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Firefox lost restore previous session setting

Started byGary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
First post2016-10-21 05:50 +0200
Last post2016-10-24 08:40 +0200
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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

#173671 — Firefox lost restore previous session setting

FromGary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
Date2016-10-21 05:50 +0200
SubjectFirefox lost restore previous session setting
Message-ID<suz0e-8uH-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
I'm running Stretch on an AMD64 system. Lately I haven't been able to 
locate the restore previous session button and Firefox doesn't seem to 
want to do it automatically either.

Has this option been removed? I find it terribly annoying to have to 
reopen all the tabs I normally have every time I restart Firefox, which 
I have to more frequently than I like because it gets excruciatingly 
slow if left running for a few days.

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#173699

FromGary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
Date2016-10-21 20:40 +0200
Message-ID<suMTw-Zb-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#173671
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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#173701

FromWilliam Satterthwaite <william.satterthwaite1008@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-21 21:00 +0200
Message-ID<suNcS-16b-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#173699

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In that case, you could try this
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/> addon.
Once installed, you can go session manager > session manager options >
Startup and Shutdown > change the  startup option to 'show my windows
and tabs from last time'

It does seem Firefox is taking a strange direction, hopefully they come
back around.


On 22/10/16 07:32, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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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#173710

FromGary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
Date2016-10-21 23:30 +0200
Message-ID<suPy1-2Jv-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On 21/10/16 02:50 PM, William Satterthwaite wrote:
>
> In that case, you could try this 
> <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/> 
> addon. Once installed, you can go session manager > session manager 
> options > Startup and Shutdown > change the startup option to 'show my 
> windows and tabs from last time'
>
> It does seem Firefox is taking a strange direction, hopefully they 
> come back around.

It could be that they've decided the functionality is better handled as 
an add-on, since one seems to exist. However, I just tried it and it 
doesn't seem to work either. In the preferences I'd selected "at startup 
'Show my windows and tabs from last time'" and "at shutdown 'backup the 
current session'" but I just got the default start page when I restarted 
Firefox.

I then tried the settings button | History | Restore Closed Windows and 
noticed that it actually opened 3 new Firefox windows. One was a 
duplicate single-tab startup session, another was an earlier session and 
the third was the session I'd just closed. So I apparently just need to 
close extra windows....

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#173711

FromDutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
Date2016-10-22 01:30 +0200
Message-ID<suRq9-3X6-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#173699
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote:
> 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.  :)

I am using FF 49.0.1, currently logged into Arch Linux.  I have an option
History -> Restore Previous Session. I can also go History -> Recently Closed
Tabs -> Restore All Tabs.

Isn't this what you are looking for, or did I miss something?

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#173714

FromGary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
Date2016-10-22 06:00 +0200
Message-ID<suVDr-6w2-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#173711
On 21/10/16 07:23 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>> On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote:
>> 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.  :)
> I am using FF 49.0.1, currently logged into Arch Linux.  I have an option
> History -> Restore Previous Session. I can also go History -> Recently Closed
> Tabs -> Restore All Tabs.
>
> Isn't this what you are looking for, or did I miss something?
>
Interesting. These options weren't there earlier but have now appeared.

Unfortunately History | Restore Previous Session is always greyed out. 
The other ones are now behaving like the Settings Button | History 
except that they are both present all the time. The Restore Closed 
Windows  opens a new browser with the previous session restored - 
meaning I have to close the browser that launched it.

There is some real weirdness going on with Firefox.

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#173783

FromMarc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-24 08:40 +0200
Message-ID<svH5o-3Tr-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#173714
On 10/21/2016 08:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 21/10/16 07:23 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote:
>>> 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.  :)
>> I am using FF 49.0.1, currently logged into Arch Linux.  I have an 
>> option
>> History -> Restore Previous Session. I can also go History -> 
>> Recently Closed
>> Tabs -> Restore All Tabs.
>>
>> Isn't this what you are looking for, or did I miss something?
>>
> Interesting. These options weren't there earlier but have now appeared.
>
> Unfortunately History | Restore Previous Session is always greyed out. 
> The other ones are now behaving like the Settings Button | History 
> except that they are both present all the time. The Restore Closed 
> Windows  opens a new browser with the previous session restored - 
> meaning I have to close the browser that launched it.
>
> There is some real weirdness going on with Firefox.
>
I am running 49.0.2 direct from Mozilla and it seems to work as it should.

I can go to Edit>Preferences>General and select "Show my windows and 
tabs from last time" so that it always starts with my previous windows 
and tabs opened.

If I select History>Recently closed Windows>Restore all windows it opens 
all of the listed windows and leaves my current window open as well.


Marc

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