load-session to have an option to refresh the pages

[zander]

I have a session that has pages such as https://news.ycombinator.com/ and https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php

When I use session-load news some of the sites it has show the proper front-page, while others show an outdated page.

It would be nice to be able to use 'session-load' as a way to open a bunch of websites, to the current state. I think that means there needs to be another argument that forces such a reload of tabs if the user passes that argument.

Bonus points for only doing the reload when the tab first gains focus (sort of lazy initialization).

Thinking out loud here: maybe the session-save command would benefit from a only-urls option which would accomplish the same effect.

[toofar]

Is your goal here restoring page state with navigation history and such and pinned tabs or my like loading a bunch of bookmarks at once fresh into a new window?

[zander]

my goal is to load a bunch of pre-defined URLs. Preferably in the current window.

[toofar]

#3855 adds tags to bookmarks and then you could presumably load all bookmarks with a tag, so that might be a better option in the future.
Until that gets merged you might be better served by writing a userscript (there are some examples in the misc/userscripts/ folder) to send open commands to the fifo.