Kaboom!
I'm a big "tab" fan when it comes to web browsers. Sadly, my web browsers don't seem to think as much of me; In the past year, I've tried IE (AIEEE!), Safari (the Beta was great, 1.0-->has been v. unstable), and I'm now ensconced in Firefox, which has the distinction of being the least craptacular browser I've yet found.
Having said that, I'm still exasperated at having lost all of my open tabs last night after a crash. Even with the Session Saver extension installed, there's no guarantee of recovering all my tabs upon relaunch (SS is designed for quits rather than crashes.)
So here's my challenge to the browser developers: Admit that your browser crashes (they all do, after all) and add some sort of "tab snapshot" feature that saves your tabs every 5 mins or so in case of a crash. I'm offering this suggestion to them free-of-charge, though God knows some compensation for years of mental anguish and tearing-of-hair would be nice...
1 Comments:
I find Opera's (www.opera.com) tabbed browsing more consistent than Firefox's (though I'd need to spend more time with Firefox before I'd become evangelical about it). Unregistered Opera has an ad bar, but if you set it to the Google text ads option it's extremely easy to disregard (and may even be useful.)
If you're stuck with IE for any reason, or actually like it, Avant Browser (www.avantbrowser.com) is a free shell which turns IE into a tabbed browser as well as having a metric buttload of other nice features.
Tab recovery is built in to Opera and Avant. In the interest of a healthy browser market I say "go Firefox" but between Opera and Avant I already have my bases covered.
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