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Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

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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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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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