Lupo@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoWhen did browsers start being able to remember your previous session.message-squaremessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up154arrow-down1message-squareWhen did browsers start being able to remember your previous session.Lupo@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·22 days agoI remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs. So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·22 days agoI had forgotten about intentionally inducing crashes. Fun times.
minus-squareeronth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoI remember doing similar. I would intentionally kill my browser/computer without gracefully shutting down the browser. Literally everything else I would go and shut down normally, browser needed to be crashed.
I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.
So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.
I had forgotten about intentionally inducing crashes. Fun times.
I remember doing similar. I would intentionally kill my browser/computer without gracefully shutting down the browser. Literally everything else I would go and shut down normally, browser needed to be crashed.