139551 - History and current browsing state lost after a crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63292

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Joshua Goldberg]

buildID 2002031103

It's difficult to recover what one is working on after a crash.
(my assigned severity refers to the bug.  the feature is less severe.)

a) the bug: history seems not to get committed to disk often enough, so that
after a crash I can lose a whole session's worth of pages I was looking at and
have to find them from scratch.

b) feature suggestion: it would be nice to be able to recover full browser state
(all the pages currently being viewed.)  one version of this is Opera's way,
where when you quit the browser you can save all the windows and come back to
them on restart.  I would also like to be able to actively save in the middle of
work either my whole browser state or one window full of tabs.  Perhaps this
would be a special sort of bookmark.  (I find myself grouping tasks with
multiple webpages into windows of tabs.)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

the feature suggestion is partially implemented (you can bookmark a window-full
of tabs using bookmark groups) and is partially bug 36810.

The bug is a duplicate of "session additions to global history lost on crash"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63292 ***