A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
I generally have a "home" Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to "lose" it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!
Literally every browser has this feature, it's not unique to Firefox.
Firefox didn’t have it for the longest time so a lot of people don’t know
So we're giving them props for something that's been available on chrome for a decade?
No, we are letting people know it’s there
Saved my butt a few times already.
Even works with 200 tabs open.
I use this several times per day when I close the wrong tab (or window). :)
In my FF I have set the "reopen all tabs that were there when I closed" option, so it never has been a problem
Does it work when you had two windows opened? Does it reopens both or only the last closed one?
Chrome crippling the reopen tab option(they removed from right click menu) is what drove me back to Firefox.
I'm so sorry you had to use chrome, hope your day gets better.
Not here to defend chrome, but Ctrl+Shift+T works on chrome as well still.
@OP When you have continue session on, closing Firefox using burger menu->Quit restores all windows. I assume this will also keep the pins even without continue session.
It works until Firefox applies updates and the next time you open it it automatically loads a "what's new in Firefox" tab erasing your previous session. Then you're SOL unless there's some way around that.
Try T
You're welcome
I like Firefox but I don't love that they keep track of all of my bookmarks and their history plus there's no way to turn that off. I thought they were more privacy oriented than that.
You mean "recent bookmarks"? Huh, never noticed that was there. I think it's probably locally stored and not really a thing websites can just access.
Are you talking about them syncing to your Firefox account? Because you can turn that off or just not sign in.
No, I don't have an account with them, go to your hamburger menu and look at your bookmarks and history, there's no way to delete that info or turn off that they save it.
The whole point of bookmarks is that they are saved sites so why would they automatically delete them? Also just click on Manage Bookmarks or Manage History and you can delete anything from there… If you don’t want history to be saved then use a private window.
wat
I edited my comment.
Wait, what? You don't want them to save bookmarks? Then what is the use of a bookmark? And you can definitely set your browser to erase your history every time you close it.