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when i installed firefox 4 i lost my save and quit

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When I installed an update for firefox i lost my save and quit

When I installed an update for firefox i lost my save and quit

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Firefox now always stores the old session, and you can access it by going to the History menu and selecting "Restore Previous Session"


If you always open the last set of tabs, an alternative approach is this:

  1. Click the orange Firefox button, then select options to open the options window
  2. Go to the General panel
  3. Change the setting "When Firefox starts" to "Show my windows and tabs from last time"
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Went to the history and selected restore previous session.. and didnt help ..still no save and quit... also went to the firefox button and i dont have a selection that says options.

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If you want Firefox to display the message to save the session, it can be turned back on by changing some preferences.

  1. Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
  2. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
  3. Locate the preference browser.tabs.warnOnClose, if its value is set to false, double-click on it to change its value to true
  4. Repeat this for these 3 preferences browser.warnOnQuit, browser.warnOnRestart and browser.showQuitWarning
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Did # 1 ... #2 accept the warning message that appears... there is no warning message... Do you have any other solutions?

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Make sure that you not run Firefox in (permanent) Private Browsing - Use Firefox without saving history mode.

  • You enter Private Browsing mode if you select: Tools > Options > Privacy > History: Firefox will: "Never Remember History"
  • To see all History and Cookie settings, choose: Tools > Options > Privacy, choose the setting Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
  • Uncheck: [ ] "Permanent Private Browsing mode"
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I think you only normally only see the warning message the first time, so you may be able to ignore step #2 as not being applicable.

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Permanent and private browsing mode is not checked... and the clear history when firefox closes is not checked... everything else is checked.. and still no save and quit...

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I by pass #2 and there is no # 3 either... HELP

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Did you find the prefs from Tony's post on the about:config page?

Is session restore enabled?


It is possible that there is a problem with the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Profile Folder

Delete the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.

If you see files sessionstore-##.js with a number in the left part of the name like sessionstore-1.js then delete those as well.
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups to get lost, so you will have to create them again (make a note).

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Sorry i give up ..I think i will have someone uninstall firefox.. I don't want to start deleting files. Cause if something else goes wrong ,I am stuck with two things that i am trying to fix. And i really don"t know what the heck i am doing..This is all new to me...

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If you do ask someone to uninstall Firefox it may help you both if you let them read this information first.

Cor-els advice will have been carefully considered and should work, but create the minor problem you have been warned about, and it was therefore suggested that you make notes so you can restore the settings (AppTabs TabGroups &/or Tabs).

Blindly uninstalling Firefox will probably not help. It may not be a good idea because either:

  • it will not solve your problem, because it retains the profile files some of which are causing the problem
    • your problems do not seem to relate to the main files
    • (Think of it as : Firefox uses two separate sections keeping one for the main workings, and another for your settings)
  • or it will cause problems, because you will delete the profile
    • you will loose all settings , bookmarks and passwords
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You can create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.

See:

There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.

If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)

See:


In that new profile the prefs will be default, so you may want to check the warn prefs if you want the warning.

In that new profile session restore should work properly via History > Restore Previous Session or via Tools > Options > General > Startup: "When Firefox Starts": "Show my windows and tabs from last time"