[ubuntu-za] Firefox status

[Craig A. Adams]

Hi Bill,

Whilst not addressing your issue but attacking the symptom, have you
tried Google Browser Sync?

This tool allows you to sync your cookies, passwords, bookmarks, history
and sessions across multiple machines, platforms etc. The cost is a loss
of some privacy to Google.

Kindest Regards

Craig A. Adams

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 08:35 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
> Forgive me - I know there are better forums (fora?) for this question
> but it is more of a comment that a question perhaps.
> 
> One of the things that I love about my Ubuntu system (I am not sure if
> it is a Linux feature or a Gnome feature) is the way that I can say
> "Preserve desktop status" and, after, turning the machine off and coming
> back a week later, I am presented with the desktop exactly as I left it.
> Well nearly, because Firefox insists that it can't do it and I have to
> agree that it should close before my machine will shut down.
> 
> But the trouble is that Firefox does do it and does it brilliantly -
> even under Windows (which I ashamedly admit that I still run for work
> purposes). As soon as I re-boot and initiate Firefox it asks me do I
> want to recover the previous session and then it recovers it perfectly.
> 
> How can I convince my system that I know perfectly well that some
> applications are not set up to survive a re-boot (even if Firefox is not
> one of them, Lyx is) and that it does not need to ask me a redundant
> question every day?
> 
> Bill
> 
>