I am one for having LOTS of browser instances open at once. I might be in the midst of some kind of research that I have to set aside while moving to some other task, but that I want to come back to later in the day. I would like to be able to mark a browser session as protected, which would prevent the browser screen from being closed or re-used (yes, I already have the "re-use browser sessions for shortcuts" advanced option turned off).
My analogy is like protecting selected pictures on a digital camera (any protected images can not be deleted until protection is turned off). I haven't thought deeply about some of the details...besides preventing re-use by shortcuts (for those who have that feature enabled), and preventing "x-ing out", would protection do more? Would it prevent script elements on the page from changing the screen (i.e., what happens if I click a link?)? Maybe it could cause those to spawn a new browser session.
A really nice refinement of this feature would be to remember the URL even upon a re-boot, and resume the browser session (where possible, it will obviously fail when the session is stateful).
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