lnikkila/chrome-panel-tabs

Remember my tabs across sessions

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dannyhope commented

So that on startup the tabs are restored.

Perhaps only if I’ve checked Chrome’s “Continue where you left off” setting

lnikkila commented

Good feature, but Chrome doesn’t allow reading that particular setting. I think I might be able to work around it by observing Chrome’s behaviour on start up, but I’m not 100% sure until I try. An extension-specific setting could be added as an alternative, #16 might need some settings as well.

Food for thought: should Chrome have built-in functionality to restore panels like it has with other window types?

Writing some implementation notes here for discussion and so that I won’t forget.

In order to do this:

  1. Persist the list of open panels right before shutting down.

  2. On startup, check if persisted panels are present in the window to determine if a session is being restored.

    Possible problems:

    • A race condition with Chrome’s session logic
    • What if chrome://newtab is a panel?
    • What happens if the list of startup pages (chrome://settings/startup) contains some or all of the persisted panels?

    Possible alternatives:

  3. Yank the restored tabs into panels again

lnikkila commented

Hey, sorry for the delay, I’ve been incredibly busy lately. Bad news but I hope you understand: due to the recent changes in Chrome I’ve decided to stop maintaining Panel Tabs. I’ve written a more thorough blog post with details, please check it out here. Thanks for the support along the way!