Maintain history of saved tabs

[bitspook]

A tab is more than just a URL; browser tabs remember their history. It is useful
e.g when I have reached a place after judicious searching; I'd like to revisit
the search results.

[MorphicResonance]

Don't know is it normal but spookfox writes all opened tabs into the org file. If i run new tab via org-tabs-open it write url of the google search results page as new heading without page title. If I click on that page and link will be opened as new tab in the browser spookfox will write new heading as url too. It writes all new tabs opened.

• google.com/search?q=guppy
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CREATED: [2022-11-03 Thu 01:57]
  :ID: 2477cec5-fce0-42be-b39a-eb89f7fafdfd
  :URL: about:blank
  :CHAINED: t
  :END:

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_(ecology)
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CREATED: [2022-11-03 Thu 02:00]
  :ID: 969eb50f-2c9e-46cd-a0c0-773af3e732f8
  :URL: about:blank
  :CHAINED: t
  :END:

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CREATED: [2022-11-03 Thu 01:59]
  :ID: e469c696-5bcf-4751-96cd-bfb6874c8847
  :URL: about:blank
  :CHAINED: t
  :END:

[bitspook]

It is definitely not normal. And also not happening on my machine^TM. Doing spookfox-org-tabs-open and entrying 'guppy' opens a DDG tab in my case, and following any link on that page is propagated to my spookfox.org file as I expect it to (i.e as a single org subtree).

Can you please tell me which versions of spookfox.el and spookfox firefox addon you are using?

---

There is actually a heisenbug in spookfox which show the behavior as you explain; but for me it happens super rarely and I haven't been able to replicate it reliably yet. Every once in a blue moon I see orphan subtrees in my spookfox.org file which have URL in title and about:black in URL: property. Can you please play around a bit and try to figure out a methodical way of replicating this issue?

[MorphicResonance]

I've run several test on windows 11 with 107.0 (64 bit)
browser. Freshest ath this date. Ublock origin was turned on.
Commented lines are what I've done with tabs and after # results you
can see what's happened.
Blank after # results mean nothing was inserted in the file.

* Tabs

# ------ test 1 --------
# run tab by opening new tab in the firefox
# results
* New tab
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 07:35]
:ID:       623e7e84-53d2-4512-a327-a587d3e122a8
:URL:      about:newtab
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# manually insert url https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite into
# this tab
# results


# click link that opened in the same tab
# results

   # push back button

# click link that opened in the same tab again
# results


   # push back button

# open link in the new tab by opening link via context menu in the previous tab
# results
* evalapply.org/
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:08]
:ID:       cc62ad17-ac83-4caa-a3db-66182209f195
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# clicked link 'thanks, Buttondown!' on the page evalapply.org. Should
# be named as 'Buttondown' 
# results

* New tab
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:12]
:ID:       6c55db51-54c3-4f48-80b5-7571ad729c5e
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# clicked link 'email octopus' at the page https://buttondown.email/
# results

# open link 'convertkit'  via content menu as new window in firefox
# at the page https://buttondown.email
# results

* buttondown.email/comparisons/convertkit
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:20]
:ID:       3e8a8d0a-157a-45bf-86ae-c085749de6a1
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# open link 'blog' from the page https://buttondown.email in the
# same tab
# results


# open link 'Attach files to your emails' in the new tab from the
# page https://blog.buttondown.email/
# results
* blog.buttondown.email/2022/07/17/attachments
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:24]
:ID:       2ee12449-e695-49c4-bf77-7c75dea21bd4
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:


# ------ test 2 ------ 
# run fresh tab by clicking click
# https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite in emacs scratch buffer
# results

* New tab
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:18]
:ID:       c446968a-f0cf-49bf-ad6b-f61228682208
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# click link  'slides' to pdf file on that page
# results

# push back button


# open link 'video,' into new private window
# results
# close private window


# ------ test 3 ------ 
# run spookfox-org-tabs-open with request 'shite static site generator'
# results
* google.com/search?q=shite+static+site+generator
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:39]
:ID:       45ac365a-5127-41f2-b947-dea0e8014209
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:
# click the first serp link. opened github.com/adityaathalye/shite
# in the same tab
# results


# duplicate tab of github.com/adityaathalye/shite
# results
* New tab
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:41]
:ID:       de56b00e-9cdb-4682-9d72-bf39fedffe9a
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# refresh tab
# results

# duplicate tab github.com/adityaathalye/shite again
# results
* New tab
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:43]
:ID:       dae0669c-8ae7-4a53-91b2-5823b2b269ba
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# opened link github.com/topics/shell in new tab manually via
# context menu of firefox
# results
* github.com/topics/shell
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:46]
:ID:       d03ba96e-3fdf-4a7f-a9d9-54cb3faacdbd
:URL:      about:blank
:CHAINED:  t
:END:

# open link https://github.com/topics/markdown from the same page
# results

* New tab
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED:  [2022-11-17 Thu 08:48]
:ID:       43514e74-9eee-4477-9383-cd3941f18d92
:URL:      about:blank

Note that tabs names headings filled as 1st level org heading under leader * Tabs.

[bitspook]

Thanks a lot for methodically test it @MorphicResonance !

The url going in heading (i.e * <url> line) should stay like that for barely a second; url always go in the :URL: property.
I'll look into this.
Can you please tell me the Emacs version you are using?

[MorphicResonance]

Currently GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2022-04-21. I'll try with emacs 29.

[bitspook]

Hey,
Just wanted to drop a message that I haven't yet looked closely into this issue yet. Right now I am held up by life and will take a closer look and respond once I can get a moment of peace.

[bitspook]

Hello @MorphicResonance ,

Sorry for responding so late. org-tabs spookfox app has to sync a lot of state b/w Firefox and Emacs, and due to that is the most problematic one. I think I am going to significantly change its scope soon (#30). Instead of "this org file is now your tab bar" approach, I am going to change it to "this org file is the archive of tabs". I am still thinking it over, but if I decide to go with it, I will close this ticket as "Won't do" since it'll be out of scope then.