tony: Show my windows and tabs from last time.

My desktop does that anyway - start KDE and all my Konqueror sessions are
restored, with all the open windows _on the appropriate desktops_.

eric : You don't have to go back and forth and you don't have
: 15 windows opening up or have your taskbar filled up.

When I start my desktop I don't have 15 browser windows opening up - it is
usually more like 60 ! And usually a dozen text editor windows, half a dozen
terminals shelled into other machines, and various other windows - that's
the point of having twenty desktops and a thirty inch monitor :-) I have 72
windows open at the moment, my taskbar is not full and I have seven desktops
with no windows on them at all, so lots of room to open many more yet :-)

When I open a link in a new place it is because I want to keep on looking
at the old place, as well as the new one. Very often I will want to move
the new window to a different desktop, which you can't do with tabs. That
is the way I learnt to browse and that is the way I still like to work -
I appreciate that other people think differently. My point was that if
you are not used to a tabbed browser it appears as though the link has
not opened as (by default) you end up looking at the same window that you
started with. For someone coming to Firefox for the first time, this is
a very non-obvious feature ! In fact, for someone who has been using it
as their less-preferred browser for years it is _still_ a non-obvious and
counter-intuitive feature :-)

Of course, tabbed browsing can be useful if/when you get used to it -
especially if you have a small monitor, a single virtual desktop, and
no obvious single-click way of sending a window to the back of the stack.
That's probably why a lot of Windows users find it helps, whilst many (not
all) Linux, Solaris, MacOS or RISC OS users find it less so...

: the newest version of Firefox and have never had any problems with the forum.

No, I'm quite sure Firefox is able to handle the forum - that's why I was
postulating an alternative idea of what was happening - I guess it is
working fine, but in a way the user didn't expect - he did say he was new
to Firefox, you'll recall.

Andy