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Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by merryMellody »

killjoywashere wrote: post #30

What I really want is for my tab groups to sync across devices. I have to use a bunch of computers for various things (I have a half-dozen laptops tethered to their own VPNs) but they all exist for me to do work. News bulletin: it is impossible for me to segregate my work perfectly across 5 organizations. I can sync my tabs, but what I really need these days is a way to sync my tab groups.

Safari in the upcoming macOS Monterey and iOS 15 do exactly this, syncing tab groups between all of your devices :-) well, Apple devices anyway.

I hope Chrome adds this to their own tab group feature set soon because it’s pretty nifty!

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by MereInterest »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #37
killjoywashere wrote: post #30

What I really want is for my tab groups to sync across devices. I have to use a bunch of computers for various things (I have a half-dozen laptops tethered to their own VPNs) but they all exist for me to do work. News bulletin: it is impossible for me to segregate my work perfectly across 5 organizations. I can sync my tabs, but what I really need these days is a way to sync my tab groups.

> it is impossible for me to segregate my work perfectly across 5 organizations I used to have 3 different browsers for 3 organizations. They all had same websites usually e.g. Email, social media sites for each organization respectively. Then I had another browser like FF Developer Edition for development, One more for Education and another in VM which gets invoked when needed for checking out URLs from unknown peop…

Does Firefox not support multiple profiles anymore? I would have thought that this would be the natural solution, to have a different profile for each rather than a different browser.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by DrammBA »

ponyous wrote: post #38
DrammBA wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two of your 3 favorites are not unique to Vivaldi, is there any other feature worth the switch besides "Stack tabs by host"?

Even stack tabs by host is not unique with this extension is it? :) It's made for power users as I said, for example you can change the right click menu on the tab bar and have only things you care about in there instead of 1000 options. I bet there are other "unique" features, but that's not the point. If you are happy with chrome keep using it.

I don't use chrome (and I don't think anyone mentioned chrome in this comment thread about Vivaldi), I was just curious if Vivaldi was worth a try.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by weaksauce »

lolinder wrote: post #20
weaksauce wrote: post #15

neat webext but I'm curious why no firefox release? after a brief perusal of the code it doesn't look like the code has any glaring incompatibilities.

It looks like this utilizes Chrome's tab groups, which Firefox doesn't have.

yeah that would do it. i didn't notice that... I guess like the other commenter said it could be done with a pseudo tabgroup kind of thing where you move the tabs in a specific ordering but you'd lose the coloring that is native to tabgroups in chrome.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by weaksauce »

mdaniel wrote: post #35
lolinder wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like this utilizes Chrome's tab groups, which Firefox doesn't have.

I wonder if tab reordering is possible, creating pseudo-groups by merely placing all related ones next to each other. Then shift-clicking them could enable tearing off a new window containing all related tabs, which I 100% get isn't the same, but might not be totally worthless, either

tab reordering would be possible but the shift-clicking on the tab group would have to be some other mechanism like a context menu action or something along those lines.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by weaksauce »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #37
killjoywashere wrote: post #30

What I really want is for my tab groups to sync across devices. I have to use a bunch of computers for various things (I have a half-dozen laptops tethered to their own VPNs) but they all exist for me to do work. News bulletin: it is impossible for me to segregate my work perfectly across 5 organizations. I can sync my tabs, but what I really need these days is a way to sync my tab groups.

> it is impossible for me to segregate my work perfectly across 5 organizations I used to have 3 different browsers for 3 organizations. They all had same websites usually e.g. Email, social media sites for each organization respectively. Then I had another browser like FF Developer Edition for development, One more for Education and another in VM which gets invoked when needed for checking out URLs from unknown peop…

have you tried using multi-account containers? it's perfectly suited for segregating different identities like work/bank/shopping/social/whatever all in the same browser instance. that plus temporary containers for "privateish" windows is awesome. I am not sure why that's not installed by default if it's not as it is really great.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by mdaniel »

weaksauce wrote: post #45
mdaniel wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if tab reordering is possible, creating pseudo-groups by merely placing all related ones next to each other. Then shift-clicking them could enable tearing off a new window containing all related tabs, which I 100% get isn't the same, but might not be totally worthless, either

tab reordering would be possible but the shift-clicking on the tab group would have to be some other mechanism like a context menu action or something along those lines.

Oh, apologies, I meant the _user_ would be responsible for shift-clicking and tearing off those tabs; I haven't ever seen an extension that was able to do those kind of wholistic browser operations

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by weaksauce »

mdaniel wrote: post #36
solarkraft wrote: post #22

Is “open source” really a feature for browser extensions? I don’t think I’d ever use a proprietary one.

_Cries in 1Password land_ They've done a good job publishing specs for their on-disk formats, but thus far I've never seen anything for their extensions. Ironically, it's a tiny bit easier now that their in-browser uses the same API as does the "thick" client, but (AFAIK) that API still needs to be fully reversed enough to implement a separate extension Yeah, yeah, I know, "but bitwarden!" I just haven't expended the…

if you trust 1password to host your passwords do you not trust bitwarden? it's free for personal use across all your devices and opensource. if it were free without anyone paying for it I'd be a bit more worried about it but since there are paying tiers I think they are more reputable. That said the interface on the client doesn't have the best UX.

Re: Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns

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Post by weaksauce »

mdaniel wrote: post #47
weaksauce wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tab reordering would be possible but the shift-clicking on the tab group would have to be some other mechanism like a context menu action or something along those lines.

Oh, apologies, I meant the _user_ would be responsible for shift-clicking and tearing off those tabs; I haven't ever seen an extension that was able to do those kind of wholistic browser operations

ah i see... yeah an extension could theoretically do it but it would be along the lines of right click on a tab and then select a context menu action that the extension installs that would then do something like "break this group off into a new window"... fairly trivial to implement but I don't think it exists right now.
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