jmp1963
Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:26:02 pm
My first post so please be gentle with me!
I installed Zorin 8 64bit a few days ago and am pleasantly surprised by the advances that have been made in user friendliness in many of the Linux distros. Well done to the team! I grew up on BASIC, Z80 Assembly, DOS (from about 5.0) and then Windows (all incarnations up to 7). A couple of my PCs are still on XP and as you all know end-of-life is upon us, hence the switch (dual boot at the moment) to Zorin. Background over - on to my problem.
Whilst setting up one of the PCs to look, feel and act similarly under both OS's I installed Firefox and a few other programs such as XBMC and began to customise Zorin. I obviously had several tabs open whilst reading up and was dismayed to find that they all kept disappearing with no session to restore even though I had told Firefox to restore tabs and groups upon restarting (and no, I hadn't instructed it to clear any history etc!). I installed session manager that dutifully informed me that Firefox hadn't shut down properly but I knew it hadn't actually crashed. It was then that it occured to me that it happened every time if I rebooted or shut down the PC without closing Firefox first. I then tested it with XBMC with the same result. Is this normal behaviour? Is anyone else experiencing this?
I know that historically it is safest to close any programs manually before shutting down the OS so as to avoid data loss but after years of Windows use and being able to simply shut the PC down and letting it take care of any open programs it will be a hard habit to break particularly for other members of the family.
My specs are: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ × 2, 2Gb RAM, Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 (Radeon HD 4200), 128Gb Hard Drive.
I've used Software updater which informs me I am up to date - any ideas anybody?
JMP
I installed Zorin 8 64bit a few days ago and am pleasantly surprised by the advances that have been made in user friendliness in many of the Linux distros. Well done to the team! I grew up on BASIC, Z80 Assembly, DOS (from about 5.0) and then Windows (all incarnations up to 7). A couple of my PCs are still on XP and as you all know end-of-life is upon us, hence the switch (dual boot at the moment) to Zorin. Background over - on to my problem.
Whilst setting up one of the PCs to look, feel and act similarly under both OS's I installed Firefox and a few other programs such as XBMC and began to customise Zorin. I obviously had several tabs open whilst reading up and was dismayed to find that they all kept disappearing with no session to restore even though I had told Firefox to restore tabs and groups upon restarting (and no, I hadn't instructed it to clear any history etc!). I installed session manager that dutifully informed me that Firefox hadn't shut down properly but I knew it hadn't actually crashed. It was then that it occured to me that it happened every time if I rebooted or shut down the PC without closing Firefox first. I then tested it with XBMC with the same result. Is this normal behaviour? Is anyone else experiencing this?
I know that historically it is safest to close any programs manually before shutting down the OS so as to avoid data loss but after years of Windows use and being able to simply shut the PC down and letting it take care of any open programs it will be a hard habit to break particularly for other members of the family.
My specs are: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ × 2, 2Gb RAM, Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 (Radeon HD 4200), 128Gb Hard Drive.
I've used Software updater which informs me I am up to date - any ideas anybody?
JMP
I too have noticed similar behaviour with Firefox. I do have it installed because it is quicker at somethings but it has been slow to load pages (27.0.1) and so I have returned to my trusty Opera 12.16 - which resumes where you left off and has a nice 'clone tab' facility which 'Firefox' does not have - a great help for my moderating work!