Firefox and its stupid big version numbers.

[baratron]

Firefox 6.0 is pissing me off because it seems to have lost my old default setting of "please save all my tabs when I quit Firefox" - and I can't even find that setting any more in the Preferences! I generally work with a ridiculous number of windows and tabs on the screen, often more than 50 tabs open at once. Losing my entire session when I have to close Firefox for some reason such as Flash needing to update again or yet another stupid Microsoft Office update is just TOO MUCH.

Anyone know how to fix this? I'm sure one of you does :)

I also think it's stupid the way Firefox is now updating the big number every couple of weeks - going from 4.0 to 5.0 to 6.0 instead of 4.0 to 4.1 to 4.2, but that's another rant in itself, and I don't pretend to be savvy in the ways of software numbering.

An actual post with CONTENT will follow tomorrow, when I will have hopefully recovered from my minor cold-let and no longer have a brain full of snot ;)

Comments

[pir.livejournal.com]

I use the Session Manager extension because it gives more options on how to save/restore sessions than the built in stuff and keeps more history.

[lovingboth]

I used to use this one, but there were two problems.

Every so often, it failed to save a session properly and lost it. My wild guess is that the crash / exit happens while it's in the middle of saving the current info.

On restore, it tried loading everything at once = unusable until everything had. Which, with lots of tabs, could be ages. That might have improved now that Firefox doesn't do that.

[pir.livejournal.com]

I've never seen it fail to save a session. I've failed back to older saved sessions when something has gone very wrong (usually a tab that is crashing the browser) though.

Loading everything at once has never bothered me.