I've fixed the output of the --help option which crashed due to "invalid" characters in my accentuated name.  Thanks for Tamás for letting me know about this bug!

#!/bin/bash

if [ "x$KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION" = "x" ]; then
    exec ssh $*
fi

function restore_old_session_name {
    dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION renameSession "$old_session_name"
}

if [ "x$KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION" != "x" ]; then
    old_session_name=`dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION sessionName`
    hostname="${!#}"  # we expect the last arg to ssh to be the hostname
fi

trap "restore_old_session_name" SIGINT SIGTERM

if [ "x$KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION" != "x" ]; then
    if [ "x$hostname" != "xecho FISH:; /bin/sh" ]; then
        dcop $KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION renameSession "$hostname"
    fi
fi

/usr/bin/ssh $*

if [ "x$KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION" != "x" ]; then
    restore_old_session_name
fi

If your answer is yes, it's time to install my Greasemonkey extension. Works well against most of such pages.

Although I doubt anyone would use Feedy, I put it out, because I think it has a nice UI and a good database layout that prevents feed duplication pretty effectively so it may be a good base for developing a more robust feed reader.

feedy.tar.bz2 is not a release. A release is a carefully compiled end product that is easy to install. Feedy is not easy to install, but check out the README file for some information.

Lastly but not leastly here are some screenshots:

The news items screen

The config screen

Seems familiar?

The reason it happens is that Firefox doesn't implement the X session protocol so every time you log out from your Linux desktop, Firefox gets mercilessly killed. I don't plan to patch Firefox to implement X session protocol, because I don't have the special knowledge and it'd took too much time for me, but I present you a pretty good hack that works really nice.

Edit {your-firefox-directory}/components/nsSessionStartup.js as follows:

Original code:

// prompt and check prefs
this._doRestore = this._lastSessionCrashed ? this._doRecoverSession() : this._doResumeSession();

Updated code:

// prompt and check prefs
var ignoreSessionCrash = this._getPref("sessionstore.ignore_session_crash", false);
this._doRestore = !ignoreSessionCrash && this._lastSessionCrashed
                      ? this._doRecoverSession()
                      : this._doResumeSession();

From now on if you want to always restore your session upon startup, you have to set the sessionstore.ignore_session_crash variable to true within the about:config page of Firefox (you have to type about:config in the address bar).

if Firefox keeps crashing due to an evil web page that is saved in your session, then you have to manually set the sessionstore.ignore_session_crash variable to false by editing the {your-home-directory}/.mozilla/firefox/{your-profile-dir}/prefs.js file as follows:

original line: user_pref("browser.sessionstore.ignore_session_crash", true);
updated line: user_pref("browser.sessionstore.ignore_session_crash", false);

Good luck hacking your Firefox until the X session protocol gets implemented in it!

I want to share the core function I've written that can help you in such scenarios. It's a simple, but very useful one.

function submit_form(method, action, elements, target)
{
    var form = document.createElement('form');
    document.body.appendChild(form);
    form.method = method;
    form.action = action;
    for (element_i in elements) {
        var element = document.createElement('input');
        element.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');
        element.setAttribute('name', element_i);
        element.setAttribute('value', elements[element_i]);
        form.appendChild(element);
    }
    if (target) {
        form.target = target;
    }
    form.submit();
}

Requests are typically triggered based on the content of window.location.href or document.referrer.

Greasemonkey has some ugly annoyances, but fortunately most of them can be worked around. The LiveHTTPHeaders add-on can also help you tremendously constructing the fields of the forms.