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[galaxor]

Hi. I wish edbrowse had a feature like firefox's ability to save your tabs. I want to be able to turn off the computer and next time I bring up edbrowse, it's got all my sessions the same way I left them.

I was thinking that it would be sufficient to save the filenames (urls) and cursor positions of the full stack of each session to a file. Firefox also saves a cached version of the page, but that's probably not necessary.

Perhaps the default behavior to start edbrowse would be to not re-load the sessions, but there could be a command-line argument to specify a session file to load. And a way in .ebrc to set a default file to load, and to change the default to be loading the session file.

The session file should be updated while you use edbrowse, so that if the power plug gets pulled, you can start back from where you were.

Would these be welcome features? I can try to work on them.

[eklhad]

An autosave / recover feature is probably not a high priority for us - most of us on Linux, which does not crash, and yes I've seen edbrowse seg fault but again not that often. Though if we did it would probably be the urls and cursor locations, which wouldn't be too hard, as you say, but don't confuse that with autosave in an editor, to retrieve the document you are working on. IDK

Firefox also saves a cached version of the page,

And we do that too, as of yesterday. :)

I can try to work on them.

We could use all the help we could get. 3 spare time programmers can only do so much. Send along a patch or design ideas - probably on our development mailing list. Each user has a temp directory to store things in, ebUserDir Karl Dahlke