It's not a bug, it's a feature.Firefox' session restore feature, as its name says, is supposed to restore my session. The whole session. Including the state of tabs, their form data Everything. And this is great.
To reopen the last closed tab in Firefox, right-click on the tab bar and select “Undo Close Tab” from the popup menu. You can also press Ctrl+Shift+T on your keyboard to open the last closed tab. Repeatedly selecting “Undo Close Tab”, or pressing Ctrl+Shift+T will open previously closed tabs in the order they were closed. Firefox' session restore feature, as its name says, is supposed to restore my session. The whole session. Including the state of tabs, their form data Everything. And this is great. This is the goal of session restore. Mac OS X Mountain Lion's applications are now stateful, like on the iPad. The apps now have their state saved at quit and restored at relaunch.
This is the goal of session restore.' S applications are now stateful, like on the iPad. The apps now have their state saved at quit and restored at relaunch. This behaviour of Mac applications is now recommended by.Computer systems will behave more and more like this, and this is a good move. Better get used to it. This can be somewhat disturbing at the beginning, because of our habits. But for newcomers, it is more natural.
It is always a good idea to think of the paper analogy. Let's say I am writing in my notebook, I am in the middle of a sentence, and I suddenly close my notebook and I sleep. Without doing any “Save” action, without even thinking of a “Save” action. Three days later, when I open again my notebook, I find the page exactly as I had left it. This user experience is good.
In computer software, the same user experience is good too, and I expect it. @Celeritas — When I check a box named Remember, I want the site to remember. As always, security harms usability and usability harms security. So in fine the right thing to do depends on the situation and on the user's choice. Is the system the entry control of a CIA bunker or a daily life Web site?
Does the user trust his own computer in his own house? It is good to let the user make his/her informed choice and to respect it. Hence the Remember check box, and the security explanation next to it. Thus, if the user is in a fragile situation, s/he can choose not to be remembered.–Mar 5 '13 at 14:33.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.Firefox' session restore feature, as its name says, is supposed to restore my session. The whole session. Including the state of tabs, their form data Everything. And this is great. This is the goal of session restore.' S applications are now stateful, like on the iPad.
The apps now have their state saved at quit and restored at relaunch. This behaviour of Mac applications is now recommended by.Computer systems will behave more and more like this, and this is a good move.
Better get used to it. This can be somewhat disturbing at the beginning, because of our habits. But for newcomers, it is more natural. It is always a good idea to think of the paper analogy. Let's say I am writing in my notebook, I am in the middle of a sentence, and I suddenly close my notebook and I sleep. Without doing any “Save” action, without even thinking of a “Save” action.
Three days later, when I open again my notebook, I find the page exactly as I had left it. This user experience is good. In computer software, the same user experience is good too, and I expect it. @Celeritas — When I check a box named Remember, I want the site to remember. As always, security harms usability and usability harms security.
So in fine the right thing to do depends on the situation and on the user's choice. Is the system the entry control of a CIA bunker or a daily life Web site? Does the user trust his own computer in his own house? It is good to let the user make his/her informed choice and to respect it.
Hence the Remember check box, and the security explanation next to it. Thus, if the user is in a fragile situation, s/he can choose not to be remembered.–Mar 5 '13 at 14:33.