244229 - EnhReq: Ability to save and restore URL/window position/size/etc for all open windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174932

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ian Batterbee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

This is an enhancement request

I would like to suggest the ability for the user to be able to save or restore
the "layout" of their current mozilla instance.

To give an example, I currently have one mailnews window, and 8 navigator
windows open on my desktop. If mozilla crashes, if I have to reboot, or when I
shutdown at the end of the day, I have no way to restore everything back to the
way it was, short of manually cut and pasting all the URLs I had open, and then
opening them again one by one.

I often find myself with multiple windows open, because I will be working on
various different tasks, switching between them frequently.

I liken this to the way windows restores on startup the position and view of
explorer windows that were open when it shutdown.

This could be a configurable checbox item - [x] restore/reopen browser windows
on startup.

Mozilla would presumably need to store at least the following items for each
window: 
postion on the desktop
size of window
type of window (eg, mailnews, navigator, composer, etc)

for navigator windows, it would also need to store at least the URL, and the
viewport offset

There would probably need to be some sort of bypass mechanism, eg, holding down
shift, to cover for the possibility that opening a particular URL causes mozilla
to crash.

If this information was saved in the user preference config file, and that file
was on a shared location, then it would be possible to save the layout, close
down, go home, open up mozilla, and all the windows 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174932 ***