OK, found something here product of my Nth+1 emergency shutdown due to power blackouts

sometimes SeaMonkey nuke my session fine and I have to manually restore my tabs from sessionStore.bak, parsing half a megabyte of JSON one-liner is... meh

BUT!

Today I fired up the error console and found this:

"SessionStore: The session file is invalid: TypeError: this._initialState.windows[0] is undefined"

and indeed in the session fine I find that "windows" is defined to [], that is, a empty array

Restoring sessionStore.json from (the rejected) sessionStore.bak will yield the same error

BUT!

If I pretty-print that JSON blob, remove the empty windows array, and instead rename _closedWindows to just windows, and start again SeaMonkey...

...I get the "We're sorry" prompt to restore my previous session! (the same one I would normally get when I run the browser after a crash or forced kil)

Oh, and now videos are breaking faster than usual (it used to take a few days, now videos stop working after a few hours), but I haven't been able to pinpoint anything on the error console(s)

tomman: session store needs a lot of love

At least I now learned a faster way to restore my borked sessions other than have to fire up a online JSON editor and copy the URLs of 20+ tabs...

will compare a regular sessionStore.json after a clean shutdown

i suggest using Exit after 60 seconds of activity not close each window

what we really need is an extension to put a button that says SAVE SESSION NOW

a kind of save session now extenion

cause that is more clear lol

tomman:

of course tomman you do realize that a "session" is just a hack and is antithetical to the design of a browser and the web until htmlcascadingjavascript5

:D

the web is a pile of bad hacks over bad hacks

so is mozilla

even mozilla of old

we just keep piling yet more bad hacks over it

that has been Computers since the early UNIVAC days

but we USED to have PEOPLE that knew what the fuck these hacks did and why they are there and why they are hacks.. now all the hacks are the developers them selves

shit i dunno if i even WANT to call my self a developer..

I'm a coder

i code stuff

i design infrastructure and systems and processes and and code stuff for em

see, there is your problem: you're applying engineering principles instead of Moving Fast And Breaking Things™ to generate Shareholder Value®

tomman: I tried the pakled lifestyle.. i looked for things, things i need, things to make me go.. to hell with that ima code it.

this is why Boeing can't build airplanes anymore, or why Intel sucks now

well you don't need a glass console to fly an aeroplane

so fuck em

let em take them selves then someone else can build flying machines that are largely reliable again

tank*

technically all modern airplanes have glass cockpits :/

i will have to go intel cause they already have years with LGA and AMD doesn't and my fine motor skills are crap.. also Intel fucks up but AMD is fucking up worse

fly-by-wire was bad enough but glass cockpits are ridiculous

how can someone get a feel for the aircraft if there is no response from the controls

somehow Airbus continues to get this mostly right

well they just need to shut down and reboot

in my experience

no issues

tends to break on the ground not in operation

airbus bootup is fuckin creepy tho

i don't recommend it

i been on 4 airbusses in my life each one had to reboot before take off

likely running windows 3.1

LOL

no, that's Southwest!

and they fly 737s :P

and a french airport few years back

I seriously wonder what else broke in DOMi aside from the xbl binding of course..

cause it might actually be fixable to some degree in central

Windows XP Mozilla "Developers": "Patches? We ain't got no patches. We don't need no patches. I DON'T HAVE TO SHOW YOU ANY STINKIN' PATCHES!"

anyway tomman hope you ain't flyin the frighting smoggy skies any time soon but I am pretty tired so I am gonna vacate the facility.

Good night

and to everyone else too

bloop

nsITobin blub

hi frg_Away what's new?

nsITobin not much. Configuring my new box took longer than expected. Partion setup disliked me first and Linux complained.

last night i started some experimental work on DOM Inspector as a Communicator Component and was working on it .. until i got the bright idea to seek info and any tools that still exist for xbl binding conversion.. which means I went back into matrix.. and now I am just kinda sad and disillusioned.. I'll get over it but my productivity has tanked.

frg_Away: was it some server raid stuff or just being difficult?

nsITobin Acronis goofed with a restore. Put a primary partion into an extended one.

ah acronis.. did they ever get past their Windows XP style?

nsITobin I only use the restore media. It is quite good till 2019. Then it became unusable.

New file format and nothing but problems. Stopped then and still use 2018.

my custom winpe had acronis trueimage and diskdirector AND nearly full explorer based on win7

but it was bios only

nsITobin only use the Linux rescue media

Tomorrow is another day. nighty night

it is frg rest well