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If I am using the Opera web browser under Windows 10, and Windows crashes or my computer crashes or I flip the main switch on my power strip, is there a feature to reload the page or pages that I was viewing? I am trying to compare the advantages and disadvantages of different web browsers. Google Chrome usually restores the pages that it was viewing, but not always, and in particular not if Windows restarts. Firefox is extremely reliable at restoring the pages that it was viewing. Microsoft Edge normally restores the pages that it was viewing, but behaves oddly in sometimes reloading pages that I had tried to close, and has a few other quirks. Is there a way to have Opera restore the page or pages that it was viewing? Robert McClenon ( talk) 05:38, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
I have been advised not to hard-power-cycle my PC. Is there a procedure that I can then perform that works as effectively as a power-cycle if the PC is non-responsive and acting stupid? Don't tell me to use Ctrl-Alt-Del and select Restart. That often works very well and occasionally takes minutes. Also, that typically asks me if I really want to shut down the applications, and tries to protect the applications from being hard-stopped. Is there, first, a quick reliable way either to get the attention of the CPU, or a quick way to cause it to cease to have any attention, and, second, a quick reliable way to kill all the applications without it trying to protect me?
It might be happening on other sites, but it is happening on Wikipedia. I click on a link that takes me to another site, but when I click on the back button to go back to Wikipedia, I often go back to a page that I was on earlier, but not the one I was on immediately before clicking on the external link. I have Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:31, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
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If I am using the Opera web browser under Windows 10, and Windows crashes or my computer crashes or I flip the main switch on my power strip, is there a feature to reload the page or pages that I was viewing? I am trying to compare the advantages and disadvantages of different web browsers. Google Chrome usually restores the pages that it was viewing, but not always, and in particular not if Windows restarts. Firefox is extremely reliable at restoring the pages that it was viewing. Microsoft Edge normally restores the pages that it was viewing, but behaves oddly in sometimes reloading pages that I had tried to close, and has a few other quirks. Is there a way to have Opera restore the page or pages that it was viewing? Robert McClenon ( talk) 05:38, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
I have been advised not to hard-power-cycle my PC. Is there a procedure that I can then perform that works as effectively as a power-cycle if the PC is non-responsive and acting stupid? Don't tell me to use Ctrl-Alt-Del and select Restart. That often works very well and occasionally takes minutes. Also, that typically asks me if I really want to shut down the applications, and tries to protect the applications from being hard-stopped. Is there, first, a quick reliable way either to get the attention of the CPU, or a quick way to cause it to cease to have any attention, and, second, a quick reliable way to kill all the applications without it trying to protect me?
It might be happening on other sites, but it is happening on Wikipedia. I click on a link that takes me to another site, but when I click on the back button to go back to Wikipedia, I often go back to a page that I was on earlier, but not the one I was on immediately before clicking on the external link. I have Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:31, 1 February 2019 (UTC)