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Restore a previous session

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alweiss
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OK, here's what I want to do: I open a Firefox session then open a few different sites in different tabs. Now, I want to save this set of tabs. Not as my home page but just as something I want to restore later.

Example: This is about real estate. So I want to open a listing, then a map, then an article about the location, etc. I then want to save all this, close everything, open up another set of tabs about another location and save this one. Then next week, I want to reopen the complete set of tabs that I saved.

OK, here's what I want to do: I open a Firefox session then open a few different sites in different tabs. Now, I want to save this set of tabs. Not as my home page but just as something I want to restore later. Example: This is about real estate. So I want to open a listing, then a map, then an article about the location, etc. I then want to save all this, close everything, open up another set of tabs about another location and save this one. Then next week, I want to reopen the complete set of tabs that I saved.

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mattcamp
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There's a problem with all this idea, i.e. your session with the website will expire after a certain amount of time, regardless of the browser.

Servers kick you off after a certain inactivity period, for security reasons.

alweiss
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I realize that. I don't want to keep the sites open, I just want to return to them as if I had clicked on a bunch of bookmarks. Basically, that's what I want to do: Save and then open a set of bookmarks at one time. I could create a set of bookmark folders, bookmark each tab into that folder, then later open the folder and restore each bookmark one by one.

mattcamp
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I think you can do this. I honestly use online bookmarking applications, organized by tags, such as diigo

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