firefox-1.0-2.fc3 Given how complicated web browsers are and the wide variety of input they have to handle, they often crash. Which is particularly annoying if you, like me, usually have a large number of tabs or windows open which contain a lot of state related to your current or future tasks. My web browser also sometimes dies when my laptop battery konks out, if I accidentally crash my X server, if I trip on my power cord, lean on the power button, or after any of a number of minor computing tragedies. One of the best-ever features of Galeon is that upon startup after a crash or unclean shutdown, it offers the user the chance to restore their previous session. It does this by simply recording open tabs and windows in a file. When the browser exits normally, the file is deleted or empty. So if the file exists on startup, Galeon knows it died unexpectedly, and can restore state more or less as it was before the interruption. Everyone deserves a web browser with this feature. It has saved me annoyance and consternation and data loss sooo many times. I hope that it will either be incorporated into Firefox or a browser that does have this feature will be chosen as the default for Fedora. Thanks for reading, Beland
AFAIK upstream Firefox does not have this feature, thus Fedora cannot do it. Request this feature upstream at bugzilla.mozilla.org.
Okey...for the record, it's already been requested: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159357
This has been implemented in Firefox 2, which is included in Fedora 7. (Yay!)