[geeks] Firefox regression...

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
" 
" On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:51:08PM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
" 
" > i presume you mean so that ff will ask if you want to restore your
" > last session, when you next start it?
" 
" Yes.
"  
" > kill -9 is overkill for that, if you'll pardon the expression.
" > ordinary kill does it too.
" 
" Ordinary kill causes FF2 to ask if I'm sure I want to quit with so many
" tabs open.  If I say yes, it quits without saving them.  If I say no, it
" doesn't quit.

this is on osx?  my experience comes from s8 on sparc; i've often
killed and restarted ff when it hangs, so i don't lose all the tabs i
have open.

i've also discovered that when ff gets bloated and piggy that opening
a new -window- then killing the first -window- restores sanity without
having to completely restart ff.  i now routinely open a new window
when i'm going to do something i know will be piggy, like ebay, so i
can kill it afterward.

" On OSX, if I chose to reboot the system, it send a kill signal to
" Firefox, and would then abort the reboot if I didn't answer the question
" in a timely manner, or if I said No to FF2's question.  If I said Yes,
" the reboot would go through, but the tabs would be lost.

i've seen this on my imac, osx 10.3.  odd that ff behaves differently
on this supposedly-unixy system...

i wonder what sig 'force quit' sends?  probably -9.
--
my deadrat linux system also just kills ff when it shuts down.
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