Re: Firefox 104 on Sid unusable because it blanks open tabs after a few minutes
On Mittwoch, 7. September 2022 16:23:28 -04 Alex King wrote:
> A couple of FF Extensions you might benefit from:
>
> Auto Tab Discard: although it does the opposite of what you want,
> (I.e. the purpose is to discard or "unload" tabs,) it gives a UI into
> the settings for when tabs are discarded. (Although I'm on FF
> 91.13.0esr, and I don't know if it works on FF 104.)
>
> Textarea Cache: Allows to save automatically the content in a text
> input field. Great for retrieving text you wrote into a website, e.g.
> if the submission failed for some reason. Not sure if it stores text
> from text input fields on discarded pages or not...
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
Dear Alex,
definitely I'm going to try both extensions and then report back.
Will try Textarea Cache first and Auto Tab Discard independently next.
Thank you!
de Eike
>
> On 8/09/22 05:10, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > Subject:
> > Firefox 104 on Sid unusable because it blanks open tabs after a few
> > minutes From:
> > Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ <zp6cge@gmx.net>
> > Date:
> > 8/09/22, 04:16
> >
> > To:
> > debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >
> >
> > I admit that I usually have ~ 70 tabs open.
> > FF does not blank all, just most of them.
> > Then I have to reload the pages and enter all information again if
> > the pages contain forms like snail-mail tracking, tracking of
> > packages, tracking of processes with the local communications state
> > agency, following geomagnetic storms, RF-Propagation, blogs etc
> > etc.
> >
> > My time is too valuable to waste it reloading and reloading web
> > pages
> > again and again.
> > It happens with dynamic pages and with static pages. There is no
> > consistency at all.
> >
> > I looked into the FF settings for a setup - but no - there is
> > nothing
> > about this behaviour.
> >
> > OK, so which browser will I now use instead of Firefox?
> >
> > have a nice day
> > Eike
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Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP6CGE
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