Re: Firefox

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 17:18:34 (-0000), Greg wrote:
> On 2025-02-10, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am against suggestions to *kill* applications as well, unless it is 
> > the last resort measure. It increases chance to lost data stored in 
> > browser profile (list of opened tabs, passwords, etc.).
> 
> If Firefox is killed or crashes I believe you get the 'Restore Session'
> page instead of the home page when you restart it (i.e. exactly the
> option to retrieve your open tabs at the moment of the kill or crash).

Yes, that is my daily experience, though I almost always start FF
with a script that opens the local wunderground 10-day forecast.
I close that before pressing Restore.

If I 'lose control' of FF, which is rare, then it gets killed with
pkill -SIGKILL (9). OTOH, at the end of the day, I synchronise my
INBOX (quitting mutt will do that), check /tmp/ for any files that
might be useful to preserve in ~/temp/, then I zap fvwm and touch
the power button. (First zapping fvwm avoids occasionally having to
wait for a 90-second timeout to expire.)

On Mon 10 Feb 2025 at 15:02:02 (-0000), Greg wrote:
> 
> I've never understood people who say: I've got 580 open tabs. How can
> that be useful in any way?

When I'm working in FF, I always open pages in a new tab. So my
tabs are in 'zones' of related pages, associated with problems that
I haven't yet resolved. ISTR explaining this here only 28¼ days ago.

Cheers,
David.