New Tab Mix Plus Uses Firefox’s Built-In Session Restore
For awhile I stopped using the Tab Mix Plus Firefox extension because I didn’t like the session restore feature that it had and there was a significant memory leak. It was always unfortunate because once the extension was installed it wouldn’t let me use the session restore feature that was built-into Firefox 2. That’s a thing of the past with the newest version that was just released a few days ago.
The session restore in Firefox 2 will actually bring back all of the Web pages from the cached versions when the browser gets restarted and that includes any forms you were in the process of filling out. So if you were typing an email to someone and the browser crashed, it would automatically retrieve the content when the tabs are restored in the browser. Other session restore extensions don’t do this and will instead re-open all of the tabs (which is what Tab Mix Plus used to do). Not only does that method take longer to load but it also erases all of the form data that you had filled in.
I am happy to say that Tab Mix Plus now offers an option to use the built-in session restore feature that Firefox 2 already offers. They even go as far as to let you change some of the advanced settings that you wouldn’t have touched otherwise. I’m hoping that this will also keep the memory usage at a minimum because that is very important to me. I’ll cross my fingers but it is looking good for the last hour that I have been using it.
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Am loving it so far. Tab Rotation is great
That is pretty cool but I don’t know how much I would actually use it. I have been noticing a few conflicts with the FaviconizeTab extension because Tab Mix Plus likes to resize tabs that I have “shrunk” down.
I would use when am feeling lazy
Never really care for this extension, seemed overly ‘bloated’ to me
. But I am sure there will be some folks over at Go Firefox! who will be thrilled with this new version.
It’s had that functionality for months.
If you’re referring to the session restore functionality that is new. Before it would restore your session, as I mentioned, but it used its own little algorithm to do it. Now it works off of the built-in Firefox 2 feature.
Out of the 37 extensions I have enabled (out of 73!) Tab Mix Plus is the one I would be most loathe to give up, though Firefox 2 has incorporated several of its best features, making less necessary than with 1.5.
Anyway, does anyone know if switching from TMP’s session manager to Firefox 2’s will save or lose my 55 (!) TMP saved sessions?
Yes, You will probably lose your sessions. They each use different storage mechanisms so I doubt that they can be compatible with each other.
I know for a fact you will lose the sessions, because I went through the pain of switching. While the built in session management is better than the past, I still wish it was better. I use Session Manager to be able to save my sessions, but it still needs work in my opinion. Take a look at Maxthon 2 and you would understand, it stores the sessions in an easy to access format, you can open one single tab from a session if you want. No way in Firefox that I know of unless you bookmark all your open tabs. That’s what I do occasionally when I need to.
I think Mozilla is just trying to keep things simple. They implemented a session restore feature so that users could restore their tabs, but they didn’t want to make it so complicated to use that less tech-savvy users would be intimidated.