425376 - Please (a) allow saving of restored pages to a bookmarks folder (b) allow save to bookmarks on exit

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

[Keith Bissett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

(a) When Firefox crashes and you open it again you are given the option to restore all the pages that were open at the time of the crash.  It would be very useful for that dialog to also offer to instead bookmark the crashed pages under an appropriately titled bookmarks folder ("Restore", maybe?).  If a particular webpage is causing Firefox to crash, this would enable you to isolate it.  Also, if you only want to keep a few of the pages you had open you wouldn't have to open all of them only to close most again.

(b) It would similarly be really handy to have the option on Exiting to bookmark all currently open pages to an appropriately titled bookmarks folder ("OnExit", maybe?).

P.S.  I'm not sure if this is one request or two.  I suspect it's the same functionality, but please separate it if it's really two requests.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In most cases Firefox won't restore a crashed page so this can help to isolate the crashing page (in a way). In most cases pages only crash in test builds (hopefully) and testers mostly have no problems with doing extra efforts to find the cause. Crashes in releases are mostly caused by add-ons or plug-ins in combination with other factors.
The option to bookmark all tabs is already present on the tab's context-menu.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I think the most valuable thing people can do is to allow Firefox to send the crash report. Firefox 3 will have a new system, Breakpad: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The only part that would be Bookmarks would be providing an API to bookmark a bunch of URIs, which exists, so, Session Restore.

Comment 4

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

(a) Duplicate of Bug 407117?

(b) see Comment 1

Comment 6

[Keith Bissett]

"Bookmark all tabs" doesn't do the job of #b for two reasons:

(1) It doesn't bookmark open windows.  If you have half a dozen windows open with half a dozen pages on each (as I often do) and you want to shut down without losing state it's a right pain.
(2) The option to save state isn't offered in the exit dialogue.

(It would be nice to have #1 independently, too).

re: (a) the suggestion is more detailed than 407117 in that it specifies a particular solution - bookmarking to a folder.  However, I've posted that in a comment under 407117 now, so it probably doesn't need to be continued here.

Comment 7

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

If you do File -> Exit, Firefox asks you if you want to save your session. So you can save your session even if you have two windows each with only one tab.

Furthermore remember that if you bookmark a link you are not saving its session. Stupid example: if you have filled a textarea in that page, restoring the session the textaerea should be filled again (if no JS or similar interferes).

Comment 8

[Simon Bünzli]

Keith: Please don't file several issues as the same bug, as it makes dealing with them individually much harder:

(a) is indeed tracked by bug 407117 of which half of this bug is a duplicate.

(b) is no Session Restore related request at all and rather belongs to Firefox:General. A bug focusing on (b) alone will stand a better chance of success (even though IMO it's extension fodder and thus WONTFIX).

Closing this bug as INVALID and leaving it to Keith to file a new bug for (b) alone should he see value in that functionality for a few millions of our users.

Comment 9

[Keith Bissett]

Lucas Malor:   "If you do File -> Exit, Firefox asks you if you want to save your session."

Mine doesn't.  I'm glad to hear it's a feature of the development version.

Simon Bünzli: "Closing this bug as INVALID and leaving it to Keith to file a new bug for (b)
alone should he see value in that functionality for a few millions of our
users.".

Done, thanks.