A Warning for My Forgetfulness -- on Firefox

April 21, 2009 12:43 PM

Is there a way to get Firefox to warn me or ask me if I'm sure about closing a tab or navigating away from a webpage?

I don't want the warnings to always happen because then I will just learn to ignore them. But maybe when I get to a page that I don't want to close willy-nilly, there would be a way to tell Firefox to warn me before I navigate away. Does a Greasemonkey script exist for this? I want it because I often listen to music streaming through a little flash player on a webpage, and I always unthinkingly leave the page.

Thanks.

posted by bluefly to computers & internet (7 comments total)

I don't know of such a script, but have you considered keeping those tabs in their own window, and then minimizing it?
posted by dolface at 12:46 PM on April 21

Previously.
posted by halogen at 12:57 PM on April 21

There is Tab Mix Plus, which allows you to lock tabs using the right-click menu
posted by ddaavviidd at 12:58 PM on April 21

But maybe when I get to a page that I don't want to close willy-nilly, there would be a way to tell Firefox to warn me before I navigate away.

The way this is phrased, it sounds like you're asking Firefox to figure out what you want to do or to predict your behavior and stop you from performing that behavior before you know what you want to do. That's probably not going to happen.

What I would suggest is that you lock a tab that you don't want to close - the aforementioned TMP will take care of this for you.
posted by pdb at 1:23 PM on April 21

Alternatively you could get friendly with the magic of shift+alt+t.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 1:28 PM on April 21

The way this is phrased, it sounds like you're asking Firefox to figure out what you want to do or to predict your behavior and stop you from performing that behavior before you know what you want to do. That's probably not going to happen.

No that's not what I meant. I want to a priori lock a page so I can't navigate away from it, so I think that Tabs Mix Plus will work -- thanks!!

Also, I think opening last closed tabs in FF is Ctrl-Shift-T which doesn't help me in this situation, but is useful to know.
posted by bluefly at 2:10 PM on April 21

For last.fm, there's this Greasemonkey script.
posted by qvtqht at 5:52 PM on April 21