Workspaces with different sessions

mib2berlin

@Edmarcio
Hi, we have a very old an high voted feature request about this.
It is tagged as "NICE TO HAVE", nothing more to say.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/25289/multi-account-containers

Edmarcio

@mib2berlin thanks.
I replied there to give some suggestions... I mean Multi-account container like Firefox is too disorganized... you can have Tab with a profile or others side by side making users commit mistakes.

I think the approach as each Workspace can have it own profile more interesting and better designed to avoid any type of confusion or mistake.

planetary

I don't think workspaces are useless without different sessions (they let me sandbox off having a bunch of tabs open for later without having a dozen Vivaldi windows open), however, I would like either workspace or tab specific session containers like Firefox does. The best example for this is how awful the account switcher on Twitter is.
Let's say I see a bunch of tweets on one account and want to interact with them on another. I have to effectively put them in a new tab, switch to the other account, then whichever tab I switched the account on will forcibly be moved to the home timeline.
This will then proceed to forcibly reload every single tab with a rather slow loading period for EACH individual post opened on a separate tab — that is, if it works at all. Sometimes, Twitter gets confused and you're effectively in a quantum both-accounts state. The account switcher displays the previous account but interactions should happen on the account you switched to. It does not let you interact with anything without resulting in an error. Likewise, if you use the account switcher to switch to either account, error message, forcing you to hit F5. This means I often stack up a bunch of useless tabs to "take care of later" when I finally switch accounts and then back because the process of multi-account is so slow and tedious.

Truthfully, this should probably be fixed by Twitter, but knowing who currently runs it, he'd probably charge 20 bucks a month for it if he even has capable employees who could even fix this left working on the platform.

Firefox session containers, however, circumvent that problem entirely since Twitter doesn't need to change sessions since they're sandboxed from each other. The thing is, Firefox is not my main browser and I'm not gonna use it for basic social media use.

ianwalter

Please add this (ability to assign profiles to workspaces). I bet there are a lot of people like me leaving Arc that would like to switch to Vivaldi. SigmaOS also has this and I think Zen browser does too.

korho

Hello,

I ha to join this forum as I saw this post and wanted to contribute to the discussion. Like the original poster and several others, I have a specific need with the session management due to the session dependent internet.

In my job I would greatly benefit from a browser that supports easy switching between workspaces with separate sessions and cookies, while maintaining the same overall browser settings and extensions. This feature is crucial because it simplifies my workflow significantly; currently, I must create different profiles, customize them, install extensions, and log into Bitwarden, etc.

The necessity for different sessions is from managing multiple customers and having various accounts that need to remain completely separate. Occasionally, I may even have multiple accounts for the same customer or internal software.

One particular challenge I have with is with Microsoft environments, where logging into one account can authenticate the session across multiple applications, making it impossible to use an admin user and a non-admin user simultaneously.

I've experimented with numerous browsers—too many to count. Arc seemed promising for a while, but it started to glitch some times, and its command palette became a frustration, adding unnecessary steps to the browsing process with it's suggestions.

I've also tried Safari. It functions adequately, but as it uses a different engine, content blockers are problematic, and I find its inspector/debugger tools difficult to adjust to. Despite Safari maintaining consistent extensions across profiles - the extensions do not share sessions.

Regarding Google Chrome, I am avoiding to use it due to Google's approach of deprecating features such as manifest version 2 and certain content blockers, which renders many of the extensions I rely on ineffective.

Introducing a feature in Vivaldi that allows for separate workspaces with distinct sessions would make it the perfect browser, at least I think so far – as I have used it. The versatility, customizability and robustness of the browser is a clear advantage to the other browsers.

And of course, this feature should be optional. Some people like to have same sessions between workspaces and separate their work only with URL, but sadly that is not an option for me.

Once I find a browser that ticks all these boxes, I will definitely commit to it—and Vivaldi is almost there. If this final step were implemented, Vivaldi would be a browser I'll even pay for.

Can Vivaldi be made perfect? Is this THE browser?

iAN CooG

@korho said in Workspaces with different sessions:

Regarding Google Chrome, I am avoiding to use it due to Google's approach of deprecating features such as manifest version 2

Be prepared, that's going to affect also Vivaldi

korho

Yes, it is going to affect, but certainly not bad as Google chrome. My most used feature is ad blocker for the most disruptive ads, and automatically handling the cookie consents to a minimum. I keep ads on only on those sites where they're not intrusive.

Ref: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/