How do I stop Firefox from closing any tabs or sessions automatically?
If I have a single session open Firefox will prompt me to restore the previous session but with 2 windows, which sometimes happen with some overflow tabs I dont care about, the most recent window gets saved (The one with 5 tabs instead of the one with 165 tabs) and I lose my entire browsing history. This issue actually has forced me to swap browsers on numerous occasions out of pure frustration over the loss of research. I use TooManyTabs to save some but it becomes so tedious to manage in that way, same with the tab groups, my browsing is non-linear and doesnt always follow a set of rules you can easily group to so its usually the most valuable pages I lose links to. There really needs to be a solution for this.
~FireMonkey
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Good to hear you got that window back.
I don't envy the UI designers, trying to make more and more things visible with less and less space. And when they create adaptive UIs that seem to read your mind, it's creepy.
It might be a good idea after restoring a session the first time to open a help page explaining how to use the History menu to restore more windows and tabs. The problem with the one-time pages is no one seems to remember them when they need them. Sigh.
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Could you clarify when this happens:
- After a crash, in other words, when Firefox is not shutting down normally?
- After you use Exit (File menu > Exit or orange Firefox button > Exit)?
- After you shut down Firefox in some other way?
After restoring a session, you may be able to open some additional windows from the History menu > Recently Closed Windows.
By default, Firefox tracks up to 3 closed windows. You can increase the number of windows Firefox remembers by changing a hidden setting. Please see this thread for the step-by-step: change number of recently closed windows firefox remembers.
Also, if you tend to keep these tabs open over multiple sessions and find that only occasionally that window gets lost, consider using the Session Manager extension to save multiple session histories so you could roll back to an earlier session if needed.
Recently Closed Windows did the trick, I was looking under recently closed tabs but even now after the past few days my lost session is still there. I have lost sessions on crashes but that was on an older version, I will keep an eye out since this feature is there and see if the issue pops up again.
Your help is greatly appreciated, I'll certainly make use of these features in the future. Im not sure if theres a possible way to make it more intuitive so the user is more aware of options that suit the way they browse or not.
I typically run a single persistent session for months and rarely close every tab since alot of it is research for projects Im currently working on. As stated I do use toomanytabs but that has a kind of out of sight out of mind mentality Ive found, having lots of tabs open forces me to prioritize my browsing load.
Thanks again.
~FireMonkey
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Good to hear you got that window back.
I don't envy the UI designers, trying to make more and more things visible with less and less space. And when they create adaptive UIs that seem to read your mind, it's creepy.
It might be a good idea after restoring a session the first time to open a help page explaining how to use the History menu to restore more windows and tabs. The problem with the one-time pages is no one seems to remember them when they need them. Sigh.
Lol adaptive UI, now theres an idea much like the adaptive parsing idea where a computer could learn the way you write code and develop a compiler on the fly specifically for your short hand :)