Please enable automatic session backup by default

[Poto]

I just had the worst crash ever. vivaldi suddenly crashed, all webpages disappeared, no history whatsoever, and no cloud-synced data was visible on the phone (after experiencing a cloud-sync glitch, where I had just finished syncing the key on the phone, and then Vivaldi crashed on the computer).

Honestly, this feature of cloud syncing web pages on the phone often fails, the experience is very bad

now I have hundreds of web pages that I can't get back, there is no history of any kind

in the Telegram group for help only to find out that the session autobackup feature, but the bad news is that it's turned off by default

why not turn on autobackup of sessions by default?Vivaldi often crashes, the stability of which is poor, and turn on the session backup by default. Vivaldi crashes a lot and is not very stable, so turning on session backup by default will help a lot. Backing up users' web pages is more important than being politically correct.

[Pesala]

@Poto said in Please enable automatic session backup by default:

Vivaldi often crashes, the stability of which is poor, and turn on the session backup by default.

I cannot remember the last time Vivaldi crashed. IIRC it was one particular Snapshot about a year ago.

It makes no sense to turn on backup by default. For me, it would just waste disk space and probably never be used. One can simply enable automatic backup on creating a session, if it is needed.

It would be better to find out why Vivaldi crashes so often for you:

1. Too many tabs
2. A particular extension
3. Something else

[Poto]

@Pesala Yes, Too many tabs

Habitually open many tabs

[luetage]

@Poto I argued at one point backup should be enabled by default. The developers counterargument was it compromises privacy when users aren’t aware of stored history of their tabs, therefore it won’t be done. In my opinion users should get a choice to enable it when onboarding.

[ChuckBaggett]

@Poto I agree. Turning automatic session backup on by default is better. People concerned with it taking up space can delete sessions and disable automatic backups. Doing it that way doesn't cause sessions to be lost.

Saving a few backup sessions doesn't take an exorbitant amount of memory. We aren't running computers on single-sided floppy disks anymore.