I generally have a “home” Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to “lose” it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

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    I wish Firefox had a method to restore windows after a restart. Losing all my tabs across multiple windows due to work required updates is a huge pain.

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      This is literally a thing? You just go to options and tick General -> Startup -> Open previous windows and tabs. It is quite literally the first option in the interface. I only mean to be a slight bit rude, but did you not even take a cursory look through the options?

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        1 year ago

        Don’t worry about being rude. Spreading demeaning misinformation about free software, especially one as important for the Web as Firefox, should be frowned upon.

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        Personally, I’d like it to be able to do it sometimes without having to set it to happen every time. In other words, I’d like a “restore previous session” UI element in the history interface.

        I should probably look into some of the extensions folks in this thread are talking about.

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      There is a “recently closed windows” section in the history area. You can get all your tabs back.

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      If you can use extensions, I use the Tab Session Manager extension. It has a ton of features too but the big one is auto saving your sessions so you can always restore it all after a restart.

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      It’s funny, it does do this when Windows restarts outside of your control.

      But if you manually trigger a reboot, it assumes you closed all your windows intentionally.

      At least that’s how it behaves for me

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      @entropicshart @oce Weird. Mine started doing exactly that out of the blue, and whilst it annoyed me at first, I’ve gotten used to it. Restart PC, re-open Firefox, everything is there. Didn’t change any settings, don’t even know what setting enables/disables it.

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      1 year ago

      Any idea why Brave does this by default? I didn’t ask it to, but it always opens the ten or so tabs on restart

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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand this thread, this is exactly what I’m talking about in my OP.