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

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

Note: Session Restore may go on you logged in to sites that you were logged in to before y'all closed Firefox. For more information, run into Privacy problems.

Table of Contents

  • ane When session restore occurs
    • 1.1 When y'all select Restore Previous Session from the Firefox carte
    • i.2 Later on a Firefox update
    • 1.3 Later on restarting with add-ons disabled
    • one.4 After restarting Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode
    • 1.5 After a crash
    • 1.6 When yous've prepare Firefox to restore the previous session at startup
  • ii Configuring session restore
  • 3 Privacy issues
  • iv Troubleshooting
    • four.1 Previous session not correctly closed
    • 4.2 Settings may be wrong

When session restore occurs

Here'south how to go your tabs and windows from a previous session back using the Firefox card:

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

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

  1. Click the menu button Fx57menu on the right side of your toolbar.
  2. Click so select .
    Sessionrestore89

After a Firefox update

To utilize any updates to the Firefox application that have been downloaded, y'all must restart Firefox. To restart, click Restart to update Firefox.

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After a crash

Due to unexpected problems such as issues with a website, software errors, or an accidental loss of power, Firefox may unexpectedly close. In these situations, Firefox can restore the pages that you were visiting when information technology is restarted. Firefox will automatically restore your previous session, the beginning time you launch it afterward a crash.

If Firefox crashes a 2nd fourth dimension, the Restore Session page will appear when you next launch Firefox.

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  • To restore your previous session, select the windows or tabs you want 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 beginning a new session, click Start New Session.

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

Yous can gear up Firefox to ever show your windows and tabs from your previous session each time y'all start Firefox. To modify your Firefox startup settings, see Configuring session restore, below.

Configuring session restore

When Firefox starts, a unmarried window is opened by default, displaying your specified dwelling page. If you wish, you tin configure Firefox to open the windows and tabs from your previous session:

Privacy issues

Session Restore may go along you logged in to sites that y'all were logged in to before y'all closed Firefox. If someone else used your figurer afterward you, they could admission your business relationship on these sites. If this is a concern then you should not configure Firefox to open all windows and tabs from your previous session.

Yous may besides wish to disable the Session Restore crash recovery feature which is enabled by default. This will forestall restoring a previous session when Firefox is opened after an unexpected close or software crash:

  1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter Return .
    A warning page may appear. Click Take the Gamble and Go along to get to the most:config page.
  2. In the Search box at the top, type 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 simulated .

Troubleshooting

Previous session not correctly closed

To become your tabs and windows back from a previous session, you lot should close Firefox from the bill of fare: Click the Firefox carte du jour Fx89menuButton Fx57Menu and select . Click the Firefox menu at the top of the screen and select . Click the Firefox carte Fx89menuButton Fx57Menu and select . If yous close each window or tab, but the tabs in the final window that you close are bachelor when you lot restart Firefox.

Settings may be incorrect

For other session restore problems, you may need to brand corrections to your Firefox settings:

  1. In the Carte du jour bar at the top of the screen, click and select . Click the menu push button Fx57Menu and select . Click the menu push Fx89menuButton and select .

  2. Select the panel.
  3. In the History section, make certain that the Firefox will drop-down bill of fare is set to either or .
    • If Firefox will is set to then make sure that Always employ Private Browsing mode is not selected.
    • If Firefox will is ready to and Clear history when Firefox closes is selected, then click the Settings push and make sure that Browsing & Download History is non selected.
  4. Close the near:preferences page. Whatever changes you've fabricated will automatically exist saved.

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