[Request] Remote Stash

[minerharry]

This might be a lot of work and/or not possible from extensions. However, I think it would align very well with what winger is trying to do and would save me headaches. I switch what computer I'm working from fairly regularly, and enjoy firefox's various syncing features. I recently started using winger, and its ability to manage and store whole windows is very cool. I've found that I can keep rarely-used windows stashed most of the time, and pull them up on either computer when I need it. However, occasionally I forget to restash, or I want to access a more-used window from this one. What I'd love to be able to do is to somehow send a signal to the other computer to stash that window, so that I could fetch it on the other computer. Is that at all a possibility? Or are there other extensions that might be able to do a similar thing?

[l10nelw]

I've given this a lot of thought. The task would require implementing a system that's aware of windows across multiple profiles sharing a Firefox account. The 'signals' would piggyback on Firefox's sync mechanism. And of course remote actions expect the other computer to be online. Yes it would take work, and I'm not yet sure how much or if it could succeed because extensions do not have direct profile awareness.

Another idea I've had is a kind of "syncing stash" that periodically auto-updates to mirror an open window's changes. Also a lot of work. But taken to its logical conclusion, this one sounds like an auto session saver. So perhaps you could try looking for a bookmark-based, automatic session-saving (or at least window-saving) extension.

It's an interesting challenge and a feature with potential, so it's something I'll consider..

[minerharry]

Thinking about this, one potential much simpler version would be to have a (barebones) CLI - just something that could just list the active window names/tabs/id and let you stash by name/id. Then one could use whatever remote interface (ssh client, I personally like vscode's dev tunnels which gives you terminal access, etc) to stash. Looks like you might have to use native messaging and a lightweight external application that actually runs the CLI?