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no, restart extensions either for loader or regular are for restarting the browser, nothing more than advertised.. it doesn't restore sessions and was never intended to

i don't understand the rational for restoring sessions with restart extensions, why would you restart anyway?

restart is mainly a developer's extension- or at least that was the target when first written- as an easy way to restart when testing macros or ported xpi extensions and see changes introduced.

restart super(loader) was written much later(maybe a year later) when users of loader complained about settings not saved..that version was indeed for regular users to set their changes easily without rebooting the computer or manually closing the loader. again, no save/restore session was intended or found logical at that time.

sessions is a k-plugin even though it's by default installtion, it can very well be disabled by the user. making restart rely on a k-plugin session will put too much unnecessary read code variables on a simple extension meant for for a simple and quick task.

extension like the skin manager do indeed read/fetch many prefs and writes them back according to variables, the result is a significant delay when compared to restart extension... besides the delay due to regular read an wrte to prefs, there is an added delay within the code to ensure write has been complete successfully before launching the browser.

even if automatically restoring sessions is a favourable feature that can be added to restart, the pros vs cons factors favours leaving that specific extension as it is, very simple and fast, a user who wishes to restore a session after a restart can do that manually or they can simply set session to auto open last one without the prompt. naturally, users can always edit the macro or the autoit script to add more customised features to their liking...like restoring sessions or opening specific sites but those added features may not be liked by all users especially when delays accompany such updates, bearing in mind..that some users already use old and slow machines and even if a delay is insignficant on x machine, it can be very annoying on another machine.

so the best restart is what it is now. in 2 steps:
1- closes all windows instances of the browser
2- reopens the browser

the loader is crucial to old computers but i don't think you can easily say what target cpu it's for, they are other factors..like memory, background application..even hd speed. personally i think a properly set 1.2 cpu(clean and doesn't have lots of rubbish running) with adequate ram doesn't really need the loader. loader probably shines on 800mhz(single cpu) and lower.

p.s. restart extension is very special to me (desga knows why) :)[/quote]

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