Workspaces with different sessions
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It would be very useful to be able to give the possibility of choosing if the Workspaces are executed with different sessions or under the same session. In this way, we could have Workspaces to see different email accounts, etc... and easily change accounts with F2
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@IvanRosLiwe That’s not possible. There is your profile and your current session of one or more windows. The windows can be from different sessions. The windows will contain workspaces according to their parent session. But workspaces cannot hold a session, they can’t be their parents parent, so to speak.
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@IvanRosLiwe Thanks for pointing this out. I've come to the same conclusion as you after having multiple online profiles to bounce between.
If I'm going to be in workspace X working on X's YouTube, X's Pinterest, and X's Facebook, and then go over to workspace Y to pull up Y's Facebook to work on Y's profile, and there is workspace X's session that I need to logout of, which also logs X's session out, I then have to log Y out to work with X again.
Without session isolation between workspaces I'm finding it difficult to understand Vivaldi's aim on workspace management. Perhaps it is work in progress and session independence is on the horizon.
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I'd also love to see this feature! While two different profiles can work, swapping between workspaces is so much more slick. But when both personal and work mail is on Google, that doesn't work very well without separate Google sessions.
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Well session management was just introduced to Vivaldi and I had high hopes tab workspaces would be somehow isolated from each other to provide independence between several online accounts on the same platforms (separate cookie, cache, data). As explained above, having multiple logins active with Google, YouTube, and other social media accounts without manually switch each login between workspace or session as is common for online content creators or marketing specialists. Vivaldi session management here is frankly misleading.
I just tested isolation and there is still no separate session handling: ie, logging into YouTube in one session also logs me into the same account in another workspace/session. Honestly I'd hope for session independence on workspaces before working on another parent of workspaces without addressing session independence. Workspace containment alone was fine, although I do prefer they all be listed together in the side tabs for quicker switching over the single drop down and single view case. That's a minor detail however.
My hope is that Vivaldi development will catch up with the multiple-sessioned demands of social media today.
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Now that workspaces aren't the king of the hill anymore, we might need to change the title of this thread to "Sessions with different sessions", pun intended.
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@JJDP Also because is him the true king of the hill...
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@JJDP Thats what im looking for!!
I was having a conversation with a friend who uses Mozilla, and he told me about an extension called Multi Login Container.
It allows you to have separate sessions or workspaces, which I found fascinating.
I was actually hoping that Vivaldi, the browser I use, would have a similar feature
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I too would like workspaces to be isolated from each other so I can have one per customer where each customer may use for example different MS365 tenants which would save having to logout and log back in when switching between customer
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@parsedave Then please try different profiles: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tools/user-profiles/
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@stardepp - thanks it does give the separation I was looking for - I'll try working with it
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@stardepp That works but having multiple Vivaldi windows open (one for each profile) is not as nice as swapping workspaces and only having a single Vivaldi window open
It is a workable solution - which I will use
If each Vivaldi window showed its profile name when you hover over it that would be easier to use (or allowed customisation of the taskbar icon)
Thank you for your suggestion and help
Regards
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@teknolai said in Workspaces with different sessions:
I'd also love to see this feature! While two different profiles can work, swapping between workspaces is so much more slick. But when both personal and work mail is on Google, that doesn't work very well without separate Google sessions.
Idem, i thought workspace waste true separation... (cookies, cache... etc...)
It would be good to add this option : True Separation
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Workspaces without cookie/session separation is useless (sorry Vivaldi devs).
"Profiles" is a Chromium feature (--profile-directory) and I don't want to use that, I don't want to have a separate window just to have "Workspaces" alternative.
The closest to what I want is Firefox Tab Containers but it doesn't have Workspace switching like Vivaldi. Firefox had Workspaces (Tab Groups) but they removed it after they removed XUL extensions.Also discussed here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/25289/multi-account-containers/
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+1 on this feature.
I also added a feature request here, regarding similar feature found in Arc browser. They have really nailed this functionality by asking if you want to connect a workspace to a specific profile when setting up a new workspace.
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I was using my workspaces successfully each with different google facebook instagram accounts, etc.... for a few months now (im new to vivaldi), however, sunday vivaldi froze and deleted my workspaces without even a record of the tabs saved there, and now i cannot use separate website accounts on my different workspaces. this is really sad and kinda defeats the purpose of the workspace. There is no benefit of separate workspaces if i have to re-login whenever i switch workspaces. Since i work from home this is a feature i needed the most and was looking for years to find. Vivaldi, please fix this bug.....we do not want separate profiles! We need truly independent workspaces, otherwise, I would just open two windows making one private so i could have separate browser sessions logged in.
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Workspace without different sessions / profiles is indeed useless.
This should be a priority request.And before somebody come to say it is impossible in Chromium... Arc did so it is not impossible at all.
