Firefox Tip: How to retain multiple open pages (tabbed) across operating system restart
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkFriday, March 25, 2005
I often work with multiple webpages open at the same time. I have tendency to use online documentations and work mostly on browser based applications. So it is a pain to restart and opening them again. Bookmarking doesn’t solve because firstly you have to individually bookmark the pages and secondly its a pain to open.
My solution is to Go to Tools/Options menu and click Use Current Pages. After restart I just click on Home button to open up all those pages.
Let me know if it is useful to you.
PS. Tested only on Windows but I have no reason tio believe that it will not work on any other platform.
 Dakini |
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April 10, 2005: 5:22 am
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April 1, 2005: 5:56 pm
@Alek I have started using the SessionSaver. It is a wonderful solution to the problem, much simpler then what I proposed. Thanks again. I heartily recommend it to anyone. |
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March 29, 2005: 3:51 pm
@Richard Saunders I use the TabMix extension. It allows easy switching between tabs and hosts of other useful functions. |
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March 29, 2005: 3:49 pm
@Karsten That is true. However the strange thing is if I try to save a bookmark using the same technique it wouldn’t work. @Alek Thanks for the tip on SessionSaver. @All Here is the link to SessionSaver suggested by Alex. |
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March 29, 2005: 3:14 am
That’s cool, but have you found a hot key or a way to make a hot key to jump from tab to tab quickly? |
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March 28, 2005: 3:46 am
The trick is to put pipes | between the URLs in the tools/options startpage input field |
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March 26, 2005: 5:06 pm
Why not use SessionSaver? It will save browsing history and all winows with tabs order as well. |
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March 26, 2005: 6:09 am
@Rami Thanks for providing a simpler solution @TronD I agree. It does open them in new tabs. However the solution you suggest also does the same. I used to do that to open KingFeatures comics, all of them at once |
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March 25, 2005: 11:01 pm
Last time I tried this solution (I think it was with firefox 0.8 or 0.9) there was a problem when I had one or more of the pages already open. Instead of opening the homepages in the already open tabs, Firefox opens a new tab for each. Quite annoying.. Another solution could be to group the pages you want to open in a Bookmark group/folder, right-click and choose “Open in tabs”. That way you can have your homepage different from your set of work-pages. |
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March 25, 2005: 8:44 pm
Actually, Firefox supports bookmark groups, you just press Ctrl+D and tick the check box next to “Bookmark all tabs in a folder”; now you can open all those bookmarks by clicking “Open in tabs” in that folder. Hope you find that more useful |
Eric