Workspaces as separate sessions
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rodrigocipriani last edited by
@leocg, that's weird. Workspace is/was a tab group that now is Workspaces. It seems like it's tab groups with new clothes. I believe that this comment was probably a misunderstanding.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@rodrigocipriani Workspaces are a way to organize windows and tabs by theme, by subject.
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jojo0587 last edited by
@leocg said in Workspaces as separate sessions:
Also I don't know if Chromium allows to have multiple isolated sessions.
It allows because a certain browser running on Chromium has profiles for a long time. And yes, you can even run several profiles at once.
My proposals for changes in Opera (Google Document).
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rodrigocipriani last edited by
I believe that what the majority here is saying is that workspace is a nice feature, and everyone loves it, but it would be a lot more useful if you could choose to start a new workspace by sharing the session or using a new one.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Workspaces are just a visual separation of tabs. They're still all on the main tab bar behind the scenes.
Chromium doesn't provide a way for a single tab (or a group of tabs) to have its own cache, cookies, history and session etc., so this wish/suggestion isn't practically possible in Opera. So, this suggestion is almost a no-go from the start.
However, it might be possible to implement this if Opera would spend the huge amount of time and resources to implement the behavior on top of Chromium and patch in the changes every time Opera is built. It's a long shot though. Also, in this case, Opera would have to maintain this huge patch and fix it every time Chromium changes something and breaks it.
A more realistic change would be to get Chromium to provide an extension API to do this so that Opera could implement this with a component extension.
This wish/suggestion would still be cool for those that want it though. It's just not a simple thing to have.
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intrepidpursuit last edited by
@rodrigocipriani Exactly. Why someone would be so against adding a feature that wouldn't affect existing features is beyond me.
Terminology might be causing some confusion and could for users I guess. This could be implemented as a new feature called "Sessions" or something with similar accessibility from the sidebar.
I use one computer for work and personal, being able quickly switch between sessions or easily have separate windows with different accounts (not necessarily profiles) logged in would be a game changer. Right now I just have to use a different browser for each.
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rodrigocipriani last edited by
@intrepidpursuit Yeah, that's it!
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