# "We Are the Champions" and Firefox **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 29, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305 "2012-02-29T01:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/1 "2012-02-29T01:58:06Z")
Does everyone hear “We Are the Champions” when restoring Firefox, or has Freddie Mercury’s ghost inhabited my Mac? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/2 "2012-02-29T23:34:07Z")
When you restore Adobe do you hear “Flash Gordon”? (sorry, I got nothin) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/3 "2012-03-01T06:22:02Z")
What is this “restore” of which you speak? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/4 "2012-03-01T06:24:38Z")
I found the culprit: a video that was in a hidden tab. And Adobe products never need to be restored. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/5 "2012-03-01T23:54:50Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I found the culprit: a video that was in a hidden tab. > > And Adobe products never need to be restored. Until your post I wasn’t aware that Firefox ever needed to be restored, either. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/6 "2012-03-02T01:20:27Z")
Restored? Meaning? ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/7 "2012-03-02T01:29:49Z")
In OS X Lion, applications that are running at log off will pick up from where they left off, the next time they’re started. I believe this is what “restore” means, in this context. (Apple calls it “Resume”, about halfway down this page: [macOS Ventura - Apple](http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/.)) OP, glad you solved the problem! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/8 "2012-03-02T10:32:33Z")
When Foxfire crashes, and I need to open it again, it restores whatever pages/tabs I had open before the crash. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/9 "2012-03-02T16:53:41Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > When you restore Adobe do you hear “Flash Gordon”? > > (sorry, I got nothin) - golf clap Am I the only one who didn’t get whooshed by this? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/10 "2012-03-03T01:02:38Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > When Foxfire crashes, and I need to open it again, it restores whatever pages/tabs I had open before the crash. I guess, for most people, Firefox doesn’t crash often enough that they are aware of this feature. And the issue is a result of YouTube autoplaying videos. It’s one of the reasons I use [Flashblock](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/). It also helps prevent crashes, as Flash causes 90% of those. > [@cochrane](#): > > - golf clap > > Am I the only one who didn’t get whooshed by this? If it’s not as simple as a reference to Adobe Flash, then I know I was wooshed. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/11 "2012-03-03T07:38:34Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If it’s not as simple as a reference to Adobe Flash, then I know I was wooshed. **panache45** said he heard “We Are the Champions,” a song by Queen, when restoring Firefox. **TBG** then used the reference to Adobe Flash as an opportunity to work in another Queen song, the theme to the movie Flash Gordon. (“Flash, ah, ah.”) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-the-champions-and-firefox/614305/12 "2012-03-04T00:13:12Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > **panache45** said he heard “We Are the Champions,” a song by Queen, when restoring Firefox. **TBG** then used the reference to Adobe Flash as an opportunity to work in another Queen song, the theme to the movie Flash Gordon. (“Flash, ah, ah.”) Indeed.😃