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firefox tabs

Jun 15, 2012 1:35AM PDT

I don't know if this is the right forum for this question or not but I've a question regarding firefox's tabs. It used to be that when I closed firefox it used to ask me if I wanted to save my tabs. I would say yes then when I reopened it my tabs would re appear. It doesn't do that anymore, it just informs me that I'm about to close however many tabs I have open at the time and, of course, I lose those tabs. My question is, how do I go about getting that function back?

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Clarification Request
From your other thread
Jun 16, 2012 6:57AM PDT

"I forgot to mention that I'm using the waterfox 11.0 64 bit iteration of firefox on my windows 7 pro 64 bit OS."

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Re: firefox
Jun 16, 2012 7:03AM PDT

It doesn't with me (version 12.0). If fact, it never has done. If I've more than one tab open and close the program it asks if I really want to close all the tabs and that's it. And when I rerun it starts again with my homepage.

So I assume you once installed some add-on that offered this option. And maybe that's switched off for not being compatible with the version of Firefox you run. Did you go into Tools>Add-ons to check?

Kees

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More.
Jun 16, 2012 7:15AM PDT

I just saw it's a setting in Tools>Options>General. What to do at start: Start Page, Empty Pages, or Pages open when I closed the program. That's in Firefox 13 (installed itself a few minutes ago).

But it was hidden at first because I by accident I had the session manager of Tabbrowser extension checked. I unchecked that, and the option appeared again. It's the standard behaviour to have that choice.

So it could also be that some add-on interferes with the standard option you used so long already.

Kees

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I stand corrected as well
Jun 16, 2012 10:09PM PDT

Thanks Kees, and my apologies to James.

James I hope that works for you as well.

Mark

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Re: firefox tabs
Jun 28, 2012 10:49AM PDT

Yeah, that was very helpful Mark, thanks a lot.

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Re: firefox tabs
Jun 28, 2012 10:58AM PDT

Thanks Kees, that did the trick, I knew that it wasn't an add-on or third party app. because the choice box was a native firefox function, and I run very light on add-ons and extensions. Again, many thanks.

Jim

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Waterfox.
Jun 16, 2012 7:08AM PDT

This seems strange, their FAQ;

http://waterfoxproject.org/faq/

"If there are any bugs, where should I report them?

Unfortunately, since this is a 3rd party build you cannot report any bugs and you'll just have to hope that they get fixed in the next update by Mozilla."

Seems they are not concerned.

But like Kees, I have never seen this in Firefox. I have seen, where an update shuts down FF or where some error shuts it down, when it restarts it attempts to open all tabs again, but it has never saved them for me when I have closed FF down.

How about a workaround? Set more than one Home Page.

Mark

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Re: firefox tabs
Jul 3, 2012 12:04PM PDT

MarkFlax, Kees answered my question beautifully, the issue (which is no longer an issue) has nothing to do with 3rd party apps. It is a native function in Firefox's settings under the "tools" tab, which I went directly to, ticked the appropriate box and functions perfectly.

Thanks For Your Response

Jim

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Yes I saw it
Jul 3, 2012 7:39PM PDT

One I missed I'm afraid.

Glad you have got it arranged as you wished.

Mark