Internet Explorer 7 Addons - How to save your Internet Explorer session

Posted on March 21, 2007 at 8:13 am

There’s a great list over at gHacks for 10 Internet Explorer add-ons that’ll make your life easier! It’s about time considering the number of add-ons Firefox has!

One though that caught my eye that I could use regularly is the IE Sessions. This is actually pretty cool! How often have you been working late at the office or late at night and someone calls you (like your wife!) and you have to stop right in the middle while doing some deep research, close everything, bookmark all the sites, and email them to yourself before you leave! It’s a pain in the butt if you don’t have a laptop you can just take with you.

But with IE sessions, you can be browsing a bunch of web sites at your office desktop computer and if you have to leave, save the sessions to a file, email that file to yourself and when you get to another computer, simply download the file, open it and all your sessions are back just like you left them!!! That’s great!! I hate using Favorties in situations like that because there is no time to put them into the correct categories, so I basically end up having tons of bookmarks in my list which I have to clean out every so often.

Apparently it also works with IE 6! So even better!

Here’s the link: http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=3343000

Here’s how to use it:

1. Once installed, restart Internet Explorer and go to Tools and you’ll see a new item called IE Sessions.

2. Next on the IE Sessions dialog, you’ll see a list box with any previously saved IE sessions that you can also restore if you like. If you want to save the current IE session (which includes all the other open IE windows including the one you are in now), then click on Save Current.

Give your session a name and that’s it! All your current IE windows will be saved to a file and will show up in the list with the name and date. To get it on another computer, simply click the Import/Export button at the top right. In the new dialog, click Export, save the file, and email it to yourself or copy it to a USB stick!