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    • paicthulhu
      paicthulhu last edited by

      We need an option that allow us to sync opened tabs on each Workspaces.
      In the current quarantine situation, somedays I work from office and most I work from home, I would love to have my "Work" workspace with the same tabs whichever device I am on.

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      • rugertyler
        rugertyler last edited by

        I am in complete agreement! It would be much more intuitive to allow syncing of all active tabs across workspaces on each device you're signed in on.

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        • daviderud
          daviderud last edited by

          I agree as well. It makes no sense to have only synchronized workspace names without the opened tabs.

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          • lishes
            lishes @leocg last edited by

            @leocg said in Syncing workspaces tabs:

            opera://activity

            It shows only current device tabs only and nothing else while there are other computers and cell phones under my user profile logged in. I could not make it work after multiple attempts over last several years. It appears that Opera tab sync is not going to work in the nearest future.

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @lishes last edited by

              @lishes If you are logged in to sync, it will show opened tabs from other devices. if you are connected on them too, of course.

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              • 2afish
                2afish @leocg last edited by

                @leocg Yes, that is right, you can see a list of the open tabs of all synchronized computers, but these "synchronized" tabs are not imported in any workspace and I didn't found a method to do so manually. In that they are useless at all!
                Bookmarks and Settings have been imported correctly, but tab-synchronization seems to be a Beta-Feature, isn't it?

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @2afish last edited by leocg

                  @2afish Opened tabs from other installations/devices are not automatically populated in the current one, that is how things were designed to work.

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                  • dsilvestre
                    dsilvestre last edited by

                    @leocg , OK if they weren't designed to open automatically among devices, but it would be great to have this option. At least, the "opera://activity" area should show opened tabs organized per workspace. I agree with @2afish about the usefulness of syncing tabs along with workspaces, so you can keep your whole browsing session seamlessly synced when switching from one device to another.

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @dsilvestre last edited by

                      @dsilvestre You can always suggest such feature

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                      • flysimoo
                        flysimoo last edited by

                        Hello everybody,
                        In Fact I had to use an alternate tricky option to sync my opened  tabs per workspace as you wish. So, how and why did I land on this topic? simply because I was searching like you all for a logical way to do this synchronizing without hassle!
                        The solution is:Recently after opera added the pinboard feature you'll be able to share your tabs easily to anyone... So why don't use this feature locally with yourself and convert it from "Share" to "Export"!!How? go to the pinboard page and create a new pinboard and name it as you like.. for example name as "For Export" or name it as your workspace name exactly... then head to  your existing workspace and pinboard every single tab to the created one which is "For Export''.After you finish copy the link of the pinboard or sharing it with yourself via Messenger, email draft, Clipboard whatever and open it in your other device Opera browser... you find inside it all the grouped tabs that you want and then add them to the local workspace on that device!.
                        I know it is a little bit long solution, especially when you have more than 10 tabs opened together! but at least it works 100% and

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                        • sensory7
                          sensory7 @leocg last edited by

                          @leocg said in Syncing workspaces tabs:

                          @Shekala You can type opera://activity in address bar to see opened tabs from other devices.

                          0'hh?

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                          • hankhai
                            hankhai @sensory7 last edited by

                            @sensory7 Oh

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                            • ialex
                              ialex last edited by

                              Just wondering if by now this feature is on somebody's to do list.

                              Thanks

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                              • alojz
                                alojz last edited by

                                Just here to add one more insignificant voice on this. Please make automatically syncing tabs a thing (like everyone here is begging for). Opera is currently the best browser for work on many fronts and I don't want to switch to another browser for what seems to be a relatively simple thing to do (apparently Edge can do it just fine), just because of a design decision which makes no sense.

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                                • cirenjules
                                  cirenjules last edited by

                                  There is a one-off Solution for this as outlined in this Post by flysimoo. Whilst the process is the same/similar, perhaps with a later Release of Opera it's a bit easier and quicker, especially if you've many Pinned Tabs in a Workspace. Here's what I did: 1) On your 'From' old system, create Pinboards which reflect the Workspace Name then Add the relevant Pinned Tabs to them 2) On your 'To' new system, make sure you're Logged-on to Opera; you'll see that these Pinboards have properly Sync'd (assuming you've got Sync Configured obv.) then 3) on the 'To' new system, there's a menu option behind the Pinboard 3-dots which allow your to see >>all the Tabs split by Pinboard<< with individual and Pinboard 'tick-boxes'. This makes it very quick to pick a Pinboard and copy all the Tabs to the 'To' new system Workspace of the same name 🙂 You do then need to 're-pin' these if you like but again you can select them all then 'pin'.

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    +1 for workspaces / tab syncin across devices

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                                    • Florent14
                                      Florent14 last edited by

                                      +1 for workspaces / tab syncin accross devices.

                                      Plus, while we’re at it, could it be possible to manage opened tabs from a device from another device as well?!

                                      Let me give you my use case:

                                      • I have a bit more than 400 tabs opened on my phone (yeah, I know…)
                                      • I tend to read them on one of my pc, either Work or Home
                                      • It would make my life So Much Easier (!!!) if I could close the phone tabs I read on my pc from my pc !

                                      Because going through all my tabs on the phone and closing those I read on my pc is a bit annoying 🙂

                                      Also, cherry on the cake, could we have an option to filter out these tabs in the "Tabs"? Like by Most recent for example…

                                      Because Opera IS the best browser there is but this tab management/synchronisation is a bit IE6-like for now 😅

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                                      • xanaddams
                                        xanaddams last edited by

                                        I am using the pinboard Idea brought up to move tabs around for redoing a computer and it works well enough. For those wanting to open stuff in your computer from your cellphone, that's what flow is for, just send it to flow and then close it. If you have sync activated, you'll see all those tabs you wanted to open sitting right there. I too wish there was a way to sync workspaces specifically instead of using this pinboard go around, but, it works for now.

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                                        • Prongs1
                                          Prongs1 last edited by

                                          Re: Syncing workspaces tabs

                                          Why is this still an issue that hasn't been addressed given Opera GX's focus on "gamer-friendly design"? Most dedicated gamers, even most at home workers, have more than one monitor. I only utilized workspaces because I believed I could easily call my groups together across multiple instances (I have one running for Browsing and one for Media across my three monitors), and the lack of sync is frankly absurd to me. This feature being natively included would make Opera an easy recommendation, but this has genuinely turned me off and I will begin searching for a new browser that can support genuine efficiency and multi-tasking. Does anyone have a fix to this that isn't the equivalent of creating a Google Doc of links (to hell with Pinboards) and sharing it to yourself? Am truly desperate.

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