In that case, you could try this <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/> addon. Once installed, you can go session manager > session manager options > Startup and Shutdown > change the startup option to 'show my windows and tabs from last time'
It does seem Firefox is taking a strange direction, hopefully they come back around. On 22/10/16 07:32, Gary Dale wrote: > On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: >> >> Are you accessing the restore button through the default home page? >> If this is where the button has disappeared from, you can try >> accessing it through the settings button > history > restore. Or >> enable the menu bar > history > restore. >> >> If your already using this method, sorry I'm not sure what happened >> to it. Working fine 45.3.0 >> >> Hope this helps. >> > > Thanks. The settings button | History has a "Restore Closed Tabs" > option that isn't in the History pulldown. When you first start > Firefox, the option reads "Restore Closed Windows". Neither actually > does the same thing as the "restore previous session" button used to > do. I have no idea what criteria Firefox uses to decide which > windows/tabs to restore, but they aren't the ones that were open when > I closed Firefox. > > There also doesn't seem to be way of customizing the menu bar to > include the option, or even the option in settings button | History > section. The History | Restore Closed Tabs is gone. > > I'm using Firefox 45.4.0. > > I preferred it when Firefox automatically restored your last session. > I didn't mind it when it started asking you nor even when it made you > press a button on the startup page. I gather from the increasing > difficulty in restoring the previous session, someone has decided that > people simply shouldn't do it. :) > >
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