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sheldrake ([personal profile] tadorna) wrote2006-09-01 10:12 pm
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Thanks, Firefox...

... for just losing me all my tabs, history and extensions, for no apparent reason. That's really great. Ta.

Regular readers of this journal may remember the way I like to abuse tab mix plus and session saver, and the vast quantities of tabs I tend to leave open. Take this as a lesson, kids. Use bookmarks like normal people.

*cries*
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[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not unusual for me to have more than 50, but I'd been on a tab-closing spree, so it probably wasn't that many. Serves me right, really...
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[identity profile] hobbituk.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That happens to me a lot. Also, if you have a separate window open, maybe one with just one tab on it, sometimes that is the only one that saves. Grrrh.

I do love the whole tab thing, though.

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe one with just one tab on it, sometimes that is the only one that saves. Grrrh

Oh, isn't that the worst!

I have identified the culprit as my new Queer as Folk DVDs, which crashed my laptop twice in quick succession. Won't be watching that on here again...
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[identity profile] zoniduck.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
This won't help you now, but Session Saver blows goats. You would do much better to get Tab Mix Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/) and use its built-in session manager and crash recovery functions. I've never lost any tabs to a crash since I switched. Sorry, sweetie!

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, see, that was silly of me, because I already had tab mix plus, but I'd installed session saver first, so I just carried on using it. Oh well, that'll learn me.

[identity profile] lebannen.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't use bookmarks either. I'm aware that my link management strategy lacks a certain something; I also rarely have less than a dozen tabs open, and more usually 20+, and don't use any tab management extensions. And yes, when it all crashes it's not a pretty sight. You have my sympathy.

I very nearly just posted something about this in this Metafilter thread about haording behaviour, but if I post *anything* there my brother will see it and mock. I think the hoarding thing will get its own post in my journal shortly.

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, so it's not just me! Oh dear, I'm such a terrible hoarder, and my browser is just like my life - a huge untidy mess. Sigh...

[identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
omg1111

I knew it! I knew why I distrusted those buggers! Because I kept losing them and wondering what secrets other people had! Ack, you lost 2,574 tabs!!

Call it decluttering and set it free, hon. Life is trying to tell you something.

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't laugh! It worked 99% of the time!

Call it decluttering and set it free, hon. Life is trying to tell you something.

That may well be true. I was probably never going to read those 900 fics anyway. not that that's stopped me from scrabbling round after some the more recent ones whose titles I could still remember...
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[personal profile] msilverstar 2006-09-02 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
*pets you*

Tab Mix doesn't do sessions properly (I'm on a Mac) and I have been diligent about naming and backing up every single night. So I'll be careful!
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