# Session Browser **URL:** \ **Category:** Toad for Oracle - Beta\ **Created:** [May 11, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/session-browser/61672 "2026-05-11T13:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Klavdij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Klavdij](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Klavdij)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/session-browser/61672/1 "2026-05-11T13:28:50Z")
Please consider having the session browser to open in collapsed view by default (old school). Currently, it always starts expanded, which can be a bit cluttered. Also a bit annoying is that when changing the filter, the first node always opens expanded. (Toad for Oracle 26.2.125.8527) ---
**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/session-browser/61672/2 "2026-05-11T13:40:10Z")
Are you talking about the parallel sessions? Someone just opened a support case about that last week. I have fixed this for next beta, which should be released later today. If not, screen shots would help me understand the problem a little better. ---
**Author:** ![Klavdij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Klavdij](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Klavdij)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/session-browser/61672/3 "2026-05-12T06:51:39Z")
Opening Session Browser (no filter) - all expanded - lots of stuff there ... ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/quest/original/3X/d/f/df593dc9d95afba657f903ddc3c8f9456107a063.png) "Collapse all", then open specific group and apply some filter First (top) group always expands too (NOK) Group I have expanded (second) - remains expanded (OK) Other groups - collapsed (OK) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/quest/original/3X/c/9/c9b1ad7ca5cb6590b093f0b3a110a8a76aa80150.png) ---
**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/session-browser/61672/4 "2026-05-12T18:58:40Z")
Thanks. I see that the behavior changed there with version 2026 R1. I'll fix. ---
**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/session-browser/61672/5 "2026-05-12T21:32:58Z")
Next beta will give you an option for default expansion state. The default setting is shown in the screen shot below (this matches behavior of version 2025 R3). ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/quest/original/3X/2/b/2b8c3a528aaa2ebc8a11db2468240e79cbae754f.png) "Select first child" will expand the first grouping down to a node which does not have children. You might want to leave that checked to prevent the detail area from selecting lots of sessions, if your first group has a lot of sessions. So in this case, if I did not have "Select first child" checked, then the "TOAD.EXE" node would be selected and the detail area would have 7 sessions instead of 1. ---
**Author:** ![Klavdij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Klavdij](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Klavdij)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/session-browser/61672/6 "2026-05-14T14:09:19Z")
OK, looking forward to see this new feature in action ... 👍