New Feature: Reader Tip of the Week (with a Bonus Firefox Session Management Tip)

Do you have a great tip for making web working more productive, more profitable, more fun? Share it with the Web Worker Daily readers. Mail your tech and other tips and hacks to tips@webworkerdaily.com. Be sure to include your blog or website address if you’d like us to link to it. We’ll publish our favorite tip each week.

To get started, I’ll share a tip for Firefox users. Do you scratch your head when someone talks about Firefox 2.0’s session management? This feature allows you to launch Firefox with the same set of tabs and windows that you had when you last exited. It’s not obvious how to access it though — Firefox doesn’t have any menu options like “Save Session” or “Restore Session.”

You enable it from the Options (Tools > Options… on Windows) or Preferences window (Firefox > Preferences… on OS X or Edit > Preferences… on Linux). On the Main tab of the Options/Preferences window, choose “Show my windows and tabs from last time” in the “When Firefox starts” dropdown.

Firefox preferences

If that’s not enough control for you, try a Firefox add-on like Permatabs, which allows you to keep specific tabs around between sessions, or Tab Mix Plus, which offers comprehensive session and tab management capabilities.

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