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When I close Netbeans and then reopen, it remembers my screen configuration and all my document tabs from the last session. This is great! Unfortunately, sometimes Netbeans crashes (although continuously improving), or the O/S crashes, or a cat bites a power cord, or whatever. In those cases that Netbeans does not shutdown cleanly, Netbeans reverts to the last saved session, which could be uselessly old (especially if crashes are happening often). I would like to see Netbeans either periodically save the session info (every 5-minutes?), or at least provide a means so I can manually initiate the session saving feature before I'm about to do something risky.
Also session is not saved when Windows shuts down correctly, not due to power loss, and when Netbeans process is not forcibly killed (issue 209715).