One of my only gripes with the indispensable tabbed browsing in Firefox is the lack of a save feature. I get quite into my browsing sessions, having up to 8 or 10 tabs open at one time and being forced to close because Firefox crashed or for any other reason can be a real inconvenience. While this saving your browsing session has been available in Opera for some time, it still looks as though it will be a while for an official release to incorporate this feature.
Pike’s Mozilla Firefox extensions offers an excellent SessionSaver though and is available to download here. Fully compatible with 1.5, Session Saver supports crash and multiple windows and I have got to say I don’t know how I ever lived without it!
According to Mozillazine here is a full list of the supported features;
- Remembers all open windows:
- Remembers window-chrome settings (toolbars, etc.)
- Remembers window position / size
- Remembers every tab’s scroll-state
- Remembers every tab’s history scroll-states (in dev.)
- Stores only 1 pref-string per window
- Writes prefs to disk for every tab/window open + close
- Captures complete session-state on shutdown-request
- Writes flag on shutdown-request /
- Crash-recovers prior session if flag wasn’t written
