Lately, I’ve been thinking that so much of what we do in the browser is revisiting pages that we’ve been to before, so a time-based view makes a lot of sense.
#SESSIONRESTORE FIREFOX WINDOWS#
First of all, recently-closed windows are accessed from within a history list. Here’s a quick mockup of what a similar screen might look like on startup (mouse over to see the notes): Most of the space in his design is taken up by contextual actions, but when you’re just starting the browser, these aren’t as relevant. His proposal included a separate screen for restoring recently-closed tabs and windows, but it’s kind of hidden in his design. So I’m thinking - what if we got rid of these questions altogether? What if Firefox always remembered what windows and tabs you had open? But you might not want 15 tabs loading every time you start Firefox up.Ī while back, Aza proposed making the new tab screen more useful. And asking me when I start up might not be the right time either…I’m starting my browser because I have something to do, and I can’t remember what I had open before, so how should I know whether to restore or not? Either you’re part of the problem, or… “Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for next time?” I’m probably closing my browser for a reason, but I have no idea whether or not I’ll need these tabs next time. Not only does it use modal dialog boxes, but it’s asking me a question that’s usually unrelated to what I’m trying to do. “Do you want to remember this password?”) in favour of non-modal messages in the notification bar (see Alex Faaborg’s post about this from last year). One of great things about Firefox 3 is that it eliminated a lot of the modal dialog boxes (e.g. First, it uses modal dialog boxes, which are generally a bad idea. The Problemīut the interface for session restore has always bugged me a bit. (And in my field study I’ve learned that lots of other people do this too.) If your browser crashes, or the Firefox process sustains collateral damage in a kill(1)ing spree, it’s a relief not to lose all the tabs your were saving. I often use tabs like lightweight bookmarks, leaving tabs open to a page that I am planning to come back to.
You know, when you start Firefox, and it asks you if you’d like to restore your windows and tabs from last time? That’s session restore. One thing that’s been on my mind lately is the session restore feature. Since I’m doing a field study on how people use tabs in Firefox, you can imagine that I spend a lot of time thinking some of the smallest details of the Firefox user experience.
#SESSIONRESTORE FIREFOX HOW TO#
If you are unfamiliar with how to locate your folder, please see: Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data on Mozilla Support.Sketchbook: Firefox session restore December 5, 2008
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