# Session Feature

The Session Feature (in the File menu) can be used to save the current state of the browser and to restore it later at any time.

The Session Feature is disabled by default because this feature is an advanced feature many users don't need. So before you can use the session feature you have to enable it in the preferences dialog in the General > Advance Features settings panel. Then the Session menu items will be enabled in the File menu.

The menu item File > Session > Save Session as will save the sizes and locations of all browser windows and all the tabs in a file. When loading such a file later, iCab will close the current windows and open the windows and tabs which were stored in the file, so iCab will be exactly in the same state it was before, when the session file was saved.

When setting a check mark for the menu item File > Session > Autosave Session iCab will automatically save the current state when quitting iCab. So the next time iCab is launched, it will automatically restore the windows and tabs which were open when iCab was quit. This will be automatically done, no further action is needed by the user. If you don't want to restore the session when launching iCab, just remove the check mark from this menu item again.

The menu item File > Session > Recording Session is much like a video recorder, it saves all web sites which are visited in a certain window or tab in a web archive file until this feature is switched off again. This web archive file can be opened later, and you can revisit the saved files without the need to be online. All web page data is saved in the web archive and can be loaded from the file. While the recording is active for a window or tab, the tab button is displayed in a different color, or if there's no tab in the window, a small bar in the same color is drawn below the toolbars to indicate that a recording is running. The recording addresses only a certain tab, so even if a recording is active for one tab you can still open other tabs or windows which are not recorded. You can even start multiple recordings for multiple tabs at the same time.