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Big Workspaces Open in a Second

Navigation v1.4.3

1.4.3 opens big workspaces in about one second, where before the same load took about four seconds: the tab you are on loads, and every other tab opens asleep. Nav's search now works on the browser's own new tab page, where Alt+K used to open a blank tab. Your settings carry over, and there are no new permissions.

  • Big workspaces open in about one second, the rest of the tabs asleep.
  • Press Alt+K on the new tab page and search is ready.
  • A note offers to make Nav the default new tab page.
  • Each window now gets its own sidebar page.
  • Opening a workspace no longer fails if a tab closes while the workspace opens.

Big Workspaces Open in a Second

When you open a workspace, only the tab you are on loads; every other tab opens asleep, showing its real title and icon right away and loading its page the moment you open it. Your groups, order, and pinned and muted tabs are kept, and it works the same way when a workspace opens by itself when the browser starts, and when you rewind with time travel. Before, a workspace of 54 tabs in 5 groups loaded every site at once and took about four seconds to settle; now the same workspace settles in about one second. A sleeping tab stays out of your browser history until you open it, so pressing Back on a tab you just opened never takes you to an empty page, and the sleeping tabs keep working even if you turn Nav off.

Alt+K Works on the New Tab Page

Nav search on the new tab page with a note offering to make Nav the default new tab page.

Chrome and Edge do not let extensions run on their own new tab page, so Alt+K there used to open a second blank tab. Now it opens Nav’s search in the same tab, with the search box ready. If Nav’s new tab page is off, a small note explains why and offers two choices: Make default turns it on, so new tabs open Nav, and No thanks never asks again. On other browser pages, like Settings, Alt+K opens Nav’s search in a new tab instead of an empty one.

Fixes & Other Changes

  • Each window now keeps its own sidebar page, so Alt+B on a browser page in a second window no longer jumps you to the first.
  • Opening a workspace no longer fails if one of its tabs closes while it is opening, so the tabs are never left ungrouped.
  • No new permissions.