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How to I configure settings to get the "Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts" prompt when closing?

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When I close Firefox, I would like a prompt asking me if I wish to save my open tabs. Your help menu showed an item for when the prompt isn't happening, but the only answer it gave was "your settings are not configured properly." What do I need to do?

When I close Firefox, I would like a prompt asking me if I wish to save my open tabs. Your help menu showed an item for when the prompt isn't happening, but the only answer it gave was "your settings are not configured properly." What do I need to do?

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TonyE
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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 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

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"