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submitted 1 year ago by oce@jlai.lu to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I generally have a "home" Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to "lose" it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

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[-] entropicshart@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I wish Firefox had a method to restore windows after a restart. Losing all my tabs across multiple windows due to work required updates is a huge pain.

[-] Robmart@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

This is literally a thing? You just go to options and tick General -> Startup -> Open previous windows and tabs. It is quite literally the first option in the interface. I only mean to be a slight bit rude, but did you not even take a cursory look through the options?

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Don't worry about being rude. Spreading demeaning misinformation about free software, especially one as important for the Web as Firefox, should be frowned upon.

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, I'd like it to be able to do it sometimes without having to set it to happen every time. In other words, I'd like a "restore previous session" UI element in the history interface.

I should probably look into some of the extensions folks in this thread are talking about.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

There is a "recently closed windows" section in the history area. You can get all your tabs back.

[-] superfiercelink@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you can use extensions, I use the Tab Session Manager extension. It has a ton of features too but the big one is auto saving your sessions so you can always restore it all after a restart.

[-] aaaa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's funny, it does do this when Windows restarts outside of your control.

But if you manually trigger a reboot, it assumes you closed all your windows intentionally.

At least that's how it behaves for me

[-] natanael@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Force kill it, lol

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Any idea why Brave does this by default? I didn't ask it to, but it always opens the ten or so tabs on restart

[-] oce@jlai.lu -3 points 1 year ago

I don't understand this thread, this is exactly what I'm talking about in my OP.

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