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sienori / Tab-Session-Manager

WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states
https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/
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CRUCIAL BUG: Autosave session stopped working #1384

Open mockinbirdy opened 2 months ago

mockinbirdy commented 2 months ago

The autosave session function stopped working, it no longer overwrites old sessions and instead just stops saving new sessions altogether defeating the sole purpose of the extension.

Again, it's been reported #1367 in July and it stopped working in early June. I bet 90% of users don't even know about this BUG and what a big surprise awaits them once they open this extension to look for one of their last sessions.

According to people's complains, it affects at least Edge, Chrome and Firefox in my case. So I guess it affects every other browser as well. I needs to be fixed asap.

freemedom commented 2 months ago

i think this is because of the upgrade for v3.

nycal99 commented 2 months ago

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO FIX THIS. Firefox for me too.

I JUST DISCOVERED THIS SUMMER AND AM VERY UNHAPPY. Yes. indeed it was a "big surprise."

Is there another Add-on for Foxfire that does something similar? I am ready to switch after this experience.

lrq3000 commented 3 weeks ago

Same here, and the extension cannot show nor save any session whatsoever. I just found out my last autoupdate (saved in different files with random names so there is no overwriting issue on my side, and all in one json file per save) happened 2 weeks ago...

But I did not realize until today, because all tabs that were unloaded fr m memory (using The Marvellous Suspender) are now just empty and cannot be recovered, there is no URL, no content whatsoever.

So I just lost my last 2 weeks of content to browse or process. Fortunately I heavily worked on other devices where I had separate softwares to keep track of my most important material, but still it's problematic, especially since the extension does not work at all anymore.

I don't know exactly why the autoupdate stopped working, but the empty pages seem to have started yesterday with an autoupdate of Chrome to 130.0.6723.58 , which greets you with the new chrome tabs features (you can see tabs groups below the search bar on the homepage). I think this conflicted with Tabius, an extension I have that already autogroups tabs together, which is what Chrome intends to do now.

It seems Google did not expect/care for those who already were using tabs groups extensively since a while. When I look in Chrome's tabs groups list, I see that the empty pages are titles "Unsavable tab". Apparently, we are not alone, and this corruption of tabs happens even to those who are using vanilla chrome, it seems Google just pushed a very unstable feature.

So it seems that for now:

  1. Tab Session Manager does not work at all, as it cannot access tabs at all for some reason, maybe Google is rolling out the full migration to manifest v3?
  2. Avoid using tabs groups until Google gets it together or find a way to reliably disable Chrome autogrouping, but it may enable it again automatically in a future update (as it did in the first update, I never agreed for this to happen...).