Session Management : Saving and Opening

Hi,

It would be very helpful if the saving of a session would put the correct session name in the text entry field. Currently it appears to be somewhat random, but it is never the name of the session that was selected for opening. So by 'correct' I mean that the "Save This Session" text entry field for the session name should be the name of the session that the current window was opened/populated with.

It would also be helpful it the session name field was a drop down list of all previously saved and currently available (ie not deleted) sessions. Or if was like a File Save As dialog box with a filesystem browser/selector.

The use case for this is as follows:

1. Open multiple Opera windows, each with it's own session consisting of multiple tabs.
2. Add and remove tabs, modify url's etc. Do all the stuff you usually do in a web browser.
3. Go to save each (independent and unrelated) Opera windows' session.

Currently at step 3 the present dialog "Save This Session" is cumbersome at best, dangerous at worst - since it is too easy to overwrite 'Session-A' with 'Session-B'.

An Example of How I Use Opera with Sessions:
My job is systems administration at a University IT department. I have duties in areas such as virtualizion (ESX etc), storage (SAN), backup, print services, file services, desktop management, etc. Since I am actively researching and managing these diverse areas I have several Opera windows going at once, each with a specific and related set of tabs open. I manage these groups of urls by saving each as a session. For example : Drivers, Storage, Backup, Virtualizaion, General, etc. So I have about 15 sessions that I use all the time. When I need to close a window I need to save the session it contains. This is where a more graceful and/or intelligent session management function would be very useful and appreciated.

Basically Opera is too good. Before sessions came along in Opera I would have had to save each tab as a bookmark. Ugh! That was fine back in the 1990's when the internet was young, there was no Google and the available content was limited. But today the huge amounts of data and rapid changes (growth and modification of existing content), coupled with the ability to find that data nearly instantly with Google have resulted in making Bookmarks far less useful. Thus multiple Windows/Sessions are now my primary method of processing and managing that data.

In other words the Web has become very dynamic - too dynamic for bookmarks to be as useful as they once were - and the dynamism of Sessions makes a much better tool to manage my access to that vast dynamic content.

Thanks for making such a fantastic browser!

Cheers,

Ron

Very nicely put. Wouldn't it be nice to also have the ability to have sub-folders in the Sessions, so one could categorize your content? Sub folders have been around for a long time, seems to me if I remember correctly even CP/M machines could form sub folders....... I guess it's not as fun for developers to make something really useful as much as to make more flashing glitz. Sign of the times I guess. Still, Opera is the best we have.

A Sessions Panel might be the way to go. Sessions management certainly needs some TLC.

Open Drag the link to create a button. Click and hold to show the sessions menu.

+1

When I discovered sessions, bookmarks >and chaos< are things of the past!

+1 for TS's suggestions, especially "create new session in separate process" and "open session in separate process". And while we're at it, options like "open window / tab /tab stack in separate process" would be vééry nice to have as well. Going through the opening CMD.exe with admin priv's and manually creating directory junctions for multi-process session management is a tedious job to say the very least.