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!
It works until Firefox applies updates and the next time you open it it automatically loads a "what's new in Firefox" tab erasing your previous session. Then you're SOL unless there's some way around that.
After updates, mine always opens all of my tabs. Maybe check your settings.
I've not started a fresh session of Firefox in years tbh. Not sure why it is different for you.
For reference, holds true on my phone, desktop, sim desktop, programming laptop, hobby laptop, network testing laptop, media laptop, backup management laptop, steam deck, second steam deck, virtual red hat machine, virtual windows machine, and hackintosh. So, a wide variety of environments. Never experienced this issue.
@OP When you have continue session on, closing Firefox using burger menu->Quit restores all windows. I assume this will also keep the pins even without continue session.
I also like that its PDF viewer opens exactly at where I left it at.
Saved my butt a few times already.
Good tip, though I have just hidden the close button with userChrome.css. It does not protect against alt+f4, though..
I'm not judging you, because I'm sure it works for you and makes sense to you, but to me, that way of using a browser sounds like rubber-padded-cell-grade insanity.
I am sorry to do this to you, but I have minimum of 30 tabs open at all times. Send help.
I have at least one Firefox window open on each of about five workspaces, each with anothing up to twenty or thirty tabs open. It's not insanity at all, no way, not at all. What's that nurse? It's time for my dried frog pills? Well ok then.
In my FF I have set the "reopen all tabs that were there when I closed" option, so it never has been a problem
I use this several times per day when I close the wrong tab (or window). :)
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