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Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4
If you've used Firefox 4 and Panorama, you might have noticed that Mozilla's new browser doesn't always save your tab groupings when you close the browser -- a bit of a pain, if you spend a long time setting up the perfect groups! This is tied into the removal of the 'Save and Quit' dialog box -- and enabling Panorama tab group saving is just a matter of re-enabling the Save and Quit dialog.
Open a new tab and head to about:config. Click through the warning and type 'quit' into the filter box. Double click browser.showQuitWarning to change its value to true (see image after the break). That's it -- now you'll have the option of saving your tabs, and thus tab groups, when you close Firefox.
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Subscribe to commentsNakul SharmaApr 4th 2011 11:41AM
if you dont do this and quit the normal way, there is a "Restore session" button when you start up firefox next time. (i think it requires default start page though)
jdlygaApr 4th 2011 12:12PM
Panorama is a nice idea, but it's not implemented well yet. It's too slow, the previews are too blurry and low resolution, the window comes up way too small, and the animations are unnecessary.
Sebastian AnthonyApr 4th 2011 12:38PM
@jdlyga I think the resolution thing might be fixed -- or at least, the latest version of Panorama in the release version of FF4 seems to be pretty sharp.
HitmakerApr 4th 2011 4:00PM
@jdlyga If you dislike the animations, you can turn those off in about:config: browser.panorama.animate_zoom = false
Dan LarsonApr 4th 2011 12:12PM
I just have Firefox set up to always re-open my tabs from last time instead of a home page on start up. That behavior automatically saves tab groups as well.
Sebastian AnthonyApr 4th 2011 12:38PM
@Dan Larson Yeah, I have that too!
DeanoApr 5th 2011 6:55AM
@Dan Larson Same here. Though I noticed that it would randomly forget my tab groups in the beta builds.
Loving tab groups - it makes using websites very intuitive and quick. There's something about having that overall navigation displayed visually that just makes things feel easier to deal with. I can have a group to remind me to review/read certain pages for example and useful reference sites open elsewhere.
And it does solve the problem, that I have sometimes, of not being able to remember a site name. Believe me when you get to middle-age this does happen :)
JeffreyApr 4th 2011 12:44PM
Yeah, this is one of the first things I didn't after upgrading. I used the save tabs feature extensively and noticed immediately that it didn't give me the save tabs option in close dialog and decided I better have that before closing.
NishchitaApr 6th 2011 6:37AM
I have 2 groups made, for personal browsing and official browsing. I close Firefox and re-open it & my groups are gone. I did this config change but my groups are still not getting saved. Only if I pin the tabs as app tabs, I can get them back. Otherwise both my tabs & my groups are gone! Any help on this?
Sebastian AnthonyApr 6th 2011 4:27AM
@Nishchita Sounds odd. Perhaps you selected 'do not save my tabs' and 'do not show me this again' from a previous dialog box?
There's probably an about:config setting you can change -- but you'll have to do some Googling to find out what it is :)
nishchitaApr 6th 2011 6:34AM
Hey Sebastian, I checked on the Options->tabs tab, the "Warn me when Closing Multiple tabs" was checked.
I found a simpler solution! Go to Options->General tab->When Firefox Starts->From the Drop Down select the "Show my Windows and Tabs from last time". This saves both my app tabs as well as groups on restarting Firefox!