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Re: Firefox lost restore previous session setting

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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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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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