Say you have over half a dozen websites open inside IE 7. But suddenly your Internet Explorer window closes without warning or simply freezes and stops responding. You have no other option but to kill the IE 7 process (iexplore.exe) via the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del).
In either of the cases, there's no record of web pages that were open in your IE window prior to the crash. What do you do in such a situation?
Firefox 2 users are lucky because the Mozilla browser has an excellent Session Restore feature that auto saves the browser tabs and will restart exactly to the previous state in the event of a crash or freeze.
While Internet Explorer version 7.0 has no such feature to recover work from a crashed session, you can download a free add-in called IEPlus to bring the very useful "Session Restore" feature of Firefox in your IE browser. [see screenshot]
The next time your IE crashes, you won't have to search the browser cache to recall the names of the websites that were open - IEPlus will just ask for your confirmation and will auto-restore the browser automatically to the previous state. Nothing is lost.
And if you click the "No" button in the confirmation dialog, IEPlus shows you a list of websites that were open in IE prior to the crash - you can open sites selectively, a lovely feature that's missing even in Firefox.
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Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/08/repair-internet-explorer-crash-restore.html
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Reader Comments
Amit, i would also like to add... that this tool has been there sice the beta release if ie 7.0 ... and i downloaded it way back in dec....
ie 7.0 is more buggy then i.e. 6 and crashes a lot..... but after using this amount of crash i get have reduced to a minimal amount....
so its pretty useful tool, restoring the crash session is good.. but whats most useful is that it actually reduces the number of crashes...
cheers
Written on 22/8/07 9:44 PM
What a funny thing.....
I Am an Opera browser lover and have been using and loving opera since version 7.
I remember , it was about two years ago that I was amazed by Opera's "Session Restore" + " Session save" + "Tabbed browsing" + "Mouse Navigation" + "Notes" + "g search " plus a hell lotta other features.
FireFox and IE look so young and Primitive .....
Written on 22/8/07 10:31 PM
This feature though very helpful in crisis situations might also compromise on your privacy, especially if someone shares the same user login on a shared computer (like in workplaces where we often have to do that).
In case you are logged in to your email and the browser crashes and you 're in a hurry to leave. So you simply shutdown or log off. And when the next user comes in and selects the session restore, and all your password protected stuff is revealed before his/her eyes. Though trivial, I found many a colleague's personal mail accounts at my discretion many a time.
Written on 23/8/07 11:44 AM
IE7 pro is also a great addon for the same purpose. Can check it at http://www.ie7pro.com/
Written on 24/8/07 2:42 AM