So in order to move from Chrome to Firefox, I used the Tab Session Manager extension on both to export my chrome tabs/windows and import them into Firefox.
However, TSM in Firefox failed to read the export from Chrome, so I needed to manually import the sessions, which required a little extra processing with node.js:
https://gist.github.com/ThisIsMissEm/20ed76a36e8eb1e6f360a50cfb0d8411
@thisismissem nice!
When I switched to Firefox, I tried to leave the door open to returning to Chrome by extracting bookmarks and passwords out into separate cross-browser self-host-friendly tools ( https://www.xbrowsersync.org/ and https://bitwarden.com/ )
Thanks for letting me know about Tab Session Manager, that fills a void
The only other thing I'm looking for in this space is something to synchronise history
Then again, it's doubtful I'll be coming back to Chrome, so maybe all I'm doing at this point is maintaining some probably-YAGNI portability at the cost of some convenience and coherent-integration
@jokeyrhyme Tab Session Manager is okay, but I really want is https://clusterwm.com for Firefox.
I've decided I'm just going to do a hard switch, which reduces the need for sync. Already didn't store passwords or similar in Chrome, and only Addresses & History needed migration.
@thisismissem It seems the import functionality is very… cranky. I imported a Chrome export into Firefox with it (155 tabs, 2 windows, I recently trimmed down a bit) and it seems the new entry just didn’t show up in the list until I restarted Firefox!
Until I /realized/ that I’d gone pretty far down a path of trying to figure out possible JSON diffs in Chrome/Firefox exports that might cause that, but I’m going to tiptoe away from that now.
Thanks for pointing to that extension either way.
@jochie yeah, hence doing the export, then using a script to parse the export & manually importing. Took maybe 20-30 minutes to migrate via the Settings > Sessions > Import text field
@thisismissem @technicat Would it work to bookmark all open tabs and then export/import bookmarks?
@skry @technicat I *hate* bookmarks, bookmarks are where things go to die. At least my windows and tabs are mostly organised.