Doesn't work in Canary
I installed this on Canary on W7. It worked through 3 or 4 updates and now doesn't open no matter what you do. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it repeatedly, and nothing.
Set "Always on top" on tab window to prevent z-index and alt-tab problems
When a Chrome window is focused, set the tab window to be "always on top". When no Chrome window is focused, remove the "always on top" property. This would allow you to freely switch between windows without having to focus the tab window and mess up the alt-tab ordering.
This doesn't seem to be currently possible using the Chrome Extension API.
It is technically possible to do it on Windows by using a separate helper application that runs on Windows (outside of Chrome) and does Win32-type operations on behalf of the extension. I have done some development on just such a helper, but don't have anything finalized to share at this stage.
(un)hibernate *windows*; *named* windows
i use windows a lot. two things would be nice: 1) (un)hibernate a window (so, all tabs in window would hibernate or unhibernate); 2) *name* a window (so i can organize things, i.e., figure out what is where). cheers!
1) (un)hibernate a window (so, all tabs in window would hibernate or unhibernate)
This can be done by right clicking a Window header row and choosing Wake/hibernate all tabs in window.
2) *name* a window (so i can organize things, i.e., figure out what is where)
This can also be done by right clicking a Window header row, this time choosing Edit title.
auto-sort tabs
First of I have to say the search feature is a time saver. But it would be nice if it was possible to filter with more than search words
what if I want to look what tabs I created a certain date, or week or other ways of sorting them, also auto sort into folders would be handy.
Or mass hibernate tabs with the specific rules you apply, for example hibernate all tabs that is youtube, or hibernate all tabs I opened last week, or last 3 days.
You get the idea
When you start using sidewize the problem sidewize was built to prevent become even larger :D Since I started using sidewize I had to buy more RAM for my computer as I am using even more tabs now :D And that makes it even more important to start making functions that really smart handle this amount of tabs
> But it would be nice if it was possible to filter with more than search words
That's an interesting idea. Putting on the future todo list.
> auto sort into folders would be handy.
I'll give that some thought. Can you give me an example of when you might use such a feature?
> Or mass hibernate tabs with the specific rules you apply
My thought here was if advanced (e.g. date-range) search abilities are added, I would just expect the user to filter their results first, then select all the listed matches and right-click->Hibernate.
> Since I started using sidewize I had to buy more RAM for my computer as I am using even more tabs now :D
Haha yeah same here :) Funny how that works!
I also like to have my windows taskbar sidedocked as well. This seems to confuse the docking of Sidewise...
I'm so happy to have found this! It's allowed me to move away from FF. So much so that I've donated.
- Have to manually resize windows or Sidewise gets stuffed under my taskbar :-(
- I wish I could get rid of the top tabs in the browser window as well.
I'm currently doing a rework of the Sidewise window-positioning logic, which (thanks to recent improvements in Chrome's API) should make this all work much more reliably and predictably.
As far as the top tabs, unfortunately Chrome provides no mechanism that I'm aware of to hide these, either via a user- or extension-initiated action.
Pinning leads to wrong Parent Information
Hi Joel,
i just found a minor Bug. If i Have a pinned Top-Tab with a child-tab
and I now want to Pin the sibling of the Top-Tab it is turned into a child of the first pinned tab.
Initial State
+Pinned Tab A
| \- Child Tab of A
|- To Be Pinned Tab B
|- some other tabs...
After Pinning the "To Be Pinned Tab B" the tree looks like this:
+ Pinned Tab A
| | - To Be Pinned Tab B (now also Pinned)
| \ - Child Tab of A
|-some other tabs...
Greetings,
Martin
Glitch with closed second window
Things have been much smoother since the last update, with far fewer oddities regarding tabs moving, extra window bars, etc.
However, I just had this happen - I opened an image in a new window, and when I closed it (the second window) I was left with this. The box pops up when I click on the 'Hibernated' label (don't worry about the strange button floating in the title bar - that's from something else):
A couple suggestions
Excellent plugin. Two suggestions. First, add a button to the Sidewise panel that will open a new, blank tab. Second, at least on Windows, the Chrome tabs in the main Chrome window get pushed down a little, which means you lose some browser space.
#1: In the next release there will be an 'open new tab' button that appears when you hover a window row in the tree. And you'll also be able to double click in the white space below the tree to open a new tab in the current window. There will also be an option to control what appears in these new tabs.
#2: Unfortunately there's not much that can be done about this: since Sidewise's sidebar is actually just a second Chrome window that is positioned next to the main Chrome window, the main Chrome window has to be unmaximized for both to be visible on a single monitor. Until Chrome team gives extension developers a proper sidebar API we're probably stuck with this behavior.
The "Set label" context menu item will currently do this. Marking as PLANNED to probably change the label to "Rename folder" when only a folder is right clicked.
When using Trello.com, sidewise keeps crashing
It crashes on other tabs as well.
But this is really reproducible.
As of today I can go to Trello.com, log in, and make new cards without Sidewise crashing anymore. I also rolled my version of Sidewise back to the last release version (the one you'd be running) and did not experience the crash.
So it was probably a problem in either Chrome or Trello.com that has now gotten fixed. So I'm calling this FIXED for now.
If you could go in and check to see if you are still crashing and report back here, that would be helpful.
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