If this behavior were changed I'd change it back locally with a pref or addon or something. I can't think of a scenario where I want firefox to intentionally forget state for me, let alone on process exit. There are lots of reasons to exit (powering off to install windows updates, restarting FF to install an addon or new browser update, etc.). If I actually want my history to be forgotten, I can turn that on in preferences, and it will *actually forget* my history.
My sessionstore is sitting around a megabyte, but I'm keeping all these tabs around on purpose. If my sessionstore got nuked periodically on exit I'd just have to find some other way to hang onto these tabs, whether it's panorama tab groups or bookmarks or something. This way is most convenient since I go back and revisit a lot of these tabs periodically and perform navigation, changing the URL - forum/mailing list threads related to work topics, short stories published online, etc. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:42 PM, <danki...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... so I now want to start the discussion with my idea, that ss.js should >> forget the most things when Firefox gets closed manual by the user, >> originally posted here: >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810932#c22 >> >> So what do others / the developers think about this ??? > > I disagree. > > I often restart FF because of memory use bloat - a restart cleans up that > memory use somewhat. When I do that I expect all my history for each tab to > be retained, and to be able to undo closed tabs. > > I might also need to reboot, and so a manual shutdown would not change the > fact that I'd want all these things retained. > > Or I might have to restart because I installed an add-on, etc... > > Personally, I'm not sure sessionstore.js is the big problem. I currently > have 38 tabs, most not loaded. My session store size is 131,908 bytes > according to about:sessionstore, yet my Windows Task Manager reports > ~450,000K of Mem Usage, and a VM size of ~500,000K. Presumably because of > add-ons I have installed and other FF bloat? It is not uncommon for me to > have over 100 tabs, and my wife has had close to 1000 (obviously not fully > loaded). I'd say she qualifies as a power user. ;^) > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
