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"show my windows and tabs from last time" does not work

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kenjay
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This setting under 'Preferences/General/When Firefox starts:' will not work - it just opens up on the home page every time. It has always been my chosen preference and worked fine until as recently as a week ago, but then suddenly one day it refused to work. It was very close to a time when the iMac said it wanted to instal software updates, but I am not 100% sure whether the problem occurred just before before or just after that. I have 4.0 but this happened before I installed it - I only tried 4.0 to see if it would fix the problem. It didn't. The 'Show a blank page' option works, as does the 'Show my home page.' But when windows and tabs from last time is checkmarked, it returns only to the homepage on startup. I have tried rebooting the computer - no change.

This setting under 'Preferences/General/When Firefox starts:' will not work - it just opens up on the home page every time. It has always been my chosen preference and worked fine until as recently as a week ago, but then suddenly one day it refused to work. It was very close to a time when the iMac said it wanted to instal software updates, but I am not 100% sure whether the problem occurred just before before or just after that. I have 4.0 but this happened before I installed it - I only tried 4.0 to see if it would fix the problem. It didn't. The 'Show a blank page' option works, as does the 'Show my home page.' But when windows and tabs from last time is checkmarked, it returns only to the homepage on startup. I have tried rebooting the computer - no change.

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scottparat
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same problem for me....except, when I close ff, it goes back to a set of windows and tabs from about 3 months ago

SandertjeP
SandertjeP
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For me it wasn't Firefox making a mess of things. If you use CCLEANER or something similar, tell it NOT to clear your Firefox SESSION. That cleared this ghastly tab thing up for me right away.

pjdc3
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EXACT same symptoms... Uninstalled 7.0.1... Installed 8.0 Beta3... NO difference. Could this be a Java problem? My 'Security Essentials' caught 3 "bad" files (quarantined) in the last update.

I uninstall Java, then installed... java version "1.7.0_02" it did Not solve the problem... guess it's not a 'Java thing' :-)

SOLVED - Worked for me, it might for you too... If you have already set Options > General tab to "Show my windows & tabs from last time", and it still does not work... try Options > Privacy tab (toward the bottom of the window) UnCheck the "Clear history when Firefox closes'' (Click OK).

You can manualy clear your History after a session... before closing your last browser window... Firefox button > History > click "Clear Recent History"... in the window you may need to click the "Details" button to view, and then select the items you want to clear. Click "Clear Now".

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