How to stop Firefox 18 to restore the previous Session after a Crash

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• How can I stop firefox trying to restore my previous sessions

  Since I updated to firefox 20.0 I had a problem with firefox. Whenever I start firefox I get a message saying that it is so embarrassing to try but not to restore my previous session and it gives me the opportunity to be close the page and go to the home screen, or to restore my previous session. My preferences has the show my home page selected, every time I close Firefox, I close the page by pressing the red x, and then I put the firefox icon or the tab of firefox at the top of my screen and select Exit. I have reset firefox twice and that no longer works.

  A possible cause can be that you first close all Firefox Windows and then close the Firefox application.

  Some noted that closing of Firefox (Firefox > Quit) while the browser window is always open works for them.

• How to restore a previous session after a crash when it is not available?

  We had a power outage, and when my computer is back she just opened a blank session. Restore previous session was not offered as an option - it is greyed out. I tried (probably foolishly) closing and reopening.
  Now, I read a lot of ways to restore them, but many of them that I don't really understand.
  I found the profile folder and a copy of the sessionstore.
  Instructions say to right click and hit properties and then select "previous versions". That's where I come off. I don't seem to have this as an option. There are "General" tabs, "script" of 'security' and 'details' all with several sub-options. I can't seem to find anything that says than previous versions. I even followed a statement that says to do on the record and not on the file, but there is no option called 'previous versions' on either.
  I'm (unfortunately) using windows 8.

  To use an old sessionstore instead of the current file, first of all, close Firefox. Rename sessionstore.js sessionstore.old file, and then rename the sessionstore.bak -datetime sessionstore.js file. When you start Firefox, if it is set to restore the tabs and windows of the previous session should only pick up. If it is set to start with your home page, use history > restore previous Session.

• Firefox does not restore the previous session in the same window?

  Hello

  Everytime I open Firefox and click on the button restore previous session inside that nothing happens. This is the first part of the problem. Then, when I click on my history and click on restore previous session, it does but they will open in a new window. Ago only 3-4 days it started to arrive. I would like to change what is causing this back to how it was such that it is quite annoying when I pinned tabs and I have to keep re pinning.
  I am running the developer version of Firefox.

  Thank you.

  Turns out after some updated, it resets some general settings include the opening to the top of the front legs "at the start of Firefox Developer Edition:

• Home page search is not working / not Possible to restore the previous Session

  After the last update (version 29), the home page of default Firefox search bar has been completely non-functional. If I hit enter or press search, nothing happens. Another (possibly related) problem is that the button 'Restore previous Session' is never present. I can also restore the previous session by clicking on the option of history (it is always grayed out).

  When you look to the top How to start safe mode, I discovered how to reset Firefox to its default value of the plant. I did it and Voila! Problem solved.

• How can I stop Firefox to return to the previous window, as soon as I open a new window?

  In recent versions of Firefox, whenever I chaque fois que j' ouvre opens a new window, as soon as the window opens, Firefox goes back to the previous window, the one that was on the screen before I opened the new window. This is very irritating and not happened in older versions of Firefox.

  Any suggestions how to solve this problem? Thank you!

  FYI, this isn't a forum threaded, so answers are displayed at the bottom...

  DOM.disable_window_flip is a true/false preference that determines whether a script in a web page is allowed to change orientation between the windows of Firefox (in general, to be in front, or pop-under by making the window from which it was opened at the front).

  By default, this preference is set to true to disable the windows around Web sites to move, but it is possible that the setting has been changed. To view/change this preference, you can use the subject: configuration preferences editor.

  (1) in a new tab, type or paste Subject: config in the address bar and press ENTER. Click on the button promising to be careful.

  (2) in the Search box that appears above the listfilter, type or paste the flip and make a pause so that the list is filtered

  (3) double-click dom.disable_window_flip to light it between true and false.

  Edit: Corrected by the post below.

• How to restore a previous session after firefox closed and deforested browsing history, is still any chance to get it there?

  Accidentally closed down the pc and firefox did not return with option restore previous session in the first screen even in history-Restory previous session is gray. My settings are own history after closing firefox.
  Y at - it no change to return on my tabs from previous session even browsing history has been cleaned? I'd appreciate your help!

  In general, FireFox will behave in 1 of 3 ways when restarting after a stoppage.

  1 kill Shutdown
  This occurs when the FireFox process ends with a TerminateProcess() appeal or if the process of FireFox crashes. It's a dirty, no cleaning is done. When restarting after this FireFox will show a dialog "well, this is embarrassing' with options to restore the items selected from the previous session.

  2 force Shutdown
  This occurs when another process ask FireFox to shut down cleanly (for example, a reboot of the PC) by a call to ExitProcessEx() and does not ask confirmation of the user. Normally, when this type of shutdown happens, Firefox will just restore all tabs and sessions without asking. However if Firefox is set automatically delete the history on shutdown, it may not. I suspect that this is your case. I would suggest to the FF team remove that history should be ignored in this case, only a stop of the user must delete the history.

  3 judgment of the user.
  That's when said user Firefox close (by selecting exit or by closing all the tabs etc...). Confirmation is requested to close all tabs (if enabled and more than 1 tab is open). When the computer reboots, nothing is restored.

  Unfortunately, if you have enabled clear auto history, there is no way to recover the previous session. I'm sorry.

• The firefox 19 version restores the previous tabs. Is this a feature or a bug?

  mmmmmm

  You can tell Firefox not to restore your previous tabs if you want to. How can I restore my tabs from last time?

• Version 38.0.1 of Firefox will not restore a previous session by using Tab Mix Plus; all other versions prior to version 38.0 work.

  I installed all versions of Firefox to version 31.0 38.0 and the only one that does not restore a previous session using session Tab Mix Plus restore feature was version 38.0 or 38.0.1 (latest version).

  I think I saw something about this on their support forum, the other day, and the suggestion was to try the current development version:

  • Forum: http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=2
  • versions: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/versions/

  However, you can start a new thread with your specific symptoms to see if you get different advice.

• My macbook froze and I had to turn it off. When restarting and opening ff, ff did not restore the previous session and I lost all the tabs.

  There is no trace of the previous session, to the title of the menu bar. I know it's common, I hope someone has a new response.
  Thank you

  The xtra74pv.default file is the Firefox profile folder, if the file is in the right place and needed to be moved.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

  If you have an older version of the sessionstore.js file from before the crash then you need to replace the current sessionstore.js with the old copy to see if brings back the lost tabs.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore

• Unable to restore the last session after installing the latest version of Firefox + auto install

  I still need help on the following points:

  After you have installed the latest version of Firefox "restore previous Session ' is always grayed out, how to make this work?
  I don't understand the solution on this site. I'm a basic user and never used another thing but windows.

  How to avoid auto installation of Thunderbird and Firefox versions updates? Thunderbird installed the latest version, when I clicked "On Thunderbird" to check the latest version. I had no choice, it just started installation.

  Well, I think that this is a problem when you lose history that you couldn't lose. But I hope that it was only once.

• after update to adobe flash and restart firefox for mac, as requested, cannot restore the previous session

  using macbook pro with os 10.7.5, was recommended to update adobe flash in firefox (22.0). did, which required closing and restarting firefox during the flash update. When you're done, firefox will automatically open to the adobe flash window and restore previous session was grayed out. can not know how to find and restore the tabs that I had used. responses and related issues is not a solution. my settings are all normal and do not seem to report any with the problem. on the contrary, it seems to be the closing and reopening of firefox associated with the flash update that nuked all memory of my last session. is there a solution?

  I found my own solution to my problem! first of all, don't QUIT FIREFOX - to ensure this unwanted session does not become "last session". Instead, open a new window (command-N). in my case, he opened my usual default URL and, while in this window (whether before or after the closing of the first window browser that opened automatically after the update of adobe flash), the option 'restore previous session' in the menu historical reappeared! clicked on it and, therefore, the things everything worked normally.

• Rename the session restore backup does not work, how can I restore previous session after a crash?

  Computer crashed and Firefox don't remember my session. It happened a few weeks ago while I had looked at how to fix and I learned from my mistake and saved the sessionstore.bak file before restarting Firefox. I closed Firefox, deleted sessionstore.js and renamed .bak to js but to start what it does not always restore session. Previous restoration on the history tab still grayed out, about: sessionrestore revealed without tab. I even tried to copy this file and also naming copies as sessionstore-1 & 2. How to operate?

  You can try to restore a previous version of the file sessionstore.js or sessionstore.bak. You must rename the .bak to .js file to make Firefox see this session.

     right-click: Properties > Previous Versions
  

     http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Previous-versions-of-files-frequently-asked-questions
  

     http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
     http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
  

     https://support.mozilla.org/kb/restore-previous-session
  

• Problem restoring last Session in Firefox. It restores the last session without asking for password

  whenever computer stops because of the cut to the top or any other reason while you work in Mozilla Firefox as the use of Facebook. When you turn on the computer and open Firefox it stores the session, without asking for password or username that the effects seriously privacy.i has been using Facebook on Mozilla and my computer shuts down after a few minutes, another has turned on the computer and it went into my account on Facebook because of the last session of restoration. Please, do something about it. This is a larger problem in Firefox

  You can set the browser.sessionstore.privacy_level pref 2 (never) or 1 (no HTTPS, default in the Firefox 3 versions) on the topic: config page to disable the registration of cookies via session restore.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.privacy_level

  To open the topic: config page, type Subject: config in the address bar (address) and press the 'Enter' key, as you type the url of a Web site to open a Web site.
  
  If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access this page.

  • Use the filter at the top bar of the on: page config to more easily spot a preference.
  • Preferences that have changed see the bold (user set).
  • Preferences you can restore the default value or change via the context menu.

• How to restore the previous session from a sessionstore.bak file

  When I tried to open firefox that it automatically updated and deleted the sessionstore.js file. I saved the sessionstore.bak in another case, closed mozilla, changed the extension bak in js in the folder "profiles" Firefox and opened it again, but nothing happened. If the sessionstore.bak file is large 13Ko and seems to contain all the links in my previous session.

  How I force Firefox to start a session by using the information in the sessionstore.bak or .js file, as it should?

  Hello lordsilver2, the method you tried is correct, if does not work maybe the sessionstore.bak (renamed sessionstore.js) is corrupted.

  First make a copy of the file (the renamed sessionstore.js) on your desktop and then try to create a new profile and move the copy in the new profile to see if it works. If the file is corrupt is not sure the books above.

  Thank you