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can't reopen closed tabs

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  • Last reply by cheekoo

It started recently, and I can't re-open closed tabs. The option in history drop down is also disabled. Also, even though I have set it to reopen tabs from last time on re-start, it wont do that.


Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am on Firefox - 38.0.1 on Mac. Thanks in Advance!

I know the obvious thing to do it is to start clean but have way too much browsing history in Firefox to delete everything. Any ideas? :(

It started recently, and I can't re-open closed tabs. The option in history drop down is also disabled. Also, even though I have set it to reopen tabs from last time on re-start, it wont do that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am on Firefox - 38.0.1 on Mac. Thanks in Advance! I know the obvious thing to do it is to start clean but have way too much browsing history in Firefox to delete everything. Any ideas? :(

Modified by cheekoo

Chosen solution

An update I thought of moving back to firefox 37, and that did the trick!

CmdShiftT works as well!!

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Make sure that you close the Firefox application while the tabs are still open (Firefox > Quit).

If you first close the current Firefox window and still have the menu bar visible then you will have to check for recently closed windows/tabs.

that is correct - tabs opened when i quit firefox do not open upon re-start, even though the config is set to do so. Also Cmd+Shift+T does not re-open closed tabs :( That menu is also disabled, see screenshot.

Screen shot of config

Chosen Solution

An update I thought of moving back to firefox 37, and that did the trick!

CmdShiftT works as well!!

removed duplicate post

Modified by cheekoo