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Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

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On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote:
>
> Are you accessing the restore button through the default home page? If 
> this is where the button has disappeared from, you can try accessing 
> it through the settings button > history > restore. Or enable the menu 
> bar > history > restore.
>
> If your already using this method, sorry I'm not sure what happened to 
> it. Working fine 45.3.0
>
> Hope this helps.
>

Thanks. The  settings button | History  has a "Restore Closed Tabs" 
option that isn't in the History pulldown. When you first start Firefox, 
the option reads "Restore Closed Windows". Neither actually does the 
same thing as the "restore previous session" button used to do. I have 
no idea what criteria Firefox uses to decide which windows/tabs to 
restore, but they aren't the ones that were open when I closed Firefox.

There also doesn't seem to be way of customizing the menu bar to include 
the option, or even the option in settings button | History section. The 
History | Restore Closed Tabs is gone.

I'm using Firefox 45.4.0.

I preferred it when Firefox automatically restored your last session. I 
didn't mind it when it started asking you nor even when it made you 
press a button on the startup page. I gather from the increasing 
difficulty in restoring the previous session, someone has decided that 
people simply shouldn't do it.  :)

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Firefox lost restore previous session setting Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-10-21 05:50 +0200
  Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-10-21 20:40 +0200
    Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting William Satterthwaite <william.satterthwaite1008@gmail.com> - 2016-10-21 21:00 +0200
      Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-10-21 23:30 +0200
    Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-10-22 01:30 +0200
      Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-10-22 06:00 +0200
        Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2016-10-24 08:40 +0200

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