No longer able to restore multiple Family Tree pages
Coincidence or otherwise, I find I can no longer restore the individual pages I was working on the previous day. In the past, I have made a point of working in Chrome if I know work on several profiles will extend over two or three days. That is because in Firefox I have my settings checked to delete all cookies / clear cache whenever I close the browser, but in Chrome I opt to do this manually.
Up till the last few days (coincidental to the new sign-in page being introduced?), next morning I simply have gone to History and restored my previous session. I find I am now unable to do this, as when I attempt to open the different profile pages, the same Details page opens in every tab.
Use of the Recents dropdown is usually a workaround, but I have found profiles I have only viewed (but not worked on) do not always seem to make the list. Regardless, I just found the idea of being able to restore my Family Tree session exactly as I'd left it the night before to be a very useful feature.
I would be very happy if this change in behaviour could be investigated and the former ability to restore multiple pages could be again made available.
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@Paul W Chrome has a setting, on startup, "Continue where you left off."
When I open Chrome I can pick up right where I left off. It has worked as expected with the changes to FS.
Firefox has a similar setting.
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Thank you for pointing that out, but I don't think I'd always wish to do that - especially as it involves changing settings.
I can't illustrate now (as I don't want to close Chrome and, as is the case now, lose the Family Tree pages I currently have open), but I used to leave the pages open when I shut down (effectively "crashing out" of Chrome) then, next morning, go to History, and (I believe when hovering over Recent Tabs) be given the option to Restore (my last session).
Coinciding with the recent changes, I no longer get to the individual pages I had open (admittedly, I have to log in multiple times to get to them!) but now (still logging in multiple times) every page opens on the same page (e.g. all on John Smith's Details page, instead of those for the John Smith, William Brown and Joseph Clarke I had been looking at / working on just before I came out of Chrome last night).
I know this might seem a funny way of working, but I have preferred this method as a way to get back to what I was looking at when I left off, as I have found names do not always appear at the top of my "Recents", especially if I have just browsed them, instead of actually working on them. (Otherwise, using Recents should be the simple alternative for what I want to do.)
But, whatever the whys and wherefores, I just would like things to work as they have up till a few days ago!
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