Battery Drainage

Hello There!

I have a dilemma. I was running my laptop to get it to drain completely for my monthly power cycle. It was at 13% when I had to leave to do a quick errand. However, there was a Firefox window open because I thought I would be back in time to close it and let the computer run the shutdown process.

I came back and the computer was already shut off.

My question is this: Did anything get corrupted because I had a Firefox window open when the computer was forced to shut off when the battery ran out?
Did anything else get damaged because the Firefox window was open?


Thank You!

 

i wouldnt of though it would damage anything. sometimes when you have multiple windows open and close firefox and restart it again it asks do you want to revert back to the open tabs or this used to happen with older versions of firefox.

its not advisable to let a battery totally drain and shut down suddenly though.

 

Right, I know that Firefox lets you restore previous session if you hit the "x" on the top right.

However I am concerned with the battery reaching critical level and the computer completely shutting off when a Firefox window is active.


UPDATE: I turned on the computer and it said "Computer reached critical battery level. Windows has saved your session."

It let me open windows normally, but the screen displayed "Resuming Windows" and opened up the exact Firefox window I was on when it died.

Any damage?

 

Your computer DID NOT shut down suddenly.

First of all, when your computer ran out of battery, it went into hibernate before shutting down. In the power options, you can select what your computer does when it runs out of battery. Unless you go in there and change it from the default and select "do nothing," the computer will not shut off suddenly.

Secondly, nothing bad is going to happen if your computer does shutdown suddenly. It is the only way I shut down my computer, unless I am installing updates and thus restart it normally.