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This is (bugs withstanding) what Firefox does if you choose to"Restore previous session" int the General/Startup section of about:preferences . This feature is

This is (bugs withstanding) what Firefox does if you choose to"Restore previous session" int the General/Startup section of about:preferences . This feature is provided by a Gecko component called the the session store (https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/sessionstore https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone...).

qbasic_forever 5y ago
Yeah I've been relying on this for about a year and have been really impressed. It's the first restore browser session I've ever used that just works. I never get "oops corrupted session, start over!" errors, etc like I used to get with chrome. Everything just fires back up with all the tabs, all the extensions, even all the different browser windows I had before. And it handles ungraceful shutdowns/restarts really well (which sadly are far, far too common on this early generation Ryzen APU laptop and the current mainline Linux kernel :( ).
- tux1968 5y ago
  What makes it especially nice is that it doesn't reaload all the tabs at restart. Rather it waits until you switch to an old tab before it restores its state. This means you start up much faster and you're not consuming gobs of resources either.
  - qbasic_forever 5y ago
    Exactly! Yeah I have dozens of tabs open and never fear restarting the session. Hats off to the dev that implemented it--it's a really well thought out and implemented feature.
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the_pwner224 5y ago
Thanks, that seems really useful. I sometimes need to restart my computer but don't want to lose all my Firefox windows and tabs, so I would force kill Firefox and have it restore the 'crashed' session after rebooting. That did work very well, but this is a much cleaner solution.
- jakub_g 5y ago
  BTW if you have N windows and you want to quit Firefox without closing any of the windows: File > Exit (ctrl-shift-q)
MaxBarraclough 5y ago
Would be great if the bookmark all tabs feature could capture state in that way.

qbasic_forever 5y ago

Yeah I've been relying on this for about a year and have been really impressed. It's the first restore browser session I've ever used that just works. I never get "oops corrupted session, start over!" errors, etc like I used to get with chrome. Everything just fires back up with all the tabs, all the extensions, even all the different browser windows I had before. And it handles ungraceful shutdowns/restarts really well (which sadly are far, far too common on this early generation Ryzen APU laptop and the current mainline Linux kernel :( ).

tux1968 5y ago
What makes it especially nice is that it doesn't reaload all the tabs at restart. Rather it waits until you switch to an old tab before it restores its state. This means you start up much faster and you're not consuming gobs of resources either.
- qbasic_forever 5y ago
  Exactly! Yeah I have dozens of tabs open and never fear restarting the session. Hats off to the dev that implemented it--it's a really well thought out and implemented feature.

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the_pwner224 5y ago

Thanks, that seems really useful. I sometimes need to restart my computer but don't want to lose all my Firefox windows and tabs, so I would force kill Firefox and have it restore the 'crashed' session after rebooting. That did work very well, but this is a much cleaner solution.

jakub_g 5y ago
BTW if you have N windows and you want to quit Firefox without closing any of the windows: File > Exit (ctrl-shift-q)

MaxBarraclough 5y ago

Would be great if the bookmark all tabs feature could capture state in that way.