I discovered something in FireFox

[aimeeandbeatles]

Okay, so i have my FF set so it goes to homepage. But sometimes, I want the pages saved from last session. Like if I have to reboot or something. So, instead of using an addon or switching the startup page thingy, I go to the task manager and kill the process, then when I re-opened FF it asks if I want to restore the session.

I discoevred this by accident when my computer started randomly rebooting (dumb updates) and I had to kill the process to get it to shut down.

I'm not too sure how safe it is, I never had any problems with it, use at own risk. I backup my bookmarks with Foxmarks, and sync frequently, so I don't lose my bookmarks.

 

[Cutlass]

You can get the same effect by leaving firefox running when you shut down the computer

 

[Zelig]

Yeah, they ripped the feature from Opera.

In Opera, you can properly save/load/manage multiple sessions, and doubtlessly, there's an extension for FF to do the same.

 

[Aramazd]

Just go to options, then main, and select "show my windows and tabs from last time" and there you go.

 

[Quintillus]

Yeah, they ripped the feature from Opera.

In Opera, you can properly save/load/manage multiple sessions, and doubtlessly, there's an extension for FF to do the same.

Opera has a lot of great features like that - it's been my primary browser for more than a year now. You can set it to either go to a blank page, go to your homepage, restore from last time, restore from a saved session, or ask which of the above to do when it starts. Firefox has only the first three options. But this is pretty far down on the list of why to use Opera, or Firefox for that matter.

I've never had any problems resulting from terminating a browser's process. So long as you don't terminate it while it's downloading something - thus causing you to lose the download - it shouldn't cause any problems.

 

[GenMarshall]

Nothing new to me.

 

[Mise]

You don't need to do all that... there's an option for it in standard out-of-the-box firefox.

Do what Abgar said!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Just go to options, then main, and select "show my windows and tabs from last time" and there you go.

But I have homepage and don't want to switch every time.

 

[Maniacal]

People use home pages still?

I mean, i guess on Firefox I have google as my home page since it's my secondary browser and I don't always need to keep tabs up of the sites I go to. I don't even know if I have a home page in Opera.

 

[Mise]

Keeping your tabs open is like having several homepages. I myself have 5, and they're open all the time: iGoogle, Gmail, my ISP email, CFC and Facebook.

 

[Cutlass]

Here's another neat trick:



23 bookmarks on 1 line with a lot of left over room. If you know the symbol, delete the name. And if you put the name in the description area, then when you hold the mouse over the bookmark, you see the name.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I used to have session saver for FF2 to do what the OP has described, but now FF3 has the option to restore your tabs right out of the box.

 

[LucyDuke]

Just go to options, then main, and select "show my windows and tabs from last time" and there you go.

What Abgar said. You can keep the far-left tab locked on your homepage, if you like, I use the Tab Mix Plus extension. It's a great one.

I'm jealous of all you boogers that can use Opera. For some reason any machine I install it on just chokes up on it. I really like the features, but the machines choke. Although I think Firefox with a bunch of extensions may be cooler.

 

[Zebra 9]

Opera won't access the web on my computer same as safari. I love FF and every once in a while it asks if I want to save my current tabs for next time no clue why it asks, and the only reason I don't use the feature is because most of the sites I use don't have a remember me checkbox.

 

[Jerrymander]

You can set it to either go to a blank page, go to your homepage, restore from last time, restore from a saved session, or ask which of the above to do when it starts. Firefox has only the first three options.

False statement, as posted in the thread earlier. AddOns also enhance the ability of FireFox more than Opera, granting it increased flexibility and features, making Opera obsolete.

 

[Zelig]

False statement, as posted in the thread earlier. AddOns also enhance the ability of FireFox more than Opera, granting it increased flexibility and features, making Opera obsolete.

How do you customize keyboard shortcut keys with Firefox?

And Opera is faster, no extension to do that for Firefox.

 

[Jerrymander]

How do you customize keyboard shortcut keys with Firefox?

And Opera is faster, no extension to do that for Firefox.

I honestly don't know, I use SeaMonkey primarily (blame Linux for that). Opera also has mouse gestures and a bunch of other features I find enjoyable, like resuming broken downloads, but I didn't like the browser.

The latter statement is true. The former statement reeks of ambiguity. I don't think there are extreme differences with regards toward the speed at which browsers display web pages. There is, however, a difference in memory use, which is why I use SeaMonkey. The fact that nearly every test has proven that a different browser of the top 4 was "faster" means that there is probably no difference in the speed at which browsers display web pages. Were other factors taken into account? Quality of connection? Number of users? Client end and server end loads?

I used to use a dated machine, and I noticed a large performance gap between Firefox 2 and Opera 8.5, FireFox opening faster and using less memory. I failed to notice a difference in the speed at which pages were displayed, however. I haven't used FireFox 3 and Opera 9.0 or 9.5 yet, so I have no input on those browsers.

I have also not noticed the community of Extensions for Opera. Unless I've missed something right under my nose?

Opera's not obsolete, but it will be unless they pull an Apple and release the iOpera, or some equivalent.

 

[Mise]

There are too many extensions in FF... It's hard to decide what the good ones are. Also, because there is so much competition, programmers tend to overengineer the solution, and add too many options to their extensions. For example, the only extension I really want is one that will make the tabs appear at the bottom (next to the taskbar, conforming with Windows) instead of the top (near bookmarks that have the same icons and names as the tabs they open!!!! stupid design). But in order to do that in FF3, I had to download TabMixPlus or w/e it was, which had an insane number of options and features that I will never use. I don't doubt that this makes FF run much slower (especially given that it's a dev release, in order to keep up with 3.01, even though I'm sure the old release for 3.0 would have worked just fine, if FF would just give it a go!).

 

[Zelig]

The latter statement is true. The former statement reeks of ambiguity. I don't think there are extreme differences with regards toward the speed at which browsers display web pages. There is, however, a difference in memory use, which is why I use SeaMonkey. The fact that nearly every test has proven that a different browser of the top 4 was "faster" means that there is probably no difference in the speed at which browsers display web pages. Were other factors taken into account? Quality of connection? Number of users? Client end and server end loads?

I used to use a dated machine, and I noticed a large performance gap between Firefox 2 and Opera 8.5, FireFox opening faster and using less memory. I failed to notice a difference in the speed at which pages were displayed, however. I haven't used FireFox 3 and Opera 9.0 or 9.5 yet, so I have no input on those browsers.

I have also not noticed the community of Extensions for Opera. Unless I've missed something right under my nose?

Opera's not obsolete, but it will be unless they pull an Apple and release the iOpera, or some equivalent.

It's not that ambiguous, in general, Firefox 3 shows lower memory use, almost every other test shows Opera being faster.

Opera 9 was released over 2 years ago, there are huge differences between the browser then, and now. At the time Opera 9 was released, the latest version of Firefox was on version 1.5.

There are some things approaching extensions in Opera, but I find them unnecessary for the most part, the browser does everything I need out of the box.

Not really sure what you're referring to in iOpera...

 

[damunzy]

Since Firefox (ff) 3.0 it has done that by default. I like the way that Tab Mix Plus (TMP) does sessions better than the built in session manager so I use it.

I like ff better than Opera because of Ad Block Plus (ABP). I am sure there is something available for Opera but I am too lazy to look for it since I am very satisfied with ff 3.x.

I do however use Opera for my more Private web browsing. I like the following two options: 1) Save to Download Folder in the right-click and 2) Tools > Delete Private Data.

My gotta have plugins:
FireGestures (used to be Mouse Gestures but they didn't update for 3.x)
Forecastfox (weather)
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer (never lose your bookmarks - access them from the web on a different computer with ff loaded)
FoxyTunes (controls a slew of media players from within the browser)
ImageTweak (Allows zooming of images and Flash video/games)
pageaddict (tells me where I have been online and for how much time)
Tab Mix Plus (this is one of my favorites - allows you to customize the heck out of your tabs ['cept for colors, need a different plugin for that ])

Less needed:
Sage (RSS reader - Firefox has one built in but this has more features - not real big on RSS)

Missing for ff 3.x:
Paste-and-go (only works for 2.x)

Opera has a lot of this stuff built in and Opera is a smaller size download and install. All I am going to say about that.

And here is my top 11 sites today according to pageaddict:
Site Time % Total Tags
spreadsheets.google.com 57 minutes 4.6%
mail.google.com 34 minutes 2.7%
jobview.monster.com 24 minutes 2%
kdice.com 23 minutes 1.8%
forums.virtualbox.org 22 minutes 1.8%
seeker.dice.com 21 minutes 1.7%
my.metrofax.com 17 minutes 1.3%
maps.google.com 16 minutes 1.3%
jobs.careerbuilder.com 16 minutes 1.3%
forums.civfanatics.com 13 minutes 1%
docs.google.com 9 minutes 0.7%

Looks pretty accurate to me - I have spent the majority of my time online today job searching. Google docs has my resumes and cover letters and monster.com and dice.com are where I spent the most of the time. Further down the list is careerbuilder.com. kdice.com for a little risk-like fun, metrofax to fax stuff to people, google maps to see how far jobs are, and of course forums.civfanatics.com. forums.virtualbox.org because I have been using VirtualBox a lot lately- been trying to keep up my skills with different OSes.