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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by NoodleIncident on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:07PM (#19306570)
If I want notifications from a tab, I pin it. I think that pinned tabs are already a bit more aggressive about keeping that website "active", and it's always on the tab bar no matter how far you scroll. So for my use case at least, the suspender just has to not suspend any pinned tabs.
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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by lowercased on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:37PM (#19307906)
> I think that pinned tabs are already a bit more aggressive about keeping that website "active"

Just not... around.

Routinely, after both clean shutdowns and system crashes, firefox just loses all my pinned tabs. It's the primary thing that keeps me from using firefox as a default all the time. There's weird 'restore last session' and folder searching you can do to try to maybe 'recover' some, sometimes, but... WTH? I'm pinning things - I want them around. If I didn't want them restored on browser launch, I wouldn't 'pin' them. Unless pinning is intended to be transitory, and I just missed the memo?

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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by eythian on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:09AM (#19310245)
Never had it lose them for me in an extremely long time. Restore last session has always happily recovered them too, if necessary.
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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by lowercased on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:40AM (#19310774)
sometimes 'restore last session' doesn't even come up when loading up. :/
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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by NoodleIncident on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:31PM (#19402039)
It might be too late for you to see this, but this is an option in the hamburger menu, even if no pop-up window shows up when you start Firefox.
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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by Moru on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:21AM (#19308741)
I'm using pining many years and they have been persistent so far. Crashing and losing all tabs is a risk though, but it was a long time ago.
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