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

[rhialto.livejournal.com]

With so many tabs, did you notice that you can group your tabs in groups? (In the drop-down menu with the tabs, there is a new option Tab Groups).
In addition to this, I am now trying the extension "TabGroups manager", which allows those groups to be visualised by (yet another level of) tabs. It can also unload groups from memory, to make Firefox use less memory. They will be reloaded when you switch back to them.
I also use "BarTab lite" so that Firefox won't try to load all tabs at once.