Oct
30
2006OMFG - Firefox 2.0 Rules
30
2006
This morning I installed Firefox 2.0. This evening I declare it unspeakable awesome.
Why? Well, I was working on a Very Special blog post (you’ll see it shortly) for at least half an hour, when my computer suddenly rebooted itself without any warning whatsoever - (note to self: I think the computer is overheating). Being that this is a Wordpress blog, my post was simply being typed up in a basic, garden variety HTML “textarea” - so, clearly my post was doomed.
Not so. Upon getting back into Windows, Firefox realized Something Bad had happened, and asked me if I wanted to “restore my session”. I agreed to this, and Firefox not only reopened all the browser windows and tabs that I had open when the computer crashed - the entire contents of the textbox containing my unsaved post were also revived. I see now that this is a new feature called “Session Restore”
Kudos to the Mozilla crew for building such an unbelievably useful feature into Firefox. If you’re a blogger, this is reason enough alone to upgrade. If you’re not already using Firefox - what are you waiting for?
Session restore kicked in for me following a brief power outage this past weekend. I was blown away. All four Firefox windows reopened, and the topmost page was right where I had stopped scrolling.
Mark 10/31/06 @ 8:49 pm