[plug] How do I make Firefox a startup on reboot?

[Timothy White]

Gavin Chester wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:59 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
>
>
>>On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:26 +0800, Dean Holland wrote:
>>
>>
>>>There is an extension for firefox - Tabbrowser Extensions that allows
>>>you to "save" tab sessions and restore them at a later time. I believe
>>>you can set it to save the session when you close firefox and load the
>>>most recent tab session when it starts up - then all you would have to
>>>do is setup your desktop environment to start Firefox when you login and
>>>that should be close to what you want.
>>>
>>>The extension home page is
>>>http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en
>>>
>>>
>>Thanks, I'll cast an eyeball across it - why'd I ever change from
>>Galeon?  ;-P
>>
>>RichardM
>>
>>
>
>Have you tried building it from source or downloading a binary?  The
>only catch to that is that you need mozilla and gnome libraries, even if
>you don't use those apps directly.
>
>(/rant) I've tried the others and I keep coming back to [insert heavily
>marketed product name here] ;-).  I have things about Galeon that I
>hate, but after trying other browsers, including Firefox with extensions
>and bookmarklets trying to mimic galeon, I keep coming back to galeon.
>It does crash when heavily loaded (ie, multiple windows with oodles of
>tabs each.  Maybe it gets veryniced?) but as soon as you start it up
>again it asks to restore your previous session.  I've not found any
>browser that tracks your session use as well as galeon and brings you
>back to the same state after it crashes or after killing it, logging
>out, etc.  Firefox crashed on me the other day and the history was not
>right-up-to-the-minute to let me restore everything.  It was basically
>all lost.  Galeon also just does tabs with so much more usability than
>any other browser I've tried (rant/)
>
>
I to have to say that the session saver extension Just Works, I've liked
the crash recovery very much.

>SessionSaver extension:
>
>    https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=436
>
Tim

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