310261 - Restore open pages after crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 328159

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Beland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Galeon/1.3.21
Build Identifier: firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4 (RPM)

Given how complicated web browsers are and the wide variety of input
they have to handle, even the best of them (including Firefox)
sometimes crash.  They are also sometimes killed by forces beyond
their control - a laptop battery konks out, another application horks
the X server and the whole thing crashes or has to be killed, a power
cord is tripped over, a power button is accidentally leaned
on....there are any number of minor computing tragedies that can cause
the untimely demise of a browser.

This is particularly annoying if you, like me, will at any given time
have a large number of tabs or windows open which contain state
related to your current or future tasks.

One of the best-ever features of Galeon is that upon startup after a
crash or unclean shutdown, it offers the user the chance to restore
their previous session (either by opening the pages automatically, or
by creating a new folder of bookmarks).  It does this by recording
open pages in a private file.  When the browser exits normally, the
file is deleted or emptied.  The browser doesn't (and can't) clear the
file when it crashes or is killed.  So if the file exists on startup,
Galeon knows it died unexpectedly, and can restore its page-reading
state more or less as it was before the interruption.

Everyone deserves a web browser with this feature.  It has saved me
annoyance and consternation and data loss sooo many times.  I'm hoping
to change to Firefox from Galeon, since it's now the preferred open
source browser for Fedora and in many other contexts.  So far, I'm
just waiting for this handy feature to make the switch.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159357 ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

verified

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 324379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't think this is a dup of bug 159357.  That's about a pref regarding what happens when you reopen Firefox after closing it.  This is about crash recovery and doesn't even need to be a pref.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 321403 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Wladimir]

>------- Comment #2 from [e-mail]  2005-12-29 16:16 PST -------
>Reporter asks to implement session saving, which would allow restoring of a
>crashed session.
>
>Попробуйте установить расширение SessionSaver, в нем реализована эта
>функциональность. Возможно, эта фича будет добавлена в одной из следующих
>версий.
>


Да-да!
1. Спасибо хлопцы :) .. установил SessionSaver, всё классно работает.. и главное удобно.
Сча буду переходить с Оперы на ваш Firefox у него хоть глюков меньше, чем в Опере..
Но и неудобств осталось ещё немало.. по сравнению с ней.
Обязательно сделайте поумолчанию SessionSaver в след версии Firefox и сделайте отладку приложения под него.. а то последнее окно невозможно закрыть (сделайте дополнительный крест, если открыто одна вкладка в программе)

2. + опцию, при выходе из программы подтверждение закрытия программы, даже если открыта одна вкладка., оч удобно, если вдруг случано промазал мышью..


3. Я земетил, что программа может открываться в нескольких копиях..
и чтобы не возникало конфликта с SessionSaver, что сохранять..
рекоммендую сделать автовыбор и названия Сессий.. Обычно я использую один ряд вкладок - для форумов - другой для поиска сайтов, 3-й для почты.

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, as it turned out in the bug that enabled it, it did need to be a pref, though only for the sake of tinderboxen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 328159 ***