unTab window does not open in previously opened tabs
tanishqvyas opened this issue · 3 comments
tanishqvyas commented
Steps to replicate the issue
- Open a couple of tabs in the web browser (we shall refer to these tabs as
formers
). Make sure that when these tabs are opened,unTab
isn't added as an extension. - Now, add
unTab
as an extension. - Open some more tabs now (we shall refer to these as
latters
).
One could notice that upon trying to open the unTab
window in the formers
it does not open, however when we try to do the same in latters
it works fine. What causes this issue?
A request to add the question
label as welll to this issue.
blenderskool commented
The reason for this behaviour is following:
- UnTab extension works by embedding a script on every page you open after it is activated (which let's us show the interface on top of the existing page)
- In case of
formers
, this script does not get added as after UnTab is installed (it does not embed the script on old pages) - It is important to note that the embedding of script is taken care by the browser itself and it starts embedding the script in tabs opened after the extension is activated (which here is referred to as
latter
)
Hope that clears the question 🙂
blenderskool commented
Possible solutions to explore:
- see if we can manually embed script on previously opened tabs(
formers
). - Check out #48 as it is very relevant to this and might be a reasonable solution considering other pages where this script can't even be embedded.
tanishqvyas commented
@blenderskool Thanks a lot for the explanation. That sure helped. I'll take a look at #48.