Firefox 3.1 to Offer Improved Session Recovery Tools
Firefox 3.1 will introduce a small, but potentially very useful new feature — selective session restore. Currently in Firefox when the browser crashes and restarts it offers to either start a completely clean session or reopen any tabs and windows that were open before the crash.
But what if you know one of those windows caused the crash? Currently your only option is to lose all your windows just to stop the one crasher. Firefox 3.1 will have a much smarter option — a dialog window that allows you to choose which windows and tabs to re-open.
It may not be quite as cool as Chrome’s isolated tab feature, which prevents any one tab from crashing the others, but it’s definitely better than losing dozens of open tabs just to stop one from crashing your browser.
The dialog box you’ll see when Firefox 3.1 relaunches also gives you the option to disable plugins, if you think the crash was caused by a misbehaving add-on.
If you’d like to see the new feature in action, it’s available in the latest nightly builds. Otherwise, we expect it to be available in beta 1 which should be released later this week or early next.
[via Mozilla Links]
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