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Safari tab groups fail to sync silently with '&' in name

This is more FYI. Tried syncing Safari tab-groups from old MBP to new one and it failed to sync 3 tab groups with all settings being correct.

After looking more into this, I realised I have tab-group named "something&somethingelse". Syncing quietly fails when encountering such character ("&").


To remedy the problem, I opened new tab-group "something" on old MBP and moved all tabs there. Then I removed old tab-group ("something&somethingelse") and things worked.


I think there's 2-3 bugs here:

  • do not parse tab-group name
  • document characters that can't be used in name until 1) is fixed
  • do NEVER fail silently leaving user wondering what went wrong


Hope this helps.

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