Problem: Timimi in Chrome with two TW tabs open

#1

Hi everyone

I am using Chrome on my Windows laptop. I was editing a local standalone TW file (5.3.1), and I opened a separate tab with Gospels Bubbles — to see the passages while I was working.

From that moment, when I went to save in my local file, it called up the save dialog box, which I closed without saving a copy. The ‘Saved wiki’ notification appeared also. But when I refreshed my browser tab, the work I did was gone.

When I closed the Gospels Bubbles tab, saving went back to normal, as it had before I opened the Gospel Bubbles tab.

I didn’t lose any work, because I had a feeling it might not save, so I refreshed soon after the behavior began, in order to test the waters.

But I thought it would be important to register this behavior here, because it could be a problem that affects others in the future. Does having a tab open with an online TW create the possibility of interference with Timimi’s saving mechanism in another tab with a local file?

#2

Hey Dave,

I just did an experiment with two of my single file wikis on Chrome and didn’t have any issues saving either one. I didn’t try this on my laptop, but, on the desktop it worked just fine.

Have you tried other wikis to see if it’s specific to one of them?

#3

Was one of them online? I am wondering if Timimi detects an online TW and uses that procedure first, which blocks the saving procedure for the local file.

#4

No, neither one of them were online. I don’t have any online ones at this time.

That may have something to do with it.

#5

Is Gospel Bubbles for you a saveable file?

I’m always using a mix – local files with timimi, tiddlywiki dot com for reference, a local file with node, and local files with webdav. And I just tried it with an empty html and gospel bubbles up. Everything worked fine.

However, I’m running chromium, not Chrome, though they should be nearly the same for this. What version of Chrome are you running?

People, at least on Linux, are reporting problems with Timimi and firefox. So it might be that the API’s they are a’changing.

#6

There is a problem with Timimi when the address bar of the wikis includes additional content like after a ?

I have had to restart the browser when this occurs.

#7

I was using the online file of Gospels Bubbles linked above. Clicking the save button downloads it. And when that was open, I was getting the same behavior, asking me to save it in a new location, with my local file instead of it simply saving changes.

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#8

I’m getting a little lost here:

What is “that” ? Do you mean the save dialog? Or do you mean you then opened the locally saved version of GB ?

#9

I was using the online file of Gospels Bubbles linked above. Clicking the save button downloads it. And when [the online file of Gospels Bubbles] was open, I was getting the same behavior, asking me to save it in a new location, with my local file instead of it simply saving changes.

#10

Yeah, that was how I was testing.

What version of Chrome?

Once GB was closed, was all good?

Is there any possibility an upgrade might have turned “Allow access to file URLs” off?

#11

117.0.5938.92 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Yes, closing Gospel Bubbles, without even closing Chrome and restarting, did the trick.

Allow access to file URLs is on