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[Char Jackson]

I would have said that shutting down and then powering on provides no
advantage over a simple warm restart, other than superstition. A
superstition that I believe in, BTW...

But Paul's reply to you has me thinking differently now

I have a couple of SATA controller cards* that behave differently
depending on whether I do a warm boot or cold boot, so I'm with Paul
in that there are differences between the two kinds of reboots.

Does Windows know the difference? Maybe not, but some of the hardware
does.

*<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358

 

[Robin Bignall]

I would have said that shutting down and then powering on provides no
advantage over a simple warm restart, other than superstition. A
superstition that I believe in, BTW...

But Paul's reply to you has me thinking differently now

It's a similar sort of thing to clicking on a parameter in a program,
and it not working. So you start the program again and unclick, shut
the program, start it again and click, and this time it works. I've
always put it down to mischievous imps getting into your RAM when you
were not looking.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

It's a similar sort of thing to clicking on a parameter in a program,
and it not working. So you start the program again and unclick, shut
the program, start it again and click, and this time it works. I've
always put it down to mischievous imps getting into your RAM when you
were not looking.

Today my browser (Firefox) stopped asking me if I meant to quit when
more than one tab is up, and the above approach didn't work, even with a
reboot. Since I was in a hurry, I wasn't especially careful, so I expect
to try again tomorrow while paying more attention to what I'm doing...

If I don't forget again...

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Today my browser (Firefox) stopped asking me if I meant to quit when
more than one tab is up, and the above approach didn't work, even with a
reboot. Since I was in a hurry, I wasn't especially careful, so I expect
to try again tomorrow while paying more attention to what I'm doing...

If I don't forget again...

I didn't forget.

It wasn't a question of resetting and restarting, it was one of my
add-ons.

I was running Tab Mix Plus, which at least partly duplicates the
multi-tab functionality of Firefox. I was also running Showcase, which
lets me show all the tabs as thumbnails in a single screen, for easy
management.

Killing Showcase didn't help, but killing Tab Mix Plus fixed it.
Apparently it not only duplicated the built-in functionality, it also
interfered

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Today my browser (Firefox) stopped asking me if I meant to quit when
more than one tab is up, and the above approach didn't work, even with a

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It wasn't a question of resetting and restarting, it was one of my
add-ons.

I was running Tab Mix Plus, which at least partly duplicates the
multi-tab functionality of Firefox. I was also running Showcase, which
lets me show all the tabs as thumbnails in a single screen, for easy
management.

Killing Showcase didn't help, but killing Tab Mix Plus fixed it.
Apparently it not only duplicated the built-in functionality, it also
interfered

I had the same: I thought I'd lost all my tabs. It isn't necessary to
kill Tab Mix Plus, though: there is some setting somewhere (which I
can't now find!) that enables remembering of tabs.