No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world Lupo @lemmy.world 3w ago

When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session.

I can't imagine life without it, but I know there was a beforfore time.

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I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.

So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.
- I had forgotten about intentionally inducing crashes. Fun times.
- I remember doing similar. I would intentionally kill my browser/computer without gracefully shutting down the browser. Literally everything else I would go and shut down normally, browser needed to be crashed.
For Firefox, Session Restore came in version 2 back in 2006 - Wikipedia

I'm not sure when Internet Explorer added the feature, but they removed the automatic restore in version 8 and made it manual in 2009 - Wikipedia. I feel like Internet Explorer 6 had this feature, but I can't remember now.

Not sure when/if older browsers like Netscape Navigator had this feature.
- back in 2006
  
  My "two decades" guess wasn't too far from that, then.
Imagine the web without cookies man. There was nothing to remember, just caching pictures and history.
I've learned that it first came about as an explicit feature around 2006, I was not awake as a proper human at this point.

Regarding the privacy concerns.

Just now, my friend used her google photos AI to search for photos of me and my dead cat using my name.

I've come to accept that my information is readily available and that I am but a humble fish apart of a school surrounded by sharks, playing a numbers game for survival.
- I was not awake as a proper human
  
  I like this phrase
Opera 9.0 released June 20th 2006
That a Chrome thing? Feels like a Chrome thing.

We used to actually USE bookmarks, man. It was dark.
the Voyager lemmy app needs this SO bad. i want to google up something before i comment and then poof the whole post is gone.
- That sounds more like your phone is agressively shutting apps down to save memory and energy. Some brands are known to do this more than others. You should be able to tell your phone not to close that app when on the background.
  
  its not the shutting apps thats the problem its the amnesia.
- That might be something with voyager, I agree with the other person that it sounds like the device itself is closing the app due to some sort of battery setting, but if it's not that then it's something at least. I've tried a handful of different lemmy clients now currently using eternity and none of them did what you were describing there.
  
  That or operator error(less likely) such as using the back button to go back to the home screen instead of using the home button or something simple like that
  
  i have several other apps like firefox that reopen where i left off just fine. i wonder what other people who use voyager experience?
i seem to recall around the same time they introduced tabs.. around 2007-2010 maybe
Tbh I despise it, I want a fresh start every time
- You know you can turn it off too, right?
  
  Yeah I think it’s an annoying default tho
Ironically, I prefer browsers that specifically do not do this.

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