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

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Hmm. There's something wrong with my default start page then, because IT'S NOT ON THERE!

The only thing that's on my default start page other than the Google search bar is You're not on the latest version of Firefox. Upgrade today to get the best of the Web! And then I click on the "upgrade" link to be told that I do have the latest version...

I'd better take it up with Firefox support, then :X

[mjl]

That's the old default start page. You can get the new start page by clicking the "restore to default" button there (the new page is basically the same Google search bar with Firefox bits, but it's now local - at about:home - rather than online, which allows them to add stuff like "restore your session" to it...)