Live data from Hacker News

Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

github.com

11–20 of 90 posts

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#13
post #2

where does data get synced to?

It doesn't get synced anywhere - "cross-browser" in this case means that the extension works in multiple different browsers, but you still have to manually export/import sessions between them.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#14

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

Plain entropy. I use an extension for killing duplicate tabs, helps a lot.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#15

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

I never understand people who can’t understand that different people have different usage patterns and workflows.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#16
post #9
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the extension uses idb which is a wrapper around IndexedDB. Did not check if there is any sync to the outside world though. 1: https://github.com/navorite/sessionic/blob/main/src/lib/util... 2: https://www.npmjs.com/package/idb

I think the question is regarding how it syncs across browsers (FF & chrome). I don't understand how this is possible for an extension, without some remote storage

Maybe something like a distributed DB where each different browser is a DB to sync with the other Browsers/Db’s ? I know this can be achievable with Tauri (a standalone app) and gunjs in a relatively straightforward way

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#17

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

Good job hero.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#18
post #15

I’ll never understand people who hoard tabs. Every time I’m done with something, I can close all the tabs in a few seconds. A single search can generate 15 tabs, and then after the solution is found I close them all. Anything I can’t handle now is pinned or added to Read Later, depending on the urgency. Same goes with the files on my desktop (which is also the download folder). Select all, delete. Multiple times a da…

I never understand people who can’t understand that different people have different usage patterns and workflows.

If anything we should applaud how flexible modern software can to accommodate a user.

I still remember a time before tabbed browsing existed.

Re: Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions

#19
post #8

Safari is doing this great with profiles and tab groups. The profiles help you have multiple workspaces where different sessions are start so you don’t have to sign out and sign in for different accounts all the time. And every profile has a tab group which is a collection of tabs. All that synced across all of your iDevices. However tab groups have a bug that hasn’t been fixed since almost 2 years now: https://apple…

Literally the same exists in Chrome, under the same feature names even (not sure who copied whom).

Firefox has environment tabs, which are like profiles, but on a per-tab basis. Personally I'd like to have a combo of this and tab groups.

Post reply on HN