515174 - Close a Tab to Open later.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

[Jeffrey Powers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

There are times that I want to close a tab, but want it back when I restart Firefox. Bookmarking is good, but it's not in my face - which means that I could forget that the bookmark is there. Add to it a sea of past bookmarks and I might just not find the content. 

I would like to see an option where I can close the tab, but the tab comes back up when I restart Firefox. Of course the regular "x" close should still close a tab like normal. 

Another option would be to have an option called "IRSS" (Internal RSS). I can add content to my IRSS which resides on my system and call up whenever I would like. The IRSS would open a new tab and pull up the link that I want. 



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Well, you can always use the session restore to save your session when you close Firefox, then you could just do the undo close tab to get the tab back.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4199

Comment 3

[Jeffrey Powers]

Yes, but you both miss the point of my suggestion. If I am surfing and see a page I want to come back to, I want to close a specific Tab (not close firefox) now, to get it out of the way. I then want that specific tab (or tabs, depending on which ones I choose) to come back up when I start up FF the next time. 

I don't want to bookmark it because it might not be that important to me. I may have to refer to it for the next couple days. I especially don't want to go into the browser history to try and find it. 

Relying on the Undo tab or "recently closed tab" feature is not a practice I would recommend. It only remembers so many tabs. I open and close many pages in one session. 

-j

Comment 4

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

This is outside the scope of what we would deem core to Firefox. There are ways to do it, even if they aren't perfect. Various extensions have the capability to selectively restore tabs (basically do what you want). Perhaps this is the most relevant: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7661

Otherwise there are 3 other things I might suggest:
* Use bookmarks wisely. Don't just throw the bookmark into the unsorted list. Put it into a folder called "startup" or something. Keep track of when you no longer need it and delete it.
* Add it to your homepage. Seperate URLs with | and all will be loaded at startup (assuming you have Firefox set to show home page).
* Use another window for keeping those tabs you need across sessions. Close all of your other windows before quitting and make that special window last. That way if you restore your session, you'll have that set of tabs.