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Your Open Tabs Are Backed Up Before a Sync Restore

Navigation v1.3.2

The headline here fixes a real data-loss case: installing Nav on a new device with workspaces already in the cloud could restore one over your current window and wipe the open tabs with no way back. Now those tabs are saved as a named workspace before anything is swapped in, and a toast names it so you can reopen them. Keyboard hint mode also picks up where you left off when you tap Shift again, and link handling is a little stricter. This tab-safety fix came straight from an uninstall note — we read every single one.

  • Setting up Nav on a second device no longer risks your open tabs — when a synced workspace restores into a window, the tabs already there are saved first as a named workspace, and a toast tells you which one to look for
  • Keyboard hint mode now resumes from the last hint you had active when you re-press Shift, instead of jumping back to the first hint (Esc still starts fresh)
  • Only http and https links are stored in workspaces and assigned on the new-tab page

Your Tabs Are Saved Before a Sync Restore

When Nav restores a synced workspace into a window — most often the first time you set it up on a second device — it has to clear that window’s current tabs to swap the workspace in. Until now, on that first-install path, it could do that without saving what was already open. If you had real work in those tabs, they were gone with no backup.

That’s fixed. Before restoring, Nav saves the window’s current tabs as a named workspace, and a toast tells you what it’s called so you can find them again. The backup only happens when the tabs aren’t already preserved somewhere, so ongoing sync of a workspace you’re already using doesn’t leave duplicates behind.

Hint Mode Picks Up Where You Left Off

Hold Shift and Nav shows keyboard hint badges, with one hint marked active. Before, releasing Shift and pressing it again reset you to the first hint every time. Now it resumes from the last hint you had active, as long as that element is still on screen. Press Esc when you want to start over from the default.

Fixes

  • Only http and https links are stored in workspaces and assigned on the new-tab page, so nothing odd can slip into a saved link.