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navorite / sessionic

A web extension to save, manage and restore sessions, windows and tabs.
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Enhancement: A way to view local session files #128

Closed metapea closed 6 months ago

metapea commented 6 months ago

Describe the problem

There a way to rename a local session file (in \User Data\Default\Sessions) and use chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz to reopen the past session after starting the browser again.

Describe the proposed solution

A. Give us a way view to view local sessions files and auto-rename the older sessions file from yesterday (to the newer session filename) and move to backup, delete, or change the filename of the newer session, let the user manually put chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz and click on the prompt to reopen the session, just add the instructions. For more info, there are instructions from others on who to do this: 1 2. Having a simplified way of doing this on the browser would be nice.

Alternatives considered

B: Similar to A, have a way to auto-rename, auto-_chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz_, and auto-click for prompt or let the user manually click on it. I think it might be similar to aljgom's chrome_sessions but there's no extension for that. C. Use https://github.com/lemnos/chrome-session-dump, let the user choose the local session file, extract the URLs and import them to sessionic or just show the user raw URLs from the extracted session to view or copy.

Importance

Would make my life easier (2)

navorite commented 6 months ago

Extensions cannot have permission to access the user filesystem or modify it, so this feature cannot be implemented.