moving tabs from one window to the next kills tab content

[Pauan]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 161

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open tab organizer
2. drag a tab to your current window that is the only tab open in another window

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

the content of the newly transferred tab is gone. just a blank canvas shows. reloading
the page doesnt help. only fix is to copy url into a new tab.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

TO 4.3 Win7x64

Please provide any additional information below.

Reported by digitalsphere on 2012-07-15 05:09:18

[Pauan]

Also to clarify in another, but similar context: 

Transfer all tabs from one window to the next, the last tab to be transferred will
not show any of its content in the window that it was transferred to. 

Reported by digitalsphere on 2012-07-15 05:11:51

[Pauan]

It seems to be working fine for me. Tab Organizer really shouldn't be able to do that,
so I'm not sure what the problem is.

I did notice that (while browsing certain web pages) it would randomly "lock up": you
couldn't interact with the web page at all but Chrome's UI is fine, and refreshing
the page doesn't fix it.

I believe these two issues are related, but I very highly doubt it's an issue in Tab
Organizer. It seems more likely to be a bug in Chrome itself.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-07-26 12:53:54

• Status changed: HelpNeeded
• Labels added: Priority-Critical
• Labels removed: Priority-Medium

[Pauan]

Thanks for the comments.

Reported by digitalsphere on 2012-07-26 13:15:02

[Pauan]

I also have this behavior every time. It started when I installed TO on my new machine
about a month ago. Both machines were Win 7 x64. My current TO is 4.3. I don't know
whether the version on the old machine was the same. It seems unlikely that it's Chrome
since I'm reasonably sure the same version of Chrome was running on both machines.

Reported by rjplummersb on 2012-08-24 18:22:44

[Pauan]

It's not the Operating System, since, that I've seen, it happens both on Win7 64bit
and Windows Vista 32bit. Also, the tab content doesn't seem to be "killed" (e.g. if
the tab contained a video the audio keeps playing regardless), just "seemingly irreversibly
hidden and unclickable".

Reported by mail.do.Guilherme on 2012-08-25 15:16:14

[Pauan]

Actually, if they're the same version of Chrome, that would be evidence that it IS a
bug in Chrome.

Does completely uninstalling Tab Organizer fix the problem? If not, then it most likely
is a bug in Chrome.

In any case, it's a pretty moot point, since I'm rewriting Tab Organizer from scratch,
so if it IS a problem in Tab Organizer, it should be fixed once the rewrite is finished.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 21:46:39

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:04:23

• Labels added: Type-External
• Labels removed: Type-Bug

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:09:24

• Status changed: Available

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:17:41

• Labels removed: OS-All

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:32:46

• Labels added: Type-Visible
• Labels removed: Type-External

[Pauan]

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:36:10

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Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:39:19

• Labels removed: Priority-Critical

[Pauan]

The same problem just occurred in another Chrome extension that moves things from one
window to another (that didn't use to happen, either): I think that means the newer
versions of Chrome are causing the issue.

Reported by mail.do.Guilherme on 2012-09-07 00:51:22

[Pauan]

That's what I would expect, since extensions are REALLY limited in what they can do,
so it's very unlikely to be a bug in an extension.

This problem should mostly go away with Tab Organizer version 5, which uses virtual
groups rather than windows.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-09-07 15:31:24

• Status changed: External