Workspaces as separate sessions
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@burnout426 Arc Browser has it. Not differents sessions but profiles. In addition to the ability to customize each workspace and create folders and tabs.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@hevikk said in Workspaces as separate sessions:
but profiles
See this post for how to do that with Opera.
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AmericanEagle last edited by
This is the main reason I cannot use Opera as my primary browser... I just cannot mix company information, history and cookies with my personal profile.
Every mayor browsers have this feature and Opera is the only one without this feature... MacOS and Linux versions doesn't have an option to switch profiles.
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AmericanEagle last edited by
@edmarcio said in Workspaces as separate sessions:
no other browser in the market has it.
Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Vivaldi has this feature for years.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@burnout426 Thank you for your answer. Very complicated the use of profiles indicated. In Arc you can set as many profiles as you want in settings. Then, the workspaces, associate them with one of them. And select if you need the same applications that are built into the default profile or add new ones. You can also individualize each one, with its respective color and background page. Also, when I open a second window in Opera, the workspaces do not appear in this one. And if by mistake, I don't realize it and I close first the window with the boards, and then the second window, the next time I open Opera, there are no more workspaces. And I must proceed to restore them in the Default folder. In all the other browsers I tried, the workspaces are synchronized centrally and never disappear. Regards.
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A Former User last edited by
@prazgreen Islands are a marketing way of selling lash grouping, albeit in a very cute and visual way. Vivaldi has three different ways of grouping its tabs. Similar to Opera's island shape, would be the "accordion" shape in Vivaldi.
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edmarcio last edited by
@burnout426 this should be ok if no other Chromium browser did it but why others can but Opera not?
For example Arc workspace can have different profiles.
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edmarcio last edited by
@AmericanEagle recently only Arc has it.
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edmarcio last edited by edmarcio
This is still the big miss in Opera even after years.
I keep trying to move to another browser due that... if Arc was not so bad in Windows I should have be using it but Opera UI is still king for me.Just miss Workspace with different profiles/session... there is no point in using Workspace without that.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@Allex50 See https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/new_profile, check Create Multiple Profiles for Opera
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edmarcio last edited by edmarcio
@leocg but you can't use them in Workspace.
You need to have 2 windows opened... that way is the same as having two browser opened (Opera and Chrome).I don't know how people use their browsers... but I have one browser for Work and another browser for Personal because the authentications in the sites are different (aka my Work profile should be different from my Personal profile)... when I say one browser it means one of instance of any browser running with a profile (so it can be two Operas).
The best way to organize that is to have one workspace for Work, one workspace for Personal and even have options to have others workspaces like University for example.
But without profiles / session per workspace it will never works... so it become useless to use Workspaces because in the actual state of Opera you will need to have two Windows opened.Workspace is suppose to allow you to have grup of tabs without need to have another windows (browser instance)... but not having profiles / sessions kills it purpose.
In simple terms if I already have to open two, three, etc browsers to deal with different "working subjects" then why I need workspaces at all? Unless these workspaces allow to have different "working subjects" wihtout need a new windows / browser opened it will be useless and redundant.
PS. It become even more trick if you work with several clients... so for example the Salesforce authentication for one client is different from others clients... in that case you could have one workspace per client but how Opera works you need to have one browser window (instance of opera) per client.
I have no ideia how when we ask for workspaces with different profiles some here understand that we want just different profiles lol
Like I said if I need a new window to have different profiles then it will be same as having several browsers... it doesn't organize anything at all.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@edmarcio Yep, you got the point, you can't have a different profile for each workspace. However, you can have different profiles, each one with its workspaces.
Workspaces, as said, it's just a way to have tabs grouped and separated by category,nothing more than that.
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edmarcio last edited by edmarcio
@leocg the point is... there are example of Chromium browsers that does it... so it is possible... I explained that before.
That has nothing to do with Chromium... it was about Opera.
Before that excuse was used here but today we have Chromium browsers with Workspace that have different profiles.Explain to me how can The Browser Company can do it and Opera not?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@edmarcio I see that you mentioned Arc browser. I've downloaded and installed it to test but it requires that I create an account jus to use the browser and it's highly suspicious, even more from an unknown browser.
Based on what what I read on their page, their workspaces seems more of an (sidebar) extension.
