How To Save All Open Websites in Firefox When It’s Time to Call It a Day
Imagine a situation where are you have a dozen different websites open inside Firefox and suddenly your wife walks in saying - "Let’s go out for dinner and then see a movie."
That’s an offer you can’t refuse but before shutting down the computer, you would like to save a list of all websites that are currently open in Firefox. Here are some suggestion on how to achieve this?
Option 1. Press Ctrl+Shift+D or go to Bookmarks and select "Bookmark all Tabs". This will save all the open tabs into one folder and you can resume surfing the next day by select "Open All in Tabs" from the bookmark folder.
Bonus Tip: Name this folder something like "Feb25" or "022508" so it becomes easy for you to guess the date from the folder name itself.
Option 2. Send Tab URLs - This extension helps you send URLs of all open tabs to any other email address tabs using your default email program - it could be Gmail, Microsoft Outlook or anything else. Very handy if you are working from home and need to access the same websites from office the next day.
If you don’t want email, use Tab URL Copier to copy URLs of all open tabs to the clipboard and paste them inside any note taking software like Google Notebook.
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Option 3. Google Browser Sync - If you have a Google Account and work across computers, this Firefox add-in from Google is a perfect way to save your Firefox tabs and open windows. Unfortunately, Google Browser Sync is not supported on Firefox 3.
Option 4. Session Manager - This is probably the most popular solution for save your browser session in Firefox. It will even restore your windows and tabs incase your browser crashes.
Firefox, even without any extensions, will prompt your save the tabs if you decide to quit the browser when multiple tabs are open. This sounds like a good idea but if you are sharing the computer with other family members, you run the risk of losing work if someone else logs in the next day before you do.
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The best thing is, firefox itself stores the urls when you want to quit today.
When I open lots of tabs and want to quit the browser without loosing all that urls.
I just end the process of firefox and start it again whenever I want.It loads all the website I left last time.
There is one more trick to do it. Kill firefox.exe from task manager in a ungraceful manner and by default, firefox will save the session. Next time you launch the firefox, it will prompt you to “Restore previous session” or “start new session” . Choose to restore previous session. And you are done !!!!
Thats it. It saves even the cokkies, so you will remain logined into google accounts etc.
very handy tips thanks amit
Or smply use Opera Or IE which give you a option to open the same pages the next time you open the browser.
I belive this is much simple.
i knew the option 1, but the rest of them are new to me.
The approach i use is to end the firefox process, so whenever you restart the forefox, it will prompt a message whether you want to restart a previous session or want to start a new session.
People who are working on desktop without UPS may know this as whenever there is a power outage, forefox asks for the session prompt when you restart firefox next time. It seems that forefix saves the current open window information periodically.
Nice post Amit. I thought i will let you know what i do in such a situation. I do an abrupt quit using task manager and the next time i open firefox it prompts for an session restore. Thats how i survive. :)
ooops… just now rad others comments. looks like i am not the Columbus who is doing that… Lots of people are dependent on the sessions restore.
I wish i can contribute some code and add a feature to save the current session and quit Firefox. Rather an addon will do…
Lol, you guys use system restore whereas there is an
inbuilt feature in firefox which allows us to do this. simply go to tools > options > main and in the startup area in ‘when firefox starts’ select ’show my windows and tabs from the last time’ and its done!