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Firefox does this when shutting down and starting back up. Tabs get "frozen" and "thawed" upon activation after startup.

This is superior to bookmarks, as the server respose is saved along with scroll position etc.

I've long wished I could actively trigger this similar to making a bookmark. Bonus if they saved some embeddings too so I could search the contents of the saved pages.

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It also shows that people want transient bookmarks. They bookmark a few things they care about, but the rest is bookmarks for the next week or month, then they don't need it anymore.

Well sometimes I kill the browser (Firefox, Chrome) rather than closing it because upon starting it again it will automatically recreate the tabs. Where otherwise I lose everything.

And I do keep a text file with interesting links, so I don't have to keep 100+ tabs open. Seems much easier to me to skimp through a text file looking for something I remembered seeing than using bookmarks.

There's an extension called "Tab Session Manager". Give it a look. It allows you to save, edit sync sessions, and name them.

It's good.

Yeah I lost my sessions a few times (crashes and just randomly), been using this plugin since. Worked great.

You can toggle the setting to do it even if you close your browser the normal way: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tab...

If you close it normally, restart it, and then do "reopen last closed tab" (cmd/ctrl+shift+t) it will open the entire last window you had open. Press multiple times to open all previous windows.

lol what? Every Firefox tab I’ve ever switched to after restarting has done a full, across-the-wire reload.

Same here. This is only on one laptop that I use for rubbish but the full reload takes a few minutes.

Might be OS dependant? My Firefox does not reload the page, it's just "there". I have to refresh to get an update of the page (I use it for forums).

I'm on Windows if that makes any difference.

I think it rather depends on the page (some pages with lots of dynamically generated content might mark themselves as no-cache/no-store), and in any case if you don't use a tab long enough, sooner or later it'll be evicted from the browser cache.

Maybe, just running on bog standard Linux Mint. Nothing fancy.

cache_control http header of the site

No. Every site, even HN and static sites.

Remember, we’re taking about a Firefox restart, not the back button.

Sites like Facebook or Reddit do indeed do a full reload, but most sites I frequent do not. Nice to be able to pick up where I left. If I want updated content I just hit F5.

We’re talking about coming from a restart, not the back button.

Yes, that's what I was talking about too. Like I said I have to hit F5 to get updated content after a restart on most sites.

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