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You can get Firefox to open all the tabs you last had open when it starts up, this way you can close and open Firefox whenever you want, and you'll always be ri
by MrJohz 3y ago
You can get Firefox to open all the tabs you last had open when it starts up, this way you can close and open Firefox whenever you want, and you'll always be right back where you started.
This doesn't save the page state, so if you were filling in a form, you'll lose that information, but it does mean that wherever you reopen Firefox, you end up pretty much exactly where you were when you closed it.
I guess you'd still need to regularly close and reopen the browser as a whole (I do that at end of the day anyway when I turn my machine off), but it may be more convenient than losing state.
- SilasX 3y ago"Where you were", except for waiting for every page to reload.
- abhinavk 3y agoIt only loads the page when you switch to it.
- josefx 3y agoYou know that this makes it only worse unless you go through all tabs manually after starting to make sure they are actually loaded when you need them? Having to wait half a minute on every tab switch to wait for that gigantic mess of enterprise grade websites served from an ancient box on the other side of the solar system to load is not conductive towards concentrated work.
- unloco 3y agoare you on dial-up?
- eek2121 3y agoI have a 10gb connection and I still see that. Browsers, despite being excellently threaded, are also poorly threaded. Who knew?
- squeaky-clean 3y agoJira takes 10s for certain pages to load for me on a gigabit connection with an M1 Mac. I doubt a dial-up connection could even load a Jira backlog page in under an hour.
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoSame, but I'm not sure if that's because there's too much data or just because Jira is slower than a dead snail.
- cycomanic 3y agoFunny you mention Jira, so you're saying there is no information after a day that requires you to reload?
- squeaky-clean 3y agoJira updates without needing to refresh.
- calamari4065 3y agoModern websites are simply enormous and slow.
- SECProto 3y ago> except for waiting for every page to reload. When I lose firefox (usually when power outage) I just cycle through all the tabs with ctrl+tab, by the time I get back to the first one it has reloaded (and the others do so in the background). It's not a big deal.
- calamari4065 3y agoFirefox has had this feature for over a decade, and it has never worked reliably. It's slightly better now, but still one time in five or ten, it starts up in a blank session or with an error page prompting you to press a button to restore state. I lived through the days where force closing Firefox was the only way to preserve sessions. Things honestly aren't that much better. I'd take a zero percent chance of success over 80. At least then failure is known and predictable instead of just reliable enough to get you to trust it.
- oarfish 3y agoCurious. I've used Firefox for many years and never experienced this problem, not on macOS at least.
- davidgerard 3y agoI have literally never had it fail, in years.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoWorks for me, but i ended up disabling it because of an extremely annoying issue, not sure where it comes from: Opening a second window with CMD+N (mac user just like the sibling) often brings up some random page from my history. This has been so annoying that I disabled the restore feature. Since then I think it hasn't happened again.
- vulcan01 3y agoDo you use an extension to manage your tabs? I haven't experienced this on stock Firefox, but a few years ago I had Tree Style Tab installed and it would occasionally do this. (I now use Sidebery.)
- moritzwarhier 3y agoNo, but thinking a bit about it, it might be I am misremembering and it was on Xubuntu before I switched to mac. Or just fixed. Currently, the problem might be gone, I will try that out. Thanks for your answer! Edit: I also don't have these stability issues, but I did have issues with my suspend mode on that laptop, no matter the os (win/ubuntu)