wants to part take.

Keeps the same tabs on all your machines. Tab changes are applied in real time on all of your devices. The extension watches for tab changes and synchronizes them in real time across all of your devices that have it enabled. Btw you need to enable synchronization in the Chrome settings.

Link in the Chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/real-time-tab-sync/bflolmfdngaflefhmapdbbjmclioljck

Details:

You can toggle synchronization on/off from the extensions icon.
The extension works in unison with Chrome "On startup" settings : -- If you choose "Open a new tab" - it will start with a new tab , and sync the tabs from other computers/previous session in the background . -- If you choose "Continue where I left off" or a set of pages it will merge them with the sync tabs
Windows' and tabs' positions and size can be individual on each device , as the synchronization only takes in account the tabs' URLs.
It's implied that you want to keep your tabs across sessions . Otherwise (if tabs were removed at sessions' end) when you close the browser on one device - the tabs (therefore windows) on all other devices would close.
New tabs (chrome://newtab) and developer tools (chrome://developer-tools/*) are unaffected by the extension for fluency .
On sync (if a change is detected on another machine) the extension just compares two lists - URLs of all local tabs , and URLs that are synced on the last remote tab change. Differences are applied to the local tabs and that's it . That has its limitations , but the biggest advantages are simplicity and speed (along with the aforementioned "feature" (for me at least) that the tabs can be in different windows with different sizes on separate devices) .

ToDo (maybe)

Last n syncs to be viewable/restorable from the popup
Editable list of excluded addresses

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leloctai muammar fenghse mrandreastoth cybernhl wanderor rickduggan ericyue f0s3 tosunkaya

real-time-tab-sync's Issues

Synchronization timing

With regards to..."Note that synchronization occurs only when all tabs have completed loading"...I use an extension called FooTab that delays opening of all tabs when starting Chrome. This is helpful for numerous reasons, though it seems to affect the use then of real-time-tab-sync. Is there anyway to create a workaround option? To me, if form-related tabs is the issue...one could simply press the back button to get to the generic form page.

Sync does not run anymore

it used to work fine until recent update. Nothing happen after browser is launched. Autosync setting is turned on. It doesnt work regardless the chrome default startup option is changed. All chrome sync settings are turned on.
I disabled and reenabled the extension. It turned to red now even though previously it didn't sync, it was green.

QUOTA_BYTES_PER_ITEM quota exceeded

Hey, thanks for developing this extension!

I'm trying to sync a few hundred tabs between two computers. Probably for this reason, the extension isn't working. This is what I get right after installing it and checking the background page log (there were more lines, but I believe this is the only relevant part):

Unchecked runtime.lastError while running storage.set: QUOTA_BYTES_PER_ITEM quota exceeded
    at background.js:563:41
    at Object.callback (background.js:647:57)

[updateStorageFromTabs_directly] tabs saved to sync.

From the last line, I'd say the extension is just ignoring the error. The same lines periodically reappear on the console, so I guess it's retrying and failing without handling the problem.

Syncing without google account

Hi there, I've just found your extension and it looks like exactly what I need! However, I use Ungoogled Chromium instead of Google Chrome for privacy reasons, which means that I can't use your extension :(

Would it be possible in future to support my use case?

[RFE] Keep pinnned tabs pinned

Could the "pinned" status of a tab be transmitted when syncing tabs? Thanks.

edit: looking at the code, doing this would also make it easy to keep the "muted" status of a tab, so if possible... :)

Synchronization has stopped working

OS: Windows 7 x64 Prof. with SP1
Chrome Version 80.0.3987.116 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit)
Plugin Version: 1.3.0

Since a past days, the synchronisation won't work on any of my 4 devices. Latest chrome updates are installed. I have deactivated/activated the plugin and try to reinstall but nothing helps.

Tab groups and pinned tabs syncing

I wish there was an ability to sync the isPinned status of the tab so when you restore them on another device, they get restored as pinned. Same thing goes for the tab groups. I want the tab groups to be synced as well. I will try to find the time looking into the code and maybe developing this feature myself.

Toggles wont stay on in Chrome 49.0.2623.112 m

I just installed this to
Chrome Version 49.0.2623.112 m
XP professional 32bit
the toggles are greyed out and won't save when I turn them on. None of the tabs are syncing

Sync isn't working

As far as I can tell, the extension isn't working at all.

I think it's a really cool idea, but I can't get it to work, whether auto sync is turned off or on. No new tabs appear or disappear on either device.

Trying to get it to sync between Windows 10 Chrome Version 119.0.6045.160 and macOS Monterey Chrome Version 119.0.6045.159.

Does anyone know where I can go in Chrome to get debug information which might help get it working?

Thanks.

Also, what do the icon colors mean? Green, yellow, red, etc.?

Sync order of tabs

It seems like the order of the tabs isn't synced, for example if you switch two tabs on the first device and then re-open chrome on the second, they are still in their old order.

Is it possible to check the order of tabs and adjust it?

Will it work with Yandex or Kiwi browser?

If it can work with Yandex and Kiwi browser it'll unlock a whole new layer of functionality as to sync android and desktop devices.

Close all tabs on all browsers

Hi,

Really like your extension. Would you be willing to add "close all tabs on all browsers" as an option? Sometimes the tab merging becomes a bit messy, and you really have to jump through hoops to get the shared tab sessions to essentially clear out. This would be a fantastic option for me.

Migrate to manifest v3

Google announced that manifest v2 will be depricated by 17 Jan 2022. I started adapting the extension to the new standard and most of the changes are trivial (as documented in the migration guide), but the webRequest API will be depricated and where possible replaced by declarativeNetRequest. @wanderor , would you be willing to take a look at that, since you implemented the redirect detecion? I'm not really using the extension anymore and won't be able to test extensively even if I get to migrating to the new API.