How to loose your Firefox tabs
Submitted by dag on Wed, 2009/01/21 - 22:51
You think Firefox restores your tabs when you close and open it (with Tab Mix Plus or the session saver). Don't bet on it, try the following sequence:
- Open the Download window
- Open a few tabs
- Close the main firefox windows
- Open a new firefox instance (only the homepage is opened)
You have now lost all your tabs. If those contained any resident information or things you wanted to read/follow up they've been lost :-/
So if you didn't know the Download page was still open somewhere, starting a new firefox will loose your collection of tabs.
*sigh*
So how can one recover ? If you are lucky, you can find a backup file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXXXX.default/sessionstore.bak that you can rename back to sessionstore.js and hopefully that one is not too old either.
Yep, not ideal, but that's
Yep, not ideal, but that's why I just use Ctrl+Q to quit. That makes sure it closes all windows, including the download manager.
Ctrl+Q works out of the box on Linux and there's an extension I wrote for Windows Firefox that adds Ctrl+Q as a shortcut for quit.
Get rid of the pesky download window
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26
slight difference...
There is a difference. When i close multiple tabs, firefox asks me for confirmation *unless this is the last window open*.
So when I see the confirmation, then I know that there is another firefox window open somewhere.
I just tested this with the download window, same result.
So checking Preferences - tabs - Warn me when closing multiple tabs, might end your frustration.
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