- From: Chris Beall <Chris_Beall@prodigy.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:05:19 -0400
- To: Juan Lanus <juan.lanus@gmail.com>
- CC: fwang@inrialpes.fr, www-amaya@w3.org
Juan Lanus wrote: > Hi fwang, > > It's usual to have more than one open document in Amaya at a given time. > And it's also usual to work for several days on the same set of > documents. > > Firefox has a nice feature for users who do so, namely the "Save > session" and "quick restart" extensions. > These useful features let a user exit a session and have it reopened > upon browser restart, no matter how many windows and tabs were there. > > IMO Amaya is half way of having something like this because of it's > crash recover feature. > > Firefox apparently saves window information (geometry, position) and > tab URIs. > > The restart feature you filed in the wish list on behalf of John > Stumbles might well be the opportunity to consider the session saving > and restoring I'm suggesting. > A nicety (not in Firefox) would be sort of "named sessions" to enable > clustering of documents one works with. The Firefox bookmark function allows you to "save all tabs". The entry this creates can be used to open any of the saved tabs individually or the entire saved set. > This would add an "Open document set" menu item and "session name" > input element somewhere in the session saving UC. > > Firefox seems to save the session data upon crashing, or preventively > when changes happen. If it didn't end happily then it offers the user > to recover the session as it was when the crash happened. > -- > Juan Lanus > >
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