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

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

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

Table of Contents

  • ane When session restore occurs
    • 1.ane When you select Restore Previous Session from the Firefox menu
    • 1.2 Subsequently a Firefox update
    • 1.3 After restarting with add-ons disabled
    • 1.4 Afterward restarting Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode
    • 1.5 After a crash
    • ane.6 When you've ready Firefox to restore the previous session at startup
  • 2 Configuring session restore
  • iii Privacy issues
  • 4 Troubleshooting
    • 4.1 Previous session not correctly closed
    • 4.ii Settings may exist incorrect

When session restore occurs

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

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

Hither's how to go your tabs and windows from a previous session back using the Firefox bill of fare:

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

To apply whatever 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 issues such as problems 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 it is restarted. Firefox volition automatically restore your previous session, the first time you launch it subsequently a crash.

If Firefox crashes a second time, the Restore Session page will appear when you adjacent launch Firefox.

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

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

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

Configuring session restore

When Firefox starts, a single window is opened past default, displaying your specified home folio. If you wish, you can configure Firefox to open the windows and tabs from your previous session:

Privacy issues

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

You may besides wish to disable the Session Restore crash recovery characteristic which is enabled by default. This volition prevent restoring a previous session when Firefox is opened after an unexpected close or software crash:

  1. Type well-nigh:config in the address bar and press Enter Render .
    A warning page may appear. Click Accept the Adventure and Continue to become to the nigh:config folio.
  2. In the Search box at the top, type browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash.
  3. In the resulting filigree, double-click click the Toggle Fx71aboutconfig-ToggleButton button adjacent to browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash to fix it to false .

Troubleshooting

Previous session not correctly closed

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

Settings may be incorrect

For other session restore problems, y'all may need to make corrections to your Firefox settings:

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

  2. Select the panel.
  3. In the History section, make certain that the Firefox will drop-downwards carte is set to either or .
    • If Firefox will is set to and so make sure that Always apply Private Browsing way is not selected.
    • If Firefox will is set 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. Close the well-nigh:preferences page. Whatever changes you've made will automatically be saved.

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