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Chrome Remote Desktop vs OneTab

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When comparing Chrome Remote Desktop vs OneTab, the Slant community recommends OneTab for most people. In the question“What are the best extensions for chromium based browsers?” OneTab is ranked 1st while Chrome Remote Desktop is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose OneTab is:

It takes all of your tabs (choose between all/all-except-current/current/all-to-right/all-to-left) and turns them into links in a special OneTab tab where you can further manage your tabs by dividing them into groups, removing duplicates and securing them so that they can't be removed unless unsecured.

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Pros

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Simple set-up

All you need to do is install a Chrome extension.

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Impressively fast

Faster than most similar applications.

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Easy to install

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Completely free

There are no restrictions on how you use it.

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Cross-platform

Works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Keeps making sure connection is still wanted

Every few minutes the sharer gets a popup asking if they want to continue sharing the screen, while the popup is shown the viewer can't control anything. This is important in case the sharer forgets to close the connection.

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Allows viewer to make actions

If the user that shares their screen doesn't touch the mouse/keyboard the viewer can control them which makes it easy take actions instead of explaining by voice.

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Overall very useful

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You can organize links by dragging and dropping them

You can drag and drop links/tabs to reorder them by relevance, or to move them from one list to another.

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Non-invasive

The OneTab dashboard only appears the first time you open your browser after quitting, although you can also make it appear through the extension button in the extensions bar. This is less invasive behavior than the Chrome extensions that appear every time you open a new browser tab.

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Provides just enough information

OneTab provides just the right amount of meta-info about the tabs you've saved. It groups them by session, and tells you how many tabs are in each session, as well as the date the session was created. Every saved tab includes the bookmarked favicon and page title.

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Management & sharing of saved sessions

OneTab makes it very easy to restore, delete, share, lock, rename, and favorite your saved tab sessions. OneTab also makes it easy to share, export and import URLs into your OneTab dashboard as a whole.

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Cons

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Single user only

If multiple users want to connect to a device, they have to take turns.

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Can get messy

The OneTab tab has everything in a list format with just simple headings describing what you have in this or that list. It isn't comfortable to manage it when you have quite a lot of tabs in there.

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Slightly confusing UX

It's easy to forget that clicking on the OneTab button in the extensions bar doesn't show you options – it saves your current session by closing all your tabs in the given browser window. That might be slightly annoying if you were trying to access the OneTab dashboard or view OneTab options instead of trying to save your current session in OneTab, but this is only a minor inconvenience given how easy it is to restore your session.

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Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

This is not so much a con as much as it is a heads up for those who use OneTab as a form of transient digital bookmarking (like me!). When you click on a tab/link in any given OneTab session, that will cause it to disappear from the list of tabs in that section. It would be nice if there was an interim period or separate place where the link is still visible/accessible. That or it would be nice to have a version history of past closed tabs/links and sessions.