I was using that... 2004

Every now and then my browser will crash, often upon visiting a site doing something clever and/or of dubious standards compliance. Every now and then I'll close the program or restart the computer when I had pages open in the browser I still wanted to do something with. When this happens I lose track of things I intended to do.

What I want is a Firefox feature or plug-in which allows me to always launch the program with the tabs/windows I last had open. I want some way to indicate "okay, I'm done with this URL" and that way is probably most easily achieved by hitting the browser "home" button and then, when launching the program, never opening more than one window with that home page.

If I was planning to tackle this program (which since I'm not a programmer, I'm not), I would start with a file in which the "currently open URLs" are written - this might already exist - and then write changes to the location to it (removing the old location) and append new entries when new tabs/pages are opened, then save it. When launching the program, I'd treat the file as though I'd selected a bunch of bookmarks in a folder and clicked "Open". Or at least that's where I'd start my research & experimentation.

This just doesn't seem that hard...

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I was using that...

Every now and then my browser will crash, often upon visiting a site doing something clever and/or of dubious standards compliance. Every now and then I'll close the program or restart the computer when I had pages open in the browser I still wanted to do something with. When this happens I lose track of things I intended to do.

What I want is a Firefox feature or plug-in which allows me to always launch the program with the tabs/windows I last had open. I want some way to indicate "okay, I'm done with this URL" and that way is probably most easily achieved by hitting the browser "home" button and then, when launching the program, never opening more than one window with that home page.

If I was planning to tackle this program (which since I'm not a programmer, I'm not), I would start with a file in which the "currently open URLs" are written - this might already exist - and then write changes to the location to it (removing the old location) and append new entries when new tabs/pages are opened, then save it. When launching the program, I'd treat the file as though I'd selected a bunch of bookmarks in a folder and clicked "Open". Or at least that's where I'd start my research & experimentation.

This just doesn't seem that hard...

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