Comments on: Quick Tip: Save Windows and Tabs When Restarting Firefox

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:39:03 +0000

I use Session Manager to remember the tabs and for crash recovery.

The show my windows and tabs from the last time doesn’t work in my Fx 3.5 when I close Fx with the option Delete history when I close firefox in the Privacy tab…

By: fastbullet

fastbullet — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:05:28 +0000

I just installed tab mix plus and my tab bar went missing.

Went through the settings, applied and okayed settings. Still no tab bar.

Went back to Extensions, disabled tab mix plus and my tab bar came home.

I think it’s safe to say I need to un-install tab bar plus.

By: fastbullet

fastbullet — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:30:41 +0000

It’s a good thing Firefox has a crash restore as it is necessary to use more often than I like.
The shame of it is, it works when it feels like it, as does the built-in saving of sessions and open to home page.

At the moment I’m using the Linux version of 3.5 and I have to say Firefox has outdone itself at wrecking things that worked in previous versions. This version is truly a mess.

Thanks for the available options (restart ext & tab mix plus). Surely one or the other will function better than the default garbage.

By: MadModder

MadModder — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:56:07 +0000

jt: Place your set of bookmarks in a subfolder in the bookmark list. Then when you hover the folder, and the submeny appears, you can pick “open all in tabs” at the bottom.

By: markusN

markusN — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:01:10 +0000

great stuff, thanks a bunch!

By: jt

jt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:03:48 +0000

When I’m writing, I kinda want a certain SET of tabs to be open, one for each research tool/site I use. Any way to save sets of tabs without having to open each one from bookmarks?

By: tdlee

tdlee — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:48:49 +0000

You said that “['Show my windows and tabs from last time'] makes the homepage setting somewhat irrelevant.”

Perhaps somewhat, but not entirely. You can still use the home page as a quickly accessible bookmark. Press ALT-HOME (on a Windows system — I don’t know the equivalent on other OSs) and you get to your Home Page or pages quickly.

One side-effect of this is the ability to have a particular set of sites that will open with a simple two keystroke shortcut.

For instance, I have my home page set to my gmail account and google reader. When I press ALT-HOME, both sites are loaded in tabs. Use the Pipe symbol (|) between sites to separate. My home page is set to:

mail.google.com | http://www.google.com/reader

This lets me close the tabs after I’ve read my mail and feeds (so that I am not distracted by incoming messages and can actually get some work done!), but get to them very quickly when I want them later.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:08:16 +0000

I have Firefox/2.0.0.4 and liked the idea of the TabMixedPlus, however, the “Sessions” tab does not have the Start/Exit Restore or Preserve tabs shown in this url. I want that functionality but am limited in the tool I downloaded. Thanks, Ed

By: Cliff

Cliff — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:37:54 +0000

Okay K&M Matchcase is fine, somehow I got a call and they didn’t like the off word describing or near match case. k m match cases are fine, so sorry, laterzz

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:16:58 +0000

What I generally do is open up the task manager and go to processes. If you kill the firefox process, the next time you start firefox, it will ask you if you want to restore your previous tabs. This allows you to exit firefox and then restart with all your old tabs. It’s not the most elegant solution, though.