On Mittwoch, 7. September 2022 16:23:28 -04 Alex King wrote: > A couple of FF Extensions you might benefit from: > > Auto Tab Discard: although it does the opposite of what you want, > (I.e. the purpose is to discard or "unload" tabs,) it gives a UI into > the settings for when tabs are discarded. (Although I'm on FF > 91.13.0esr, and I don't know if it works on FF 104.) > > Textarea Cache: Allows to save automatically the content in a text > input field. Great for retrieving text you wrote into a website, e.g. > if the submission failed for some reason. Not sure if it stores text > from text input fields on discarded pages or not... > > Thanks, > Alex
Dear Alex, definitely I'm going to try both extensions and then report back. Will try Textarea Cache first and Auto Tab Discard independently next. Thank you! de Eike > > On 8/09/22 05:10, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Subject: > > Firefox 104 on Sid unusable because it blanks open tabs after a few > > minutes From: > > Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ <zp6...@gmx.net> > > Date: > > 8/09/22, 04:16 > > > > To: > > debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > > > I admit that I usually have ~ 70 tabs open. > > FF does not blank all, just most of them. > > Then I have to reload the pages and enter all information again if > > the pages contain forms like snail-mail tracking, tracking of > > packages, tracking of processes with the local communications state > > agency, following geomagnetic storms, RF-Propagation, blogs etc > > etc. > > > > My time is too valuable to waste it reloading and reloading web > > pages > > again and again. > > It happens with dynamic pages and with static pages. There is no > > consistency at all. > > > > I looked into the FF settings for a setup - but no - there is > > nothing > > about this behaviour. > > > > OK, so which browser will I now use instead of Firefox? > > > > have a nice day > > Eike -- Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP6CGE
