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I have around 380 Tabs saved in about 10 windows, which should be absolutely no problem, but suddenly the extension stopped working completely.

Error handling response: Error: Failed to set a named property on 'Storage': Setting the value of 'Window' exceeded the quota.
    at storeWindow (chrome-extension://fpfmklldfnlcblofkhdeoohfppdoejdc/background.js:149:22)
    at saveWindow (chrome-extension://fpfmklldfnlcblofkhdeoohfppdoejdc/background.js:133:3)
    at chrome-extension://fpfmklldfnlcblofkhdeoohfppdoejdc/popup.js:93:36

It should use another way of storage, LocalStorage is not made for anything this large.

Is there a way to maintain the tab order on restore? This would be very helpful.

Organize large groups of sessions by folder/tag.

You might want to prevent identical names from being accidentally used for sessions, especially as they can't be renamed. (Great product, btw)

Currently the Chrome extension system doesn't support mobile (iOS and Android), but if it ever does, we should add support for it.

When having a session name whose length exceeds a specific width, the "close" button (i.e., "x") appearing on mouse-over won't be aligned properly with the session name anymore in the list of stored sessions. Instead of being on the same vertical level, it'll be located slightly below.

Make it possible to open sessions by name from the Omnibox.

The tabs API now enables this.

sws currently just reopens all tabs as ungrouped, so it kills any of the groupings previously setup.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/

generally, nick, is this extension still supported, or abandonware at this point? i don't mind jumping in and seeing what i can do if so (i'm a xoogler, too).

Simple WIndow Saver should provide a method to rename existing sessions. Although this can be accomplished by deleting the session and immediately re-creating it under a different name, a one-step UI way (e.g., "rename" button) would be nice to have.

Things to be taken care of when implementing this feature:

• Existing sessions should not be overwritten.
• Cancelling the rename operation should be possible.
• An "undo" button should be available after renaming is done, similar to how session removals can be reverted.

First, thanks for the extension, great stuff!

Then, to the point: I was wondering if there's any technical limitation preventing this extension to work in incognito mode? If so, "what a pitty".
But otherwise, it would be great having it there: as I see and use it, this extension is a great shortcut to temporary bookmarking, which is still possible in incognito and which doesn't devoid the incognito mode of its purpose.

Motivation: I use incognito mode for ~90% of my browsing and some study topics extend past a chrome session (which I try to keep as short as possible, b/c ..incognito!).

Thanks!

If you open a saved window and close it before the tabs are fully loaded, the saved window contains 0 tabs.

As noted in the documentation, manifest version 1 was deprecated in Chrome 18. Starting with Chrome 23, extensions which haven't upgraded to version 2 will be blocked from updates, and during the course of the next year further, more strict restrictions will take effect. Simple Window Saver should therefore upgrade to manifest version 2.

Don't worry about doing the work yourself -- I've already carried out the manifest upgrade on my fork. A pull request will follow soon.

I have managed to install the extension into Brave but now I don't see anything in Simple Window Saver - although there's tons of groups in my Chrome instance. I don't want to create them manually.

How do I import that into brave? Is it related to #20?

I'm happy to copy folders across if it means just doing that to make things work.

If you save a window named "savedWindowNames" then all your saved windows disappear. I know this isn't exactly likely to happen, but it's still possible and straightforward to avoid.

A more likely example is naming a saved window "version" which would break the update messages.

I think the simplest fix is saving windows as localStorage['savedWindow-' + nameOfWindow];, essentially putting them in their own namespace.

Add a way to sync the windows across different computers, maybe by using google account login or something, etc.

Check out the "TabCloud" plugin to see how it does it's syncing. It's code is available here on github too:
https://github.com/Connorhd/TabCloud

You too both have the best plugins, yours because it automatically keeps the state of the saved window updated, and TabCloud because it syncs nicely across all computers.

Syncing stored sessions to the cloud for multi-machine availability has been mentioned numerous times as a desirable feature in the extension comments. For the sake of documentation, I will hereby create an issue for it.

According to Nick, however, the problem with this request is that synchronization introduces a variety of problems which are non-trivial to resolve. For example, what is the expected synchronization result when multiple, synchronized Chrome instances share a session with the same name?

Since any reasonable synchronization implementation will likely increase complexity and sacrifice part of SWS's simplicity, this issue will be treated with low priority.

I often run into situations where I'd like to add one or two tabs to an existing but closed window. The workflow to follow then is to open that window, move the tabs into, and close the window again. This can be quite tedious and time/resource consuming with windows containing a lot of tabs.

I'm not really sure as to how the perfect UI should look like; something that should work and not too hard to implement would be a button or link next to each saved window in the session list (which may possibly only appear on mouse over) that says "add current tab" and stores the current tab into the window.

A few people on the Chrome App Store suggested to show the number of tabs currently open in a saved window on the badge instead of the little 'v' character. I'm quite fond of the idea so I'm putting it up as a feature request.

What should he taken into account though is horizontal space limitations. I'm not sure if it's realistic but people may be using 100+ tabs at the same time. So for a certain threshold, the badge should just indicate that there are many tabs in a single window. This could be accomplished by showing something like '99+', for instance.

When the list of windows gets long, the most recent windows are below the fold. It'd be better to have them on top.

Also move the form for unsaved windows to the top, since otherwise it will scroll the window to the bottom.

Make saved windows accessible on Android/iPhone.

For each stored tab, its history should be saved and restored automatically along with the associated window.

Hi there, love your Simple Window Saver Chrome Extension!
Unfortunately a few days ago I did a Win 7 restore to a few days back and lost some of my extensions including Simple Window Saver that should have loaded as I've had it for at least a year..so not sure what the deal is? Is there a folder I should look for to access the Simple Window history? I'm afraid to install the Simple Window extension again so I don't overwrite my history.

Can ANYONE please help? I'd really like to be able to retrieve my windows as I had a bunch of windows saved.

It would be nice to have a way to restore tabs of a saved session into the existing window. Conversely, being able to add a currently unmanaged set of tabs to an already existing session should prove to be similarly helpful.

Good day, hope you're doing well! I cannot open one of my saved windows. When I click on its name on the extension list, nothing happens. Is there a way to access the links from a saved window through opening a file in the Chrome User Data folder or one of the Extension's files?

I really love this addon! ❤️

I'm missing some kind of quick-search input to search through saved windows f.e. below "Save as"?! I think it would make sense to set fokus on the search-input instead of save input then.

This would be useful to back up your sessions, transfer them to a new computer, or share them with a friend or colleague.

Remember scroll state of tabs in saved windows.

Chrome has a "Name Window" feature (right-click on the title bar | Name Window ...).
When I have multiple windows open at once I name each window with the name of the project it relates to - which also happens to be the name I use in simple window saver. The window name appears in the windows taskbar and task switcher, making navigation much easier.

It would be great to incorporate this in Simple Window Switcher as follows:

• Include the Chrome window name in every save, and re-apply it when opening the window.
• When first saving a window that has a Chrome window name, use the Chrome window name as the default name in simple window switcher.

When having multiple sessions open, it should be possible to click on an already opened session name and have the corresponding window be brought up front, i.e., receiving the focus.

Save the current state of a window in a way that doesn't get overwritten when changes are made.

Allow to reorder stored sessions in the list of sessions using drag-and-drop.

It'd be nice to add some simple keyboard shortcuts to save / open windows.

Hello,
just noticed chrome updated the extension automatically, and... bad surprise... all my saved windows are gone 🤦

Is there any way to recover this? Thinks like that render a useful extension nearly useless ...

Hi there, love your Simple Window Saver Chrome Extension!
Unfortunately a few days ago I did a Win 7 restore to a few days back and lost some of my extensions including Simple Window Saver that should have loaded as I've had it for at least a year..so not sure what the deal is? Is there a folder I should look for to access the Simple Window history? I'm afraid to install the Simple Window extension again so I don't overwrite my history.

Can ANYONE please help? I'd really like to be able to retrieve my windows as I had a bunch of windows saved.