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Firefox 2 annoyance
On one of my PCs, I have upgraded my Firefox browser to 2.0, a few weeks ago. I can't say that, apart from details, I notice much of a difference. Which is not necessarily a bad thing...
But the developers behind Firefox should learn the difference between a crash, and a system shutdown. Because every single time I first open the browser, an annoying dialog box pops up asking me if I want to restore the previous session. It won't go away without clicking on a button first, and it just blocks the working of the browser. Even when I click "new session" the browser forgot the argument (either an URL or the path to a html page) Firefox got opened with, and simply opens on the homepage. Argh!
And if they think restoring the last session is such a cool feature, why don't they just add it as a menu item, in the system menu? So that you can still restore a session even after they closed the browser normally?
and I don't think you really want that... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Mar11.230002.27271@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Shutting Down How? (Score:1)
Which OS are you using and how are you closing Firefox?
I'm on Ubuntu and find that it behaves itself if I close Firefox with File > Quit, but not if I just log out of the OS leaving Firefox running.
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Which OS are you using and how are you closing Firefox?
Whenever I say "PC", I mean it in the traditional sense: a Windows box. Sorry for the confusion. And by shutting down, I mean using ALt-F4 in Explorer, or by using the "shut down" button in the Start menu.
I'm on Ubuntu and find that it behaves itself if I close Firefox with File > Quit, but not if I just log out of the OS leaving Firefox running.
Hmm, if I'm not mistaking, that sounds like the same problem...
On Windows, if I tell the OS to shut down, it sends a different message to the open windows, than when you just close a window. But anyway, a message gets sent, something that obviously doesn't happen in a crash. It is a normal way to termina
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And second: I want to give the computer a rest. I've had a hard disk break down after a few months of being on for 24 hours a day, because it has been warm for too long.
I don't use my computer for more than 12-15 hours every day. And then, I shut it down. If I'm just gone for an hour or so, I leave it