[Default] On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:49:39 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Micky
writes:
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And the last planned stage is to improve how FFox saves tabs. Right
now, if theres' a crash or even if I close Windows normally, when I
restart, the Restore Session tab will likely be hours old (older than
the time Windows closed) not including tabs created later and
including ones already deleted. Even though the interval time
between saving sessionstore is set at 5 minutes or less.

The suggestions seem to be add-ons, either Session Manager or Tab Mix
Plus. Do you know if either can make the problem worse? They both
have millions of downloads, and the first has a 4.6 star rating over
456 reviews, and the second 4+ stars over 2600 reviews.

I have TMP, and can't say I've noticed Firefox's tab set being out as
you describe - though (a) I don't change the set of tabs I have open

I change mine all the time.

_much_, and (b) I use FF 26, so the problem may not be relevant.

I think it still would be. Except you have TMP.

I thought this was a problem that needed solving eventually, but
yesterday I enlarged a HDD partition, and it required rebooting to
take effect. I used Search Everywhere to find sessionstore.* (I
think that's part of the name of where the tabs are stored.) There
was more than one but the newest one was 28 hours hold. Huh ????, it's
supposed to be no more than 5 minutes old or since the most recent tab
change, whichever is older.

And I'm tired of losing my tabs, so I decided I had to install
something right then. It seems both Session Manager and TMP do some
of the same things, but SM emphasized saving tabs and windows, and for
TMP it was 3rd or 4th, after creating duplicate tabs (with both Backs
and Forwards) and one or two other things.

So I installed Session Manager and restarted windows, and it seems to
have saved everything, and nothing extra. To the best of my memory.

Also both SM and TMP said they were compatible, and SM said the
session saving part of TMP had to be disabled if used together, and
one of them said this happened automatically if SM was there when TMP
was installed. So I can add TMP later if I want.

One thing very good about SM is that it allows me to delete items from
the Recently Closed Window list. FF puts a limit on that, and the
default is 3!!!, but it can be raised to at least 25, but 6 years ago
it only counted "real" windows as windows, but I guess that left out
some windows people wanted to restore, so now it counts *everything*,
evan an enlarged item for sale in amazon or Ebay. And that eats up
the quota of 25 pretty quickly, especially if I'm not paying
attention. And no one on the FF list answered when I asked how to
delete items.

SM made it very easy, with right-click/delete.

It also makes the max limit a lot more obvious. IIRC it's in the
Options window, but FF requires one to know about about:config and to
know there is a setting, and more or less the setting name. (They all
have sessionstore in them, so if you know that you can find it.)