How do you have Firefox remember which tab you were on when you restore?
Before I had to reinstall my Windows a few days ago, my Firefox when I restored my session would tab itself over to the last tab I was on when I closed the browser, on a fresh Firefox install the restore function only opens the tabs after my home tab; is there a way to restore that function?
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Under preferences, then under the general tab, look for "when Firefox starts" and click "Show your windows and tabs from last time."
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Under preferences, then under the general tab, look for "when Firefox starts" and click "Show your windows and tabs from last time."
tomatoshadow2 said
Under preferences, then under the general tab, look for "when Firefox starts" and click "Show your windows and tabs from last time."
Forgot to add background, my previous Firefox install before I had to reinstall Windows was set to the default option for opening it, I'll be setting it to that now though for simplification, but is there an option for this out of curiousity?
Reinstalling the operating system many times eliminates ALL Firefox data, not just one tab that was sitting in the Session Restore feature.
A full backup of your Firefox Profile is the safest way to proceed before reinstalling or fixing the operating system. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
If nothing else in Firefox seems to be lost, you're lucky. See if you can locate that one Tab in your browsing history. Open or closed when Firefox was last shutdown, that "last open tab" should be the first in the History for that day of the week.
the-edmeister said
Reinstalling the operating system many times eliminates ALL Firefox data, not just one tab that was sitting in the Session Restore feature. A full backup of your Firefox Profile is the safest way to proceed before reinstalling or fixing the operating system. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles If nothing else in Firefox seems to be lost, you're lucky. See if you can locate that one Tab in your browsing history. Open or closed when Firefox was last shutdown, that "last open tab" should be the first in the History for that day of the week.
Would like to apologize to all readers and responders for my question's post not being as clear as I thought.
I was aware that my Firefox would be completely lost after reinstalling Windows, I was just asking out of curiousity if there was a setting somewhere before that I activated at a point that, upon restoring a session through the History menu, my session would change to my last used tab of the previous session once the tabs are loaded, compared to now where the browser will just throw all the old tabs after the first tab opened with the browser.
As of now I just changed Firefox to reload my last session by default, so now it's just me trying to sate my curiousity since no search through Google had this question in it.
"Would like to apologize to all readers and responders for my question's post not being as clear as I thought.
I was aware that my Firefox would be completely lost after reinstalling Windows, I was just asking out of curiousity if there was a setting somewhere before that I activated at a point that, upon restoring a session through the History menu, my session would change to my last used tab of the previous session once the tabs are loaded, compared to now where the browser will just throw all the old tabs after the first tab opened with the browser.
As of now I just changed Firefox to reload my last session by default, so now it's just me trying to sate my curiousity since no search through Google had this question in it." </blockquote>
I believe that would be the feature I mentioned to you in my first reply.
I'll go ahead and mark this as solved, thanks for trying to help out, was a late night so I don't think I made much sense heh. Apologies for being difficult.