Business - Written by Alan Majer on Friday, November 16, 2007 10:54 - 6 Comments
Firefox killer app
My computer crashes a bit more than I’d like it to. Perhaps it’s the fact I often have 20+ browser pages at any given moment, or maybe it’s a hardware/OS problem. But the result is that I often lose valuable material I’m working on before I have the chance to go through it.
Firefox has changed all that with it’s ability to “restore” all the pages you had up in your browser after your OS crashes (see the magic button below). Now that’s a killer app! I can safely say that firefox saves me a few hours of time every week with this feature. Sure, javascript/Ajax is nice for interactivity, multi-tabbed browsing is pretty handy too – but I take my hat off to the inventor of the “restore” feature. “Thank you firefox!!”
6 Comments
Imran
Same feature on FLOCK which is for me the Web 2.0 version of browsers.
Chris
Opera has had this feature since the year 2000…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_of_the_Opera_Internet_suite#Sessions
Alan Majer
Chris, I didn’t know Opera had that feature – it would’ve probably become my primary browser if I had.
Imran, like you, I still find my browser crashes more than it used to, but perhaps it’s because I have a lot more browser sessions open these days. That said, I also find that on a PC my OS tends crash more than the browser itself.
Chris
Alan, it is never too late 
“I’m not alone in this. Colleagues and friends report similar problems
with Safari/Mac, IE7/Vista, Firefox/Mac. I’ve even checked with a friend
that runs the helpdesk for a large firm: reported problems with browsers
are up. The only one who seems blissfully unaffected is the lone Opera
nerd in my office. He just keeps chugging along with what seem like 200
open tabs.”
This feature has saved me from losing my work and my momentum through many crashes!
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Restore is nice in those situations. But Firefox didn’t use to crash like that.