Best Browser: Crash and Recovery

sylvangale

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I was wondering what other browsers or modifications are out there that helps to alleviate the stress of a browser crash.

While I absolutely love Firefox vs plain Jane IE I am finding Firefox a little too crash prone and it is incredibly frusrating when you open your 8th news tab and it crashes.

I have since taken a liking to Avant Browser which gives me tabbed browsing, but also will remember what pages were open prior to a crash so that it opens right up to where I was before. [edit: There is a FireFox extension called "Session Saver" that lets FireFox do the same thing. Anyone know of any other goodies?

What browser and crash recovery features are available for your browser make it the best?
 

notfred

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I can't remember the last time firefox crashed on me.... so I don't worry about crash recovery features. IMO, if browser developers are working hard on crash recovery features, they're focusing thier talents in the wrong place.
 

sylvangale

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I guess because I make HEAVY use of tabbed browsing by having more than a dozen news sources open at one time (my.yahoo) and opening 30 tabs in a minute that I experience a lot of crashing. While such heavy tabbing is not the norm, it's very convenient till one of those tabbed openings crashes your browser.

 

sylvangale

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Thank you Bersl!!!

Never thought there was an extension for saving your sessions. I found an unrated extension called "session saver". Forced FireFox to end task and it remembered my sessions! Can't wait to see how it works in a "real" crash situation.

Now FireFox is still my number 1. :eek:p

 

sylvangale

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Hmm... I was going to add an opinion to "Session Saver" on Mozilla Update, but I don't see an option to rate it in anyway... how do you do rate things there?

This is where it is: (or you can go Tool>Extensions>Get More>"Search for session saver")
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/e....0&os=Windows&category=Tabbed Browsing&id=436

BTW here's it's description:
SessionSaver will auto-track and restore your browser -exactly- as you left it -- every startup, every time. Not even a crash can phase it: window-positions, tab-histories, cookies + scrolling -- all saved. It has a host of expert options, including session-storage, which allow a high degree of flexibility. Session-removal: right or shift-click in the menu. 'Expert' prefs: click "Simple" in the settings-pane.

Suppresses the "warn when closing multiple-tabs" for File > Exit. Hides the file-menu items by default.
 

bootymac

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The only time FF crashes on me is when I open PDF files, and it's mostly because I never updated Adobe Acrobat
 

Nothinman

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While such heavy tabbing is not the norm, it's very convenient till one of those tabbed openings crashes your browser.

I routinely have 4 windows open with ~15 tabs each and Galeon never crashes on me.

If you're really seeing frequent crashes, it's a bug, report it.
 

Malak

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Opera automatically saves a session if it crashes or your system crashes, and then next time you launch it, it will ask if you want to continue where you left off. However, if you use Opera you are probably less likely to have it crash anyway.
 

Yossarian

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yeah opera rocks in this respect. if it exits prematurely (crash or shutting down the computer w/o closing opera first) you get "resume last session?". one click and you're back where you left off.
 

sylvangale

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I certainly do report crashes when they happen. I didn't realize Firefox was really supposed to be uber-stable. Probably conflicting with an open app.

I have noticed a flaw with "Session Saver" in FireFox. I thought it would be safe to disable the "are you sure you want to close the window when you have multiple tabs open" since Session Saver will remember those open tabs, but it looks like it WILL NOT remember your sessions if you have something downloading and you close a window with multiple tabs unintentionally. So don't disable that option... otherwise I'm happier with Firefox for now.

(Now if someone would be kind enough to message me on where I can re-enable the option to warn before closing windows... that would be really great... as I search for it now *doh!*) edit: Found it!