Why can’t I save my browser tabs?
Tuesday, 20 October 2009Here’s what I mean: I’m working on a news story, and I have a Firefox window open with six tabs, each showing the website of a potential source. I rounded up the sources earlier today, while waiting for a call, but I won’t have a chance to go through them until tomorrow or later in the week.
So now I have to keep this extra window open, unless I want to reopen all those websites again when I need them. Yes, if I quit Firefox, it’ll save my tabs; but as long as I’m using it—for, say, checking Gmail or writing this blog post—that window I don’t need for another day or two is just sitting there. (It’s minimized, but it’s still there.)
It shouldn’t be that hard to save your work, as it were, in a browser—I should have the option to save my browser state the same way I’d save a Word doc, for reopening at a later time. As far as I can tell, Firefox won’t let me do that, though. Do any of the other browsers?
Opera lets you save sessions. I don’t know about any of the others.
@karimagon: This is good to know. Thank you.
Create a folder on your desktop. Drag and drop the URLs from your tabs into this folder. They will become @ icons with URLs embedded. When the time is right, select all six URLs and drag them back into Firefox. Name each folder for the appropriate story. Or don’t. See if I care. Whatever. Gosh.
@Ryan: Or! Check this out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2324
It just occurred to me that we are starting to talk about things like mortgages and managing our browser tabs.
@Ryan: We old. We old.
(At the 10-year South reunion, Harleigh was in the middle of a conversation with a big group of people about mortgages that prompted Josh Brekke to suddenly leap from his chair, announce “F— this s—!”, and abruptly depart the room.)