One of the things I loved about Firefox 3 was the session restore.
I would have 100 or more tabs open on a couple of windows, my machine would start to crawl and sooner or latter it locked up!
I guess I’m just a browser hoarder
Anyway the system restore built into Firefox 3 saved my butt many times. I would be doing research and BAM…. puter locks up and all my browsing lost. But, thanks to Restore Session I could easily restore every tab I lost and then save the more important material. So….I abused the session restore function and always pushed my machine to the max before it crashed.
One day I updated my version of FF3 and quickly found out that I lost my Session Restore ability. I tried to fix it but no luck so I upgraded to FireFox 4.
I found Session Restore didn’t work on Firefox 4 either. I googled looking for fixes. Nothing I found worked like the original Session Restore. I just couldn’t believe the programers would write session restore out of the new versions of Firefox.
Well after a couple of months I think I finally figured out how to make the session restore work as it did originally.
Try this out:
Go to –>Tools—>Options and follow the below images.
In the above image make sure “Permanent Private Browsing mode” is unticked and make sure “Remember my browsing history” is ticked
Your window should look like this:
Regarding image below:
Now tick the bottom box “Clear History when firefox starts” and the “Settings” tab should become available, so click on “Settings” and the small box below will open up.
Make sure “Browsing History” in Settings for Clearing History is ticked. Click OK and close the box. In the Main Options box I leave “Clear History when Firefox Closes” ticked ….then click OK on the bottom.
Take your browser for a test. Load up 5 or 10 tabs and restart your computer either from Alt+Crt+Delete or Turn Off from the STart button….. when the computer is ready click on the firefox icon and it should load the last five pages or load a Session Restore Tab.
I actually “untick” all the items in the small window except for “cache”
Click on “OK” and the firefox system restore should work perfectly.
Let me know how this works!
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