Restore previous session - Configure when Firefox shows your most recent tabs and windows

Firefox tin restore all windows and tabs that were open when it was last airtight or terminated unexpectedly. This article describes the circumstances nether which Firefox will restore your previous session and how you lot can configure it.

Note: Session Restore may keep yous logged in to sites that you were logged in to before you closed Firefox. For more than information, see Privacy issues.

Table of Contents

  • 1 When session restore occurs
    • 1.1 When you select Restore Previous Session from the Firefox menu
    • 1.two After a Firefox update
    • one.three Afterward restarting with add together-ons disabled
    • i.four After restarting Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode
    • one.5 Later on a crash
    • one.6 When you've set Firefox to restore the previous session at startup
  • 2 Configuring session restore
  • 3 Privacy issues
  • 4 Troubleshooting
    • 4.1 Previous session not correctly airtight
    • four.2 Settings may be incorrect

When session restore occurs

Here's how to get your tabs and windows from a previous session back using the Firefox menu:

  1. Click the card button Fx57menu on the right side of your toolbar.
  2. Select .
    Fx57RestorePreviousSession

Here's how to go your tabs and windows from a previous session back using the Firefox carte du jour:

  1. Click the card button Fx57menu on the right side of your toolbar.
  2. Click and then select .
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After a Firefox update

To employ any updates to the Firefox application that have been downloaded, you must restart Firefox. To restart, click Restart to update Firefox.

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After a crash

Due to unexpected problems such as problems with a website, software errors, or an adventitious loss of power, Firefox may unexpectedly close. In these situations, Firefox can restore the pages that you were visiting when it is restarted. Firefox volition automatically restore your previous session, the outset fourth dimension you launch it after a crash.

If Firefox crashes a second time, the Restore Session folio will appear when yous next launch Firefox.

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  • To restore your previous session, select the windows or tabs you desire to restore and click Restore Session.
  • If Firefox continues to experience errors when windows and tabs are re-opened, you can launch Firefox without restoring these items. To start a new session, click Start New Session.

When you lot've set Firefox to restore the previous session at startup

You can set Firefox to e'er show your windows and tabs from your previous session each time you start Firefox. To change your Firefox startup settings, encounter Configuring session restore, beneath.

Configuring session restore

When Firefox starts, a single window is opened past default, displaying your specified habitation page. If yous wish, y'all can configure Firefox to open the windows and tabs from your previous session:

Privacy bug

Session Restore may keep y'all logged in to sites that y'all were logged in to before you closed Firefox. If someone else used your calculator after y'all, they could admission your account on these sites. If this is a concern then y'all should non configure Firefox to open up all windows and tabs from your previous session.

You may also wish to disable the Session Restore crash recovery characteristic which is enabled by default. This will preclude restoring a previous session when Firefox is opened afterward an unexpected close or software crash:

  1. Blazon about:config in the address bar and printing Enter Return .
    A warning folio may appear. Click Accept the Adventure and Continue to go to the about:config page.
  2. In the Search box at the pinnacle, blazon browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash.
  3. In the resulting grid, double-click click the Toggle Fx71aboutconfig-ToggleButton button next to browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to set it to false .

Troubleshooting

Previous session non correctly closed

To get your tabs and windows back from a previous session, you should shut Firefox from the menu: Click the Firefox menu Fx57Menu and select . Click the Firefox menu at the pinnacle of the screen and select . Click the Firefox menu Fx57Menu and select . If you close each window or tab, only the tabs in the terminal window that you close are available when you lot restart Firefox.

Settings may be incorrect

For other session restore bug, you may need to make corrections to your Firefox settings:

  1. In the Menu bar at the peak of the screen, click and select . Click the menu button Fx57Menu and select . Click the carte du jour button Fx89menuButton and select .

  2. Select the panel.
  3. In the History department, make certain that the Firefox will driblet-down menu is set to either or .
    • If Firefox volition is fix to so make certain that Ever employ Individual Browsing manner is non selected.
    • If Firefox volition is gear up to and Clear history when Firefox closes is selected, then click the Settings button and make sure that Browsing & Download History is not selected.
  4. Shut the nigh:preferences page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.

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