Opening & managing Sessions

The wall of live Sessions and how to drive it.

What it's for

The Sessions screen is your fleet at a glance: every browser you've opened, each as a live card carrying its Account name, where it sits in a queue, and any cart timer counting down. It's the screen Umbra opens on, and the one you keep up during a drop so nothing times out while you're looking somewhere else.

The Sessions screen: a grid of live session cards with queue badges and cart timers, four status tiles across the top.
Nine open Sessions. The tiles across the top count what's queued, carted, and stuck.shot-sessions · 9 open Sessions — 2 holding carts, 3 in a queue, 1 stopped moving

Open new Sessions

Type a number, press New sessions, and Umbra opens that many at once — one to thirty. These are throwaway Sessions: each gets its own freshly-minted Fingerprint, but no Account and no exit — so they browse on your real connection, not behind a proxy. To open Sessions behind an Account's exit and Fingerprint, launch them from that Account.

What each card tells you

A card is one open Session. It shows only the signals that decide whether it needs you.

Account
A coloured initial and the Account name — not the site's own icon, so a dozen Sessions on one retailer never look alike.
Queue
A Queue 1,240 badge while the Session waits in a virtual queue, or Through once it's in.
Cart timer
A live countdown when the Session is holding a cart — the one thing on the card with a deadline attached.
ETA
A small 12m to front when a queue is advancing, or slip when the position is going backwards.
Lock
A small padlock while the Session is holding something it can't get back — a cart, or a place through the queue. It's the same judgement the close/reload warning uses: a locked card is one you don't refresh.
Trouble
A red badge naming what went wrong — Hold expired, Signed out, a bot-check — with the full sentence on hover. The same signal the Wall shows, so a dying Session never looks calm on the board.

Filter to what matters

Above the tiles sits the safety line — the one-glance answer to the question this product exists for: N of N sessions proxied. When any session is the exception, a chip appears beside it — N on home internet for sessions leaving on your real connection (including throwaway Sessions you opened deliberately), and N disguise degraded for sessions whose Fingerprint overrides didn't fully take. Each chip filters the grid to exactly those sessions; the count and the rows it shows are one derivation, so they can never disagree. The line states facts, not verdicts — it will tell you two sessions are on your home internet, and it will never tell you "all safe".

Four tiles sit below it — Live sessions, In queue, Carts holding, Stopped moving — and each is also a filter. Tap one and the grid narrows to just those Sessions; tap it again to clear. A Search box and a group picker narrow it further. A tile that would filter to nothing stops being a button, and a filter that hides every Session says so, with one control to undo it — so the grid can't strand you looking at an empty screen.

Act on the whole selection

Tick a few cards (or Select N) and a selection bar appears. From it you can open one URL in every selected Session, reload them, or close them — one action across the whole selection. Reload and Close ask first when a selected Session is holding a cart or waiting in a queue, and the confirmation names what's at stake rather than warning by rote.

Watch everything at once — the Wall

Wall tiles every open Session into a live grid — real views, not thumbnails — so you can watch and work many drops side by side. Choose 2, 3 or 4 columns (paged, so cells never shrink to nothing on a big fleet) and sort by Urgency — carts expiring soonest, then through-the-room, then queued, with a dead Session floated to the very top — or keep your Manual drag order. Press number keys 19 to jump a tile full-size, pop a tile out to its own window, or Spread across screens to throw one Session onto each monitor.

On a tile holding a cart, Fill in runs the same cart-prep as Finish — declines add-ons, ticks terms, autofills — and stops at the buy button, which stays yours. The full behaviour is on Address bar & guardians.

Two Sessions, one Account

Opening a second Session on the same Account doesn't hand you a second identity — it hands you another window into the same one.