Tell Firefox to restore tabs and windows on launch
Jun 11, '07 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: stimpy
Sometimes you need to quit Firefox, but you don't want to lose all of those open pages and tabs. How do you quit Firefox, relaunch it, and quickly get back to where you were? I've seen some hints that suggest force quitting Firefox or using extensions. But Firefox has this feature built in -- it's just not where you expect it, so many people don't know it exists.
On the Main tab of Firefox's Preferences, change the When Firefox starts pop-up to 'Show my windows and tabs from last time.' That's it. Now if you quit Firefox with open windows and tabs, those same windows and tabs will be reloaded the next time you launch Firefox again.
[robg adds: Yes, it's a hint on a documented feature, but I ran a quick iChat poll and nobody knew about this, so I figured it was worth sharing.]