Sync open tabs

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi,
I use Opera on two windows laptops both running Windows 10. I've signed in to Opera on both, and set sync so that tabs (along with bookmarks, history and settings) sync between the two PCs. But the tabs I have open on one laptop are not synced open on the other.
Am I misunderstanding what syncing tabs is supposed to do, or is this a bug?
Thanks.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@papercontracts Use the tabs icon in sidebar or type opera://activity in address bar. Opened tabs in one device will not automatically show up as a tab in another device.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I'm a new user and thought tab syncing meant all tabs would be open on all devices. When on mobile, I can find the desktop tabs when I click on the lower left icon. But the weird thing is it also shows what was last synced on the same mobile device and there's no way to get rid of it. Is that how it's supposed to work? Why would it sync a page that I've been to from two days ago and show up as if it was from another device?

Another question - how do I add the tabs icon on the side bar? I don't see it in the sidebar settings. Thanks.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@NahcB It shows synced opened tabs from other Opera installations. So, if you have/had other Opera installations with opened tabs in the same device, those tabs will show up.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@NahcB Tabs icon on sidebar will appear automatically when synced opened tabs are detected.

[cesarluis]

cesarluis @Guest last edited by

@NahcB at the beginning I thought the same, then with some reflexion I concluded that it wouldn´t be a good thing to enable that feature. You can never be sure that all your sync devices have the same technical features and just imagine opening a tab with compromised information and then it suddenly pops up on your other devices.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by leocg

@leocg I have the same problem. I'm transferring all of my stuff to a new laptop. I've installed Opera and, as near as I can tell, I've synced my data from Opera on my old machine. I don't see Any of these tabs show up when I log into Opera on the new machine. I have 409 open tabs and reopening all of them manually will be onerous. How do I get them to show up on the new machine?

[chadrik]

chadrik last edited by

Marking tabs in Flow is a very useful feature for instant syncing of individual tabs.

[nabilh2020]

nabilh2020 @Guest last edited by

@fishmom If what you want is to get all sessions (ie tabs) in the new machine (laptop/pc) here is what I did to get all tabs from one desktop to another (this only works for Opera in Windows:

Source has Admin as user, target has User as user (replace as appropriate)

1. Backup the following folders in the target:
   C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Session Storage
   C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Sessions
2. Delete the above 2 folders (Session Storage & Sessions) in the target.
3. Replace the above two folders with the ones in the source:
   C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Session Storage
   C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Sessions

This way you get all your tabs from the source carried through to the target.
One caveat, you lose the session in the target machine, for me it was not an issue as I just wanted my session carried across.

Hope this helps you or someone else, it's ugly but very fast for the purpose.
Until Opera devs decide to offer Tabs syncing that is...

[underscore]

underscore @nabilh2020 last edited by

@nabilh2020 I realize this is necroposting, but this has been extremely useful for me. I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu (GRUB), and symbolically linking those two directories lets me sync Opera tabs across both operating systems. After two weeks, it still works perfectly. Heck, even multiple windows opened are saved across their respective monitors somehow.

For anyone wondering, the Opera directory in Ubuntu (and any OS)'s shown in opera://about, which led me to ~/snap/opera/325/.config/opera/Default/Session Storage via the "Profile" path. I tried linking the parent directories (Default in Ubuntu to Opera Stable in Windows) but that led to a couple bugs.

ln -s "/mnt/c/Users/.../AppData/Roaming/Opera Software/Opera Stable/Default/Sessions" "/home/.../snap/opera/325/.config/opera/Default/Sessions"

ln -s "/mnt/c/Users/.../AppData/Roaming/Opera Software/Opera Stable/Default/Session Storage" "/home/.../snap/opera/325/.config/opera/Default/Session Storage"

I figure this is possible across two Windows computers via SMB + junctions or even shared OneDrive folders if Opera allows installing there on both machines, but that's an unstable solution. It really is strange that Opera doesn't provide this feature natively, though I'm glad the sessions are saved the exact same across operating systems.