Damn Firefox!

[crenn]

Very rare times after closing firefox, shutting down your computer and then later turning it back on and starting up firefox, it 'forgets' your tabs and then you have to remember all of the tabs. Most times you can bring it back by browsing to "about:sessionrestore" but this time it didn't. I'm a tab-a-holic, and losing tabs is really annoying, so I vowed to get them back... and managed to!

In my Firefox Profile, there is sessionstore.js which is there to store your session when you close firefox, but it also backs up this file (sessionstore.bak). But sometimes it's not possible to just rename it to sessionstore.js and suddenly get your tabs back. But I found out there is a way to, open the .bak file in Notepad (Notepad++ is still trying to open it and using a full core) and you'll find the first part of the line like this:


{"windows":[],"selectedWindow":0,"_closedWindows":[{"tabs":[{"entries":[{"url":"http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=6","title":"The Chatterbox - TBCS Community Forums"<...>

Make sure FF is closed and you have a backup of the backup (just in case) before changing it to look like this:


{"windows":[{"tabs":[{"entries":[{"url":"http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=6","title":"The Chatterbox - TBCS Community Forums"<...>

Make sure you have a backup of the backup just in case, and rename the backup to sessionstore.js. Open FF and hopefully you'll see the sessionrestore page.

[Snowman]

only problem I have with firefox and in extension also with chrome is image rendering.. they both fubar some images and it is never consistent.

[Twigsoffury]

In google chrome.


I just click "open previous session" and ta-da!!!

[AmEv]

The only thing that is annoying me currently with FF is, I click one link, realize I clicked the wrong one. I then click the correct link, only for the wrong link to go through.

[crenn]

In google chrome.


I just click "open previous session" and ta-da!!!
Usually in FF, I just open it and it already has my previous session ;P

[Twigsoffury]

Usually in FF, I just open it and it already has my previous session ;P

except when


Very rare times after closing firefox, shutting down your computer and then later turning it back on and starting up firefox, it 'forgets' your tabs and then you have to remember all of the tabs.

[crenn]

I did say usually ;P And it's a rare occurrence.

[NightrainSrt4]

I'm really starting to get fed up with the constant hanging Firefox has had for me since FF4 or FF5 (can't remember exactly, with their rapid fire updates). FF6 it was lessened, but since it updated to FF7 it's right back to doing it again. I can browse with any of the other browsers on my rig and it doesn't happen. I'm about to just switch to one of the others for daily use.

[crenn]

FF8 is rock solid for me, but what I've done is disable loading every tab at start up. Makes it a lot more stable in my opinion.