Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:52:12PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:02, [email protected] wrote:
> > >>>If that provides the same functianlity, I cant figure out how to do it.
> > >>> The functionality that "sessiosn" provides is the abilty to store one
> > >>> or more groups of tabs, such that I can simply select a session, and
> > >>> wind up with several tabs each open to the desired site.
> > >>>
> > >>>How can I acomplish this in the new version?
> > >>
> > >>   Bookmarks/Add Tabs As Folder makes folder with all currently open
> > >>tabs saved as bookmarks in that folder. Then I close all tabs, then I
> > >>right click on that bookmark folder newly created and say Open folder in
> > >>Tabs. All tabs are back and shining. Looks just what you're describing.
> > >> :)
> 
> What you describe is _not_ session management, and is very cumbersome by 
> comparison. Saving a session involves saving and restoring the details (URI, 
> name, etc.) of every tab in every window, in the correct order. There should 
> be crash protection: if Galeon crashes, it provides an option to restore the 
> entire session upon restart. Galeon 1.x has had an excellent implementation 
> of session management for quite some time.
> 

BTW, I found a "session management" extension to Firefox that sems to do
pretty much what I want/ The tabs are big and clunk compared to Galeon 1.2,
but I think I can live with it.

We'll see, I still have not made a decision.


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