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Going into a saved window with existing tabs and changing the open / saved tabs on one device, doesn't update on the other devices so I need to go into the other devices and manually update the open tabs within the window.

Specifically -
iOS 18.3.1 and also older iOS versions 14 and 16 / macOS Sonoma / iPad os 16, 18

To Recreate -

  • Create and name a window
  • add search tabs that remain open within that window
  • if you go to the other device, the new items, being the new window and open tab contents will usually sync, although it may take a while
  • In a separate session go into the open window and close or add tabs
  • changes do not take place across devices.

Don't have the same problem in Safari

Please see attached.

  • First image shows tabs within 'SHARED' window after updating session on iOS device - deleting some tabs, adding others
  • second image shows macOS device still showing all the tabs that were deleted on the iOS device, and none of the new ones that were added, so didn't sync
orion-not-syncing.pdf
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It should sync across devices
(Btw - had to input this section 3x, because it keeps deleting entered text.)

Orion Version 0.99.131.0.1-beta (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4) - iOS / iPad OS 18.3.1 - macOS 14.7.2

Sonoma (14)

18

EDIT - It also has created duplicates - meaning in a saved, named window will have unique tabs on one device and duplicate tab instances of the corresponding saved window in another device.

EDIT 2 -
It would be nice if when this is fixed, that the open tabs lists appear in the same order as when created across all devices.

    5 days later

    This is one of the reasons I stopped using the desktop version of Orion a few months ago, as Firefox makes it easy to send tabs across devices more reliably. Came back to test this again today and was about to open this same ticket -- would be amazing to see reliable tab/tab group syncing to easily access all our tabs on any device.

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