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I lose all tabs occasionally. Browsers aren't perfect, it does happen after a weird crash, or something. It's exceedingly rare, like maybe twice a year. With t

I lose all tabs occasionally. Browsers aren't perfect, it does happen after a weird crash, or something. It's exceedingly rare, like maybe twice a year. With that said, I've always considered tabs to be volatile state. Browsers make their best effort to e.g. restore the previous session after a crash, but if you want non-volatile browser state, you should use bookmarks.

pleasecalllater 7y ago
True. However, this time they are closed because the world changed (due to someone ignoring a bug and a certificate expiration date). Btw, I haven't got any Fx crash for the last 3 or 4 years. I hope an ignorant programmer/manager won't try removing my bookmarks because they lead to a page with an expired certificate.
Faark 7y ago
Eh, for me only that often if you include stuff caused by a dumb user (aka me). And even then I always got them back one way or another. Usually from %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile]\sessionstore-backups (thankfully there's usually a recent copy, since I'm on a test version) or last resort from backups.
zrobotics 7y ago
Except I specifically use an extension to ensure tab state isn't volatile (Tab Session Manager, backed up with export tabs urls & a custom script), since I don't want to bookmark 35 pages for a current project, I just want to save them to a named session and have everything avaliable when I return to the project. I agree that tabs are volatile, although I really wish they weren't. I'm having flashbacks to the quantum switch and having to change most of my extensions. I'd consider switching, but I really don't care for the chromium monoculture that's developing.
anonymousab 7y ago
It's not just tabs, but for many users the containers themselves are gone - as well as their cookies and other associated assumed-to-be-non-ephemeral state.
- jzl 7y ago
  Yep. I just got hit by the bug. Enabled studies, got the fix, but all my configured containers are gone. NOT happy right now.

pleasecalllater 7y ago

True. However, this time they are closed because the world changed (due to someone ignoring a bug and a certificate expiration date). Btw, I haven't got any Fx crash for the last 3 or 4 years. I hope an ignorant programmer/manager won't try removing my bookmarks because they lead to a page with an expired certificate.

Faark 7y ago

Eh, for me only that often if you include stuff caused by a dumb user (aka me). And even then I always got them back one way or another. Usually from %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile]\sessionstore-backups (thankfully there's usually a recent copy, since I'm on a test version) or last resort from backups.

zrobotics 7y ago

Except I specifically use an extension to ensure tab state isn't volatile (Tab Session Manager, backed up with export tabs urls & a custom script), since I don't want to bookmark 35 pages for a current project, I just want to save them to a named session and have everything avaliable when I return to the project. I agree that tabs are volatile, although I really wish they weren't. I'm having flashbacks to the quantum switch and having to change most of my extensions. I'd consider switching, but I really don't care for the chromium monoculture that's developing.

anonymousab 7y ago

It's not just tabs, but for many users the containers themselves are gone - as well as their cookies and other associated assumed-to-be-non-ephemeral state.

jzl 7y ago
Yep. I just got hit by the bug. Enabled studies, got the fix, but all my configured containers are gone. NOT happy right now.