session restore

Soon Firefox will open automatically on Startup or after Windows restart

Posted by Techdows on Aug 10th, 2018

Mozilla has registered Firefox with Windows Restart Manager, as a result, if you don’t close the Firefox browser or if it is open when you shut down or restart Windows, next time when you start your computer Firefox will launch... More »

Firefox 56: Restore Previous Session from tab bar

Posted by Techdows on Jun 29th, 2017

As we reported some time ago Mozilla has added session restore button to the tab bar in version 56 of Firefox browser, but disabled by default. If you’ve not changed Firefox startup behavior to ‘show tabs and windows from... More »

Firefox Nightly Gets Lazy Session Restore Feature

Posted by Techdows on Apr 22nd, 2017

Firefox Session Restoration – which loads tabs and windows from previous session – time has significantly improved by volunteer contributor Kevin Jones and the lazy session restore has been landed in Nightly (Firefox 55).... More »

Firefox to show a button for session restore on tab bar

Posted by Techdows on Nov 11th, 2016

Mozilla wants Firefox users to discover the most useful session restore feature, that’s why they want to add button for it in the tab bar. The button labelled ‘Restore Tabs From Last Time’ will only appear to the... More »

Google Chrome 45 gets Smarter at Restoring Previous Tabs, Uses less Memory and Power

Posted by Techdows on Sep 4th, 2015

This is the Google Chrome’s tagline:’ A Web browser built for Speed, Simplicity and Security’, Chrome isn’t speedier and responsive as it was before when first launched, the Chromium team seems to have forgotten... More »

Dormancy for Firefox Automatically Unloads Inactive Tabs to Free up RAM

Posted by Techdows on Oct 22nd, 2011

If you used to open lot of tabs in Firefox and work, inactive tabs always consume memory we’ve covered about:config tweak to speed up Firefox based on BarTab add-on which lets you load desired pages in background and all other... More »

Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 release to fix App Tabs to Stay Permanent irrespective of Session Restore

Posted by Techdows on Aug 18th, 2010

App Tabs feature released in Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 allows users to turn their most used websites into App Tabs, but these App Tabs will not be permanent or saved and will be restored along with other tabs if session restore is enabled,... More »