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

mobilone · Post by **mobilone** » October 19th, 2005, 10:16 am

Yep! Something's surely amiss! As before (other people use this computer, i.e. my girlfriend) the normal "Do you want to restore from your last session?" window does not appear, nor does the sessionsaver menu items in the tools menu.

Understand that menuedit pruning my menu's and sessionsaver going awol did not coincide. In fact the menuedit thing happened weeks ago. Whatever happened recenlty is similar in its mysterious reappropriation of menus but possibly only related to a larger underlying problem/corruption.

Why does menuedit make a .bak file if I can't restore my menus from it?

It seems like sessionsaver is no longer a part of Fx's startup. I tried to disable and then re-enable SS, but to no avail. There is nothing there except for sessionsaver sitting in the extensions folder.

Come to think of it, I think this happened after I performed an update, but I don't think SS was updated. Only forced to dissapear by the update. I don't know if that helps you help me but I sure do need help

Thanks in advance

mobilone · Post by **mobilone** » October 19th, 2005, 10:20 am

Another thing that happened is all in one sidebar doesn't work anymore either

Peng · Post by **Peng** » October 19th, 2005, 10:27 am

Uninstall the two extensions that don't work, and install the newest version of each.

mobilone · Post by **mobilone** » October 19th, 2005, 10:30 am

if I do that, will my sessions stay intact?

If so, will I be able to add them from a backup?

Peng · Post by **Peng** » October 19th, 2005, 10:34 am

Your saved sessions will not be removed.

Chirishman · Post by **Chirishman** » October 19th, 2005, 11:12 am

The new SessionSaver doesn't work on Firefox Beta 2. Also, where does SessionSaver save to?

Schrade · Post by **Schrade** » October 19th, 2005, 11:26 am

Gah there's no need to delete those files! All you have to do is go to Tools -> Customize Menus -> Click Reset button.

You can force compatibility using MR Tech Local Install. (You can get it from the big thread in this forum) Just install that extension and you'll be able to right click disabled extensions and 'Make Compatible' for your current build of Firefox.

It also has a checkbox on the Install requester when you click on an extension and try to install it but it gives you a compatibility warning. The checkbox allows you to ignore the maxversion in the extension you're trying to install and then rewrites it with your current maxversion. It installs silently though... not like you'd normally see an extension install itself.

ghostshadow · Post by **ghostshadow** » October 19th, 2005, 12:18 pm

mobilone: Thanks very much! Worked perfectly.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » October 19th, 2005, 12:25 pm

Chirishman wrote:The new SessionSaver doesn't work on Firefox Beta 2. Also, where does SessionSaver save to?

WFM.

That was just asked on the last page. sessionsaver.* preferences.

Schrade: Oh, right. The reset button. Though that won't touch localstore.rdf, if it has a problem. Nightly Tester Tools can also do that stuff.

aranzilla · Post by **aranzilla** » October 19th, 2005, 12:48 pm

might be a bug, but I noticed that after installing SessionSaver on my multi monitor windows xp system, the first firefox instance would always opens in the primary monitor.

after disabling SessionSaver, firefox returned to the expected behaviour: opening in the monitor where it was last closed.

i can't say what causes this, but you definitely need a two monitor pc to duplicate the scenario

using Mozilla Firefox Beta 2:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051012 Firefox/1.4.1

mobilone · Post by **mobilone** » October 19th, 2005, 1:14 pm

Schrade wrote:Gah there's no need to delete those files! All you have to do is go to Tools -> Customize Menus -> Click Reset button.

If you are referring to my problem, I tried that but it changed nothing. Since then I uninstalled menuedit. I believe the problem (s) may have to do with the fact that I am runnng a slightly older version of Fx. Not to menion a greater underlying weirdness lurking about my system. I don't think it was a problem with menuedit. I have wondered though, whether running Fx on a mac changes anything. I thought it must effect some extensions performance, but I've been lead to beleive otherwise.

Anyways, Thanks

mobilone · Post by **mobilone** » October 19th, 2005, 2:30 pm

Thamks a lot Peng
Big warm hugs
-m1

Peng · Post by **Peng** » October 19th, 2005, 4:38 pm

mobilone wrote:Thamks a lot Peng
Big warm hugs
-m1

For? Deleting those files worked?

Peng · Post by **Peng** » October 22nd, 2005, 11:55 pm

If I have a tab with multiple things in the forward/back history, go back a few pages, and close the tab, the most recent title is displayed in the SnapBack menu and if I use SnapBack to open it back up, it's on the most recent page.. Also, SnapBack isn't restoring scroll position, when I could swear it used to.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051021 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005102104, SessionSaver 0.2.1.030.2.5.

rue · Post by **rue** » October 23rd, 2005, 1:13 am

Peng:
Oh, handling needs to be added for bfcache; thanks for reminding.
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As for SnapBack, it restores what's been captured, and scrolling (unfortunately) is only captured after: a.) you've switched tabs; b.) typed in a field; c.) clicked an input item (checkbox, radio, or list); d.) caused a subframe to load.
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Presently, there's no non-hackish way to trigger when the user scrolls a content-view; so scroll-values are "lazily" captured, from other triggers.

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

Doesn't work