Closed Bug 181646 Opened 22 years ago Closed 20 years ago

AutoResume feature: Auto-magic use of history for use after a crash

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: History, enhancement)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
History
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152147
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: bzmoz, Assigned: sfraser_bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021122 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021122 Chimera/0.6+

It would be nice for Chimera to save the URLs of each website currently open,
either in tabs, or separate windows, in a special cache. If a crash occurs, the
user could simply restart Chimera, and it will start loading the URLs they were
previously at before the crash interrupted their browsing.

Again, it would only load the pages currently open in Chimera, not older ones.

This would obviously require some sort of toggle, but I feel it would not only
assist in the bug finding process, but it would be invaluable to Mac users as well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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What will happen if one the site crashes each time, you'll get into an infinite
loop. It must be manual choice, not automatic.
See Bug 152147 and Bug 179673
If a loop occurs, then a key-combo at Chimera's startup could ignore the pref.
Say holding down "M-O-Z" or something. If that would be difficult/impossible to
implement, then a popup box could ask, again at startup, if the user wants to
resume a saved-state.

This would be more appropriate implemented and tested using Mozilla first rather
than Chimera.
I've seen requests for this on the mailing list, since OW has it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → Future
I guess the best user-interface for that is that Camino opens a dialog when it
is launched after a crash which asks whether the last open windows/tabs should
be reopenend, perhaps along with a list of the urls.
An Aqua alert could drop from the main window that asks:

"Camino detected a crash. Would you like to go back to the page(s) you were
visiting before the crash? (Y)es / (N)o?"

Of course, better wording would probably be necessary... but nevertheless, that
feature would be hella.
Sounds like a welcome extra for all Camino users. Crasehs happen to all of us
sometime?
I'm not sure whether the developers of camino look at the votings for RFEs but I
suggest that everyone who wants this feature should simply vote for it. I just
did :-).

Besides that the crash-recoverability should also be kernel-panic resistant. I'm
not sure when the history is saved to disk but along with that the information
of open pages should be saved as well (the alternative would've been to recover
the information before Camino actually crashes but that wouldn't help against
hard system crashes).
I would most definitely use this feature were it available, and I would
prefer that each saved and re-opened window were resurrected with its
history, so that the back button worked. In fact this should be an option
on regular starts: start from "as you were".
I'm marking this bug as a duplicated of bug 152147 as the functionality of both
request are the same. No need for that, cleaning up. Session state saving is
defenitly something that would be cool.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152147 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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