firefox2 strangeness.

[Aaron Konstam]

Sometimes (but not always) when I open firefox2 I get a pop-up which
asks me whether I want to stat a new session or restore the old session.

What controls this event to occur?
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[Colin J Thomson]

On Saturday 28 April 2007 9:28:17 pm Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Sometimes (but not always) when I open firefox2 I get a pop-up which
> asks me whether I want to stat a new session or restore the old session.
>
> What controls this event to occur?

Possibly you logged out or shutdown with Firefox open. This also will happen 
if Firefox crashed or you killed Firefox for some reason.

HTH

Colin

[Kam Leo]

On 4/28/07, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK  wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2007 9:28:17 pm Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Sometimes (but not always) when I open firefox2 I get a pop-up which
> > asks me whether I want to stat a new session or restore the old session.
> >
> > What controls this event to occur?
>
> Possibly you logged out or shutdown with Firefox open. This also will happen
> if Firefox crashed or you killed Firefox for some reason.

New feature of Firefox 2. If you have been a user of an earlier
version you should read the release notes to see what has changed.
> HTH
>
> Colin

[Robin Laing]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Sometimes (but not always) when I open firefox2 I get a pop-up which
> asks me whether I want to stat a new session or restore the old session.
> What controls this event to occur?

It is part of the session manager in FF2.

It is one of the most useful tools that I use daily.

It allows me to save the session that I am running and then close off 
Firefox without having to bookmark or try to remember what sites I have 
open at the end of the work day.

The control for session manager is in Tools on my installation.  I have 
installed tabmix plus that has it's own session manager.

Check under preferences for the settings.

[Andrey Shmigelsky]

How to save session? I cant find this option in my FF 2.0.2

On 4/30/07, Robin Laing  wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Sometimes (but not always) when I open firefox2 I get a pop-up which
> > asks me whether I want to stat a new session or restore the old session.
> > What controls this event to occur?
>
> It is part of the session manager in FF2.
>
> It is one of the most useful tools that I use daily.
>
> It allows me to save the session that I am running and then close off
> Firefox without having to bookmark or try to remember what sites I have
> open at the end of the work day.
>
> The control for session manager is in Tools on my installation.  I have
> installed tabmix plus that has it's own session manager.
>
> Check under preferences for the settings.
>
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[Amir E. Aharoni]

> How to save session? I cant find this option in my FF 2.0.2

I don't think that it's possible to manually save a session. It is
saved automatically every 10 seconds, unless you configure it
differently.

Read more about it here:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.interval

[Robin Laing]

Andrey Shmigelsky wrote:
> How to save session? I cant find this option in my FF 2.0.2
>
> On 4/30/07, *Robin Laing* <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>  > Sometimes (but not always) when I open firefox2 I get a pop-up which
>  > asks me whether I want to stat a new session or restore the old
> session.
>  >
>  > What controls this event to occur?
>  > --
>  >
>
> It is part of the session manager in FF2.
>
> It is one of the most useful tools that I use daily.
>
> It allows me to save the session that I am running and then close off
> Firefox without having to bookmark or try to remember what sites I have
> open at the end of the work day.
>
> The control for session manager is in Tools on my installation.  I have
> installed tabmix plus that has it's own session manager.
>
> Check under preferences for the settings.

I installed Tab Mix Plus addon as soon as I installed Firefox.  It adds 
features to Firefox that I find very useful.

This is the session manager I use.  Now when I installed it, it did ask 
if I wanted to use the default Firefox manager or the Tab Mix Plus one.

From the Firefox site, there are some settings in about:config to 
change the sessions settings.

From http://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore

You can change

browser.startup.page = 3 - Resume sessions always. Default is 1 (open to 
the homepage at browser.startup.homepage)

I still think Tab Mix Plus is a better manager as it gives you some 
options as well.  Handy when you get one of those sites that causes a 
crash when you try accessing the page.