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[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just discovered that you can pin tabs, which means that they are always loaded when you open firefox. This is a game changer for me. Whenever I open firefox, all my most visited tabs are automatically loaded and there's no loading time anymore. Of course I still need rules for cookie autodelete but it's awesome!

e.g. you can create a shortcut for about:config

[-] auchschonda@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago

However, they disappear and are not loaded anymore if you have multiple Firefox windows open and the window with the pinned tabs is not the last Firefox window one you close...

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

A solution for this is to go to the menu and "Quit Firefox" or something like that. That closes all the windows at once, and they all come back

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I run into this sometimes. Just need to be careful to use Ctrl-q to close all windows rather than closing them one-by-one.

[-] LFR@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

In case you didn't know, you can restore windows under History-->Recently closed windows.

[-] flux@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

The pins are part of the window, so.. You can access old closed windows through the history menu, which I believe works after starting a new session after quitting it.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

That's unfortunate. I'm running firefox as flatpak and the problem is not there

[-] auchschonda@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

How strange. Thought this is a general issue or 'feature'. Maybe you close it FF differently as me? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1291164

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Good question, alt+F4 ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] Vincent@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

It works great in combination with the keyboard shortcuts for opening the first, second, ... eighth tab, which is Alt+1 (or +2, +3, etc.) for me, but I think is Ctrl or Cmd instead of Alt on other OS's.

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

nice! but I hate that I cycle through tabs with CTRL and have to switch to Alt for pins.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago

Lovely feature, been using it for years ๐Ÿ‘Œ I have my calendar, email, homeassistant and zabbix pinned

They also don't move when the normal tab bar becomes scrollable due to too many tabs open, which is pretty neat IMO

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