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Retore multiple active tabs per Firefox window.

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dragonks
dragonks

Latest Stable Firefox, windows, over 4000 tabs. Overall Firefox works great for me. but when I restart it to install the latest versions etc, it only restores one active/loaded tab per window. Rest are restored, but in a closed/unloaded state. I usually have 5-20 open tabs per window, and hundreds more unloaded, it's how I work. How on earth can I get it to restore all the open/loaded tabs as they were, not in the unloaded state they default to?

Issue still occurs in a new install with no addons, default settings, under 30 tabs etc. Ditto Win 10 or 11.

Also, how on earth can I get official Mozzilla pages to use Dark Mode??

Latest Stable Firefox, windows, over 4000 tabs. Overall Firefox works great for me. but when I restart it to install the latest versions etc, it only restores one active/loaded tab per window. Rest are restored, but in a closed/unloaded state. I usually have 5-20 open tabs per window, and hundreds more unloaded, it's how I work. How on earth can I get it to restore all the open/loaded tabs as they were, not in the unloaded state they default to? Issue still occurs in a new install with no addons, default settings, under 30 tabs etc. Ditto Win 10 or 11. Also, how on earth can I get official Mozzilla pages to use Dark Mode??

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jbr
jbr
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This is intentional so that any restore is reasonably stable.

If you want to "void the warranty" you can get all the X thousand loaded upon restore by changing some internals, however that may effectively hamper any further restores and the sessionstore integrity over time, if you want to go that route.

dragonks
dragonks Question owner

Cheers but not what I'm looking for. Can confirm loading thousands of tabs at once not the best. So I want to re-load 20-40 tabs on restarting firefox, not just 3-6.

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