odinochka

Background / issues with OneTab

I was a heavy OneTab user.

I had 5k+ tabs before my "data loss incident", when GoToMeeting went berserk, crashed chrome, and my tabs were gone...

Towards the end, it was:

• Slow
• GA tracking
  • who knows what they are doing with my tab data
• Requests 900 favicons on boot via Google proxy
  • This also breaks locally hosted apps favicons
• Not Great Suspender compatible
  • I've req'd this feature at least a few times over last 3 years.
• Not backed up anywhere
  • Export is manual and in a crap format.
  • When the tabs are gone, they are gone.

So I wrote my own.

TODO

• [x] Save Tabs
  • [x] Browser action button
  • [x] context menu
  • [x] Keyboard shortcuts
  • [x] Save tabs to indexeddb
  • [x] except pinned tabs
• [x] UI page
  • [x] list tabs
    • [x] restore tab
    • [x] delete tab
    • [x] favicons
    • [x] drag and drop
      • [x] within tab group
      • [x] between tab group
      • [x] merge tab groups
  • [x] tab groups
    • [x] Restore
    • [x] Rename
    • [x] Delete
    • [x] pop out
  • [x] Counter
  • [x] Options
    • [x] skip pinned tabs
    • [x] Autoremove links
    • [x] How to open Groups
    • [x] Filter Duplicates
    • [x] Import / Export
    • [x] disable favicons
  • [x] Filter box
  • [x] refresh in place
• [x] Compatible with TabGroups
  • [x] On save window
  • [x] On restore
  • [x] persist group title correctly

Etymology

Russian for singleton, but also:

• Loner
• Alaskan trading posts
• solitary confinement

Advanced Features

Restoring from a history dump

You can use the below jq command to convert from an Export History extension dump format to a file that can be read back in to odinochka.

jq '[{ts:1, name:"restore", tabs:[.[] | {title:.title, url:.url, favicon:"", pinned:false}], urls:[.[].url]}]' history_export.json  >history2.json

Chrome can mysteriously delete data whenever it crashes, so I recommend regularly backing up your tabs using the export features.

Restoring from pinboard.in

1. Download all links as json at https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?format=json
2. Convert using jq '[{ts:3, name:"pinboard", tabs:[ .[] | {title:.description, url:.href, favicon:"", pinned:false} ], urls:[.[].href] }]' downloads/pinbord.json >pinboard.out
3. Import the converted json

Restoring from a crashed computer with odinochka

Odinochka uses Chrome's internal database to store all tabs. The database folder is located in ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/IndexedDB/chrome-extension_gdoeiedioceagbkajogciogiopdgpoba_0.indexeddb.leveldb/. Close chrome, copy that folder from the old Chrome Profile folder on the old disk to a new profile folder. Restart chrome and odinochka should be populated.