[Ext] SessionSaver .2d: new (rewrite)

murphyrulez · Post by **murphyrulez** » September 24th, 2004, 8:34 pm

I second that motion. I listen to Sirius streaming radio alot, and if I forget to close the javascript radio window first, I am screwed. If it gets closed last, the next time I open FF, I get a small window with no menus, no tabs. I have no idea how to get that stuff back, so I have had to just remove my FF install, and re-install everything.

Is there an easier way?

d_g · Post by **d_g** » September 25th, 2004, 3:44 am

Perhaps SessionSaver can maintain 2 or 3 backups of tab sessions on exit? This way, if the last session gets corrupted, we can always go to the one before that.

Now THAT's a good idea!

rue · Post by **rue** » September 25th, 2004, 3:19 pm

You can already achieve an isolated backup via "Save session-copy on shutdown".
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Even better: how about a "scheduling" option, which auto-records to a saved set (which you determine), every n-minutes? That avoids determinance of what constitutes 'corruption' and how to counter-activate. The scheduled-set would have a key-shortcut, in case of startup corruption.
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Huh. In fact, a shortcut to re-activate a window's chrome would be pretty easy, too. Unnecessary, after the next release; but still easy.

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[ oh, i see- you want rolling backups from n-shutdowns back. yea, we can do that, too. ]

cooldyood · Post by **cooldyood** » September 25th, 2004, 4:03 pm

where can i fond sessionsaver extension for 1.0 PR ?

Vadi · Post by **Vadi** » September 26th, 2004, 4:48 am

Extensions Mirror

yegor · Post by **yegor** » September 26th, 2004, 10:46 am

For some reason SessionSaver does not restore the last session automatically when I start Firefox. I have "Restore every startup" option checked. The problem holds out since probably FF0.8 (don't remember exactly it was the time when SS didn't work with new release of FF).
So I have to restore session manually. It also usually does not save session automaticaly on shutdown though "save session-copy on shutdown" is checked.

yegor · Post by **yegor** » September 26th, 2004, 11:00 am

Addition to the previous post:
It seems that I've fixed auto-save on shutdown by removing all sessionsaver entries from pref.js But it still does not restore session on startup.

PeinOmbre · Post by **PeinOmbre** » September 26th, 2004, 6:50 pm

I have installed the Session Saver Extension to use with Firefox 1.0PR and encountered one very annoying bug which I had never seen before. It turns out that everytime I'll shutdown Firefox with multiple tabs opened, when I restart Firefox I get all tabs back except for the last one which appears as an empty tab now. Anyone has encountered that before, or does anyone know how I can fix that?

rue · Post by **rue** » September 26th, 2004, 11:39 pm

wildman:
Don't forget, I did say dev. would resume. I write this stuff, like most here, in spare time. There are no "future plans" -- just the act of setting aside a block of time and writing. ..And yes, once I'm satisfied with its status, I'll give SS its own page.
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davidc04:
Rig a test-case with the scenario you described, then check the next reply.
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yegor:
After startup, pop the script-console and post any errors you see: Tools > JavaScript Console.
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PeinOmbre:
After focusing the empty tab, check the Go-menu -- are the proper history-entries present? Can you activate the desired one?

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » September 27th, 2004, 8:05 am

rue wrote:wildman:
Don't forget, I did say dev. would resume. I write this stuff, like most here, in spare time. There are no "future plans" -- just the act of setting aside a block of time and writing. ..And yes, once I'm satisfied with its status, I'll give SS its own page.
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Right click on the extension and go to "Visit Home Page" and it comes up with this:

http://adblock.mozdev.org/sessionsaver/

yegor · Post by **yegor** » September 27th, 2004, 11:33 am

rue wrote:yegor:
After startup, pop the script-console and post any errors you see: Tools > JavaScript Console.

After startup there is no message on the console window BUT after I restore the session manually a message appears:

Error: [Exception... "'Component does not have requested interface' when calling method: [nsIInterfaceRequestor::getInterface]" nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)" location: "<unknown>" data: no]

KilliK · Post by **KilliK** » September 29th, 2004, 2:57 am

i have done a stupid thing
i had saved a tab session in the last 9x firefox version and yesterday i installed the 1.0pr version over the older one
the new ff didnt restore my saved session and ofcourse the ss plugin is incompatible.
is there a way to open the saved session manually or at least to see which urls were saved?its very important
and the h**p://www.extensionsmirror.nl link for the 1.0pr compatible plugin doesnt work

wong888 · Post by **wong888** » September 29th, 2004, 3:10 am

open your prefs.js file with notepad, the sessions are saved at the bottom part.

KilliK · Post by **KilliK** » September 30th, 2004, 3:28 am

wong888 wrote:open your prefs.js file with notepad, the sessions are saved at the bottom part.

thanx very much it worked

Klavs · Post by **Klavs** » October 1st, 2004, 3:46 am

Session saver simply won't work for me - it never has

I have used TBE since firefox 0.7 - and it worked fine.
Since I upgraded from 0.8 to 0.9 it didn't automatically restore sessions - but atleast I could save tabstate and restore them.
Only problem with TBE is that it makes my firefox sooo slow - it litereally takes me 10 seconds to switch between tabs and the cpu usage goes to max - when I've got more than a tab or two open

- it also made firefox prone to crash - on www.bt.dk especially - but only with TBE installed.

So I uninstalled TBE - and now tried Session saver on v1.0pre - but it does not work - I tried the version from extensionsmirror.nl - last nightly build 23.

I also tried to find my last session in my prefs.js - and delete that - but it does not save a new one in there - and something! restores only my last active tab

In prefs.js there's these two, that I think does this - and perhaps they are disallowing sessionsaver to work?

user_pref("browser.tabs.extensions.reload_restored_session", true);
user_pref("browser.tabs.extensions.restore_last_visited_tabs", true);
user_pref("browser.tabs.extensions.session.save_blank_tab", false);