Internet Explorer Sessions

December 2nd, 2008

Working on multiple computers or on several days on one computer makes the use of sessions useful. The IE Sessions extensions IE Sessions (via IESessions: save and retrieve your sessions on IE ) adds that capability to Microsoft IE. It is always up to the software developer what a session truly consists of, in this case it means that all open urls and windows will be saved with the ability to open them again at a later time.

Not included are the browsing history or session cookies which is a bit unfortunate as it could mean to log into several of the websites again if they require that. The extension becomes available in the Tools menu of IE after installation where the sessions can be stored or loaded.

The IE sessions are stored in the program directory by default. The extension provides the option to store them at the Amazon S3 Service instead which costs $0.150 per GB but has the advantage that the sessions are available online and can therefor be loaded from any computer with Internet connection.

Another option would be to send the session per email or upload it manually to the Internet to access it from a second computer.

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One interesting aspect of the session manager for IE is the ability to manage the stored urls of each session. Single urls can be loaded in the browser. It is also possible to delete urls from the session.

IE Sessions supports IE 6 or on Windows XP or Windows 2000. Windows Vista users should read the information posted on the website about Vista compatibility first before they install the extension.

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