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Resume browsing session in Firefox
Authored by: paulpro on Jun 03, '07 07:47:58AM

As a couple of other readers have attempted to mention, there is no need for an extension, as Firefox has session saving built-in.

Go to Firefox Preferences. On the Main tab of the Preferences window, under "When Firefox starts" set it to "show my windows and tabs from last time."

That's it, no need to force-quit the app, simply quit is as you regularly would, and when you start Firefox again, all of your previous windows and tabs will open to the locations you left them.



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Resume browsing session in Firefox
Authored by: balthisar on Jun 03, '07 12:40:39PM

Normally I don't want all of my tabs from the last session to re-open. Only in certain circumstances do I want such behavior, and so I use the force-quit option from time to time.

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--Jim (me)



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Resume browsing session in Firefox
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Jun 03, '07 09:52:40PM
Normally I don't want all of my tabs from the last session to re-open. Only in certain circumstances do I want such behavior, and so I use the force-quit option from time to time.
I would strongly suggest setting Firefox to resume sessions and closing any windows (⌘-SHIFT-W) you don't want open, or Option-clicking the close button to close all the open windows.

Force-quitting an active application when it's not required can lead to corrupted files, broken permissions or damaged plug-ins -- it's a bad idea in general.

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