Alternatives to iCloud Tabs

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Alternatives to iCloud Tabs

Hey,

In the past three months the iCloud tabs aren't working on my devices. Apple Support tried all they can but eventually my problem went all the way to Cupertino, when they are investigating it and hopefully will release a patch for it.

Since I’m a heavy user of this feature and I have different hundreds of tabs open in each of my devices, I need a solution for the time being, so I figured I should move to different browser. Opera and Edge felt weird and unfinished, Chrome is good but I’m worry about the RAM problem on my Mac, and Firefox was almost perfect but its UI looks like 2005.

Anyway, is there a standalone service/plug-in that can sync my tabs from Safari from all my devices to a list I can click to open?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 20, 2021 4:53 PM

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Feb 21, 2021 9:22 AM in response to idoks

I have had this same issue. The other major browsers do offer tab synching, but as you note, there are drawbacks. When it works properly (which has been an issue recently), Safari offers the best experience IMO. Let's hope they fix this iCloud tab issue soon.

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Feb 24, 2021 12:34 PM in response to Emissary1

I'm really hoping they will, but as far as I know, they found nothing in my logs. They said "it's a mystery". Have you heard about a service that can sync tabs independently? I'm really suffering from this and eventually I won't have a choice...

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Feb 24, 2021 12:38 PM in response to idoks

Whom have you spoken to about this? You should talk to tier ii support, not the first level support people, who are generally very unhelpful except for the most basic things. There are a large number of support cases open on this, with Apple acknowledging to all of us that there's an issue that they're working on resolving. But who's to say whether it's just smoke they're blowing in our direction or whether they're actually making a concerted effort.

As for your question: Firefox and Chrome both have tab syncing as a standard feature. If it is a make-or-break feature for you, I'd switch to one of those browsers.

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Feb 24, 2021 12:47 PM in response to Emissary1

I've talked about it with a personal "Senior Adviser" from Greece that called me every week to collect logs for Cupertino. She said that now it's in her hands and we collected all they need, and then some.

Of course that if I won't have a choice and until Sep (max) they won't fix it I'll move (to Firefox probably, because I'm afraid of the RAM use of Chrome and the bad UI of Opera. Edge and Vivaldi have this feature too?), but I think it's only logical to have some 3rd party service somewhere that will do it independently, as a plugin or an app that support Safari... Do you know some forums that I can ask that (and get a response too, unlike most Reddit threads)

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Feb 24, 2021 12:49 PM in response to idoks

There's a program called CloudyTabs, but it piggybacks off Safari, so if Safari's cloud syncing isn't work for open tabs/pages, then CloudyTabs also won't work. That's all I know about.

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Feb 24, 2021 2:39 PM in response to Emissary1

Oh that's great, are there alternatives to CloudyTabs that aren't relying on iCloud?

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