[🐛 Bug]: Grid Session View is closed when enough new Sessions are started

[lquartier-work]

Description

Hello,
we are encountering a small Problem with the Live Session View in the Grid UI.
The Problem seems to be with the paging of the Session List - When you open the Live Session View, and then Enough Sessions are opened to move the Currently viewed Session to the next page, the Live Session View is closed.
Previously we would Print out the Session ID to search for it in the UI, so then that wouldn't happen as the Session would be the only one in the List.
But now that we can open the Session View directly with a Link, we noticed this behaviour.

Reproducible Code

Open a Remote Session in the Grid
Open the Live Session View
Open 10-15 more Sessions concurrently

[selenium-ci]

@lquartier-work, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[ArpitChoubey]

Thanks @lquartier-work for reporting this and for the clear repro steps 🙌

It looks like the issue happens because the session list pagination refreshes whenever new sessions are added. Since the Live Session View is tied to the row in the current page, when that row shifts to the next page, the UI no longer finds it and the view closes.

A few thoughts / suggestions:

Session Pinning
Instead of binding the Live Session View to the grid’s pagination state, it could be pinned directly to the session ID. That way, even if the session moves to another page, the Live Session View would remain open until explicitly closed.

Sticky Live Session Component
Another option could be to render the Live Session View as an overlay (or a modal) independent of the grid table, so pagination changes don’t impact it.

Temporary Workaround
As you mentioned, searching by session ID works around the problem. Alternatively, reducing the session list refresh interval (if possible) might reduce how often this gets triggered.

Next Step
If maintainers agree, I’d be happy to help test a fix once the binding is adjusted to session ID rather than the current grid row.

This is a really good catch 👍 — it makes sense that this bug would only surface once opening sessions directly by link became possible.

[cgoldberg]

@ArpitChoubey based on your 3 recent comments to issues, I have to ask...

Are these the results of long careful investigations into open issues, or just AI generated slop?