command line switch for starting up with a saved session

aja

I've searched the chromium switches list and vivaldi://flags and not seen anything about this (at least not that has the word "session" in it). I would like to have a bunch of shotcuts on my desktop, each of which would open a different saved session. To do that means having a command line switch. Is there one?

RetroCoder80sV2

Is there any updates on this? I am also looking for a way to start sessions from command line.

telliott

This feature needs to be added soon. The power of sessions seems to be restricted to something you can choose AFTER the browser is open when most of the time, you want to open the browser to do a specific task like research news, catch up on social sites, etc. I guess setting the option to always start the browser with a specific set of tabs or last open tabs works for many but not for me!

I have a set of tabs I usually open but I need the default browser to open with only the home tab or the link specified when launched. Do I have to set a different default browser to do this? I tried making a shortcut with "--new-window links" in the command line but realized that you run into a character limit easily. I finally tried a batch file that starts with "@echo off" on the first line followed with each link on a new line. This seems like the best solution for now but the tabs weren't in the order of the specified links. Any way to fix this in Windows 10?

I really just want a desktop link to my favorite tab set without changing the default startup.

luetage

@telliott You can start up with a blank page and then open a session. There’s an available keyboard shortcut you can assign to it. And yeah, naming sessions and starting up with a specialized command would be the better way to do this, but as long as this is not possible, there’s not much reason for you to open up with last session, or set of pages.

grv87

+1 for this.

When I start working on a task or researching a topic, I (try to) open a new window and a lot of tabs in it. I google something and read each article until I find what I need or I'm satisfied. If I'm not done and time's off then I save this window as a session to continue later.
Now I have a lot of saved sessions, like, 50+.
When I return back to this task, it requires a lot of clicks and time to find and open that session. And of course keyboard shortcuts couldn't help me.

It would be much better to have a button (hyperlink, shortcut etc.) in my notes app or task manager which opens a specific session in Vivaldi, So that I could click it and continue my work promptly. It would save a lot of time and attention.

IMO, the best feature would be storing session files not in internal folder with .json extension, but in regular files, anywhere and with designated extension like .vivaldisession.
Such files could be opened the same way as .html files, just in this case Vivaldi would open not a single tab but the whole new window with a bunch of tabs.
Maybe Vivaldi even could have a New session menu item.

Because of the overhead of extra clicks I even quitted saving sessions last month and kept windows opened. And have about 25 opened windows now (

luetage

@grv87 You can open a session with zero clicks. First assign a shortcut to »open saved session« command, then

Open saved session
Use arrow keys to find the session.
Hit TAB 2 times and enter.

If you prefer clicking, you can put the »open saved session« command as menu entry in any context menu that’s easy to reach for you (e.g. tab bar, webpage, panel). Then click it, scroll to find your session, click to select and click to open.

Of course it would be easier being able to handle this from a command chain and open a saved session with parameter, then it would be a single shortcut.