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@LonM
I'm a frontend developer that is working on several different projects at any given moment and using Opera for a long time.
The primary use case of Opera Workspaces for me is to get rid of all the separate windows that would be related to different topics like my personal life, my work etc. This is important so that I can focus on the task in hand and also I don't have to Cmd+Tab my way to the related window all the time.
Workspaces are global in Opera. If I open a new Opera window and switch to a workspace and then close that window simply nothing happens. My workspaces are still available until I remove them manually.
I use workspaces all the time. This is the only feature that prevents me using any other browser. My personal life and work (which usually spread across couple workspaces), they all have their own workspace(s) and I only switch to them when it's relevant.
I guess this probably can depend on one's computer but, since I use a MacbookPro with 64GB memory, I never saw one hibernating in Opera even waking my computer up after an all night sleep. I would definitely like to have an option to keep everything active.
This is not only makes switching to a workspace fast, it also affects the way I work. Sometimes I create a workspace for researching something about I'm currently working on while keeping the actual work on a separate workspace so I can easily go back to it. Keeping everything active makes this possible.
For me manual switching from sidebar is enough. You can also configure specific shortcuts to quickly switch to a certain workspace in Opera and that's more than enough for me.
I used Arc for a while since they have Spaces just like Opera's Workspaces. I would continue using it, their implementation of Spaces is very similar to Opera's (everything stays active all the time and you can quickly switch between spaces by assigning them to specific shortcuts and etc.) but the browser itself lacks a lot of features that I would normally use so I went back to Opera.
