Done! Just goes to show, should “play” a bit more before commenting on things.

What used to happen was this:

* Have all the research done for a piece of an evening
* Close the laptop — sending it into hibernate mode, all apps, tabs, etc. preserved
* Overnight, laptop spontaneously comes out of hibernation to download and apply Windows Vista updates, then restarts itself
* I come along the next morning and feel like throwing said laptop out the nearest window

Of course, I told it to update itself at 3am on a Wednesday, or whatever it is… so it’s my own fault really. Now at least FF can come to the rescue. Yipee!

Go to Preferences -> Main -> When Firefox starts:

and choose “Show my windows and tabs from last time”

Now if you quit out of FF (or it crashes) everything comes back up on FF re-start!

I was delighted to see that something I’ve been wishing for since the advent of tabbed browsing has finally been implemented… namely the ability to save all your open tabs on closing the browser. Now you can resume where you left off — but unfortunately it only works when you close the last Firefox window.

When I’m working I tend to have multiple browser windows open, each sporting multiple tabs on a particular topic. It would be handy if there was some way to save all of them.

I might have to revert back to the earlier version until a few of the more popular extensions are updated… but this certainly seems a worthy upgrade.