Comments on: Firefox 2.0 Session Restore

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:58:32 +0000

I myself DON’T WANT it to restore…. however no matter what i do FF ALWAYS tries to restore my last session… i tried this setting it to false, and in the options for startup, it says ‘show my homepage’ when FF starts… so WHY does it ALWAYS try to restore my sessions?

i know this is an old post but this problem bugs me everytime i open FF…. suggestions?

By: Sunny Boy

Sunny Boy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m just glad you can turn this feature off. I don’t like Opera because of it’s restore feature because it’s rather annoying. It’s a superfluous feature that should be left to extensions in my opinion.

By: Xeen

Xeen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good decision no including always-restore feature. I've never ever used it, and I don't find it useful either. If I don't want to terminate a session I either keep my PC running or let the OS handle the "session saving" if I want to turn the computer off. However, improvements like keep text in textboxes are just useful in the case of crash and probably will speed things up as it doesn't need to be handled by overlayed code lines.

By: Aardbert

Aardbert — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What I REALLY want is a feature or extension that will allow me to save a NUMBER of sessions. I may spend hours on one topic one day and have two or three dozen tabs open. The next day I may want to research something entirely different, and won’t want to have all the previous tabs open and hogging my memory. What I really need is the ability to save the first (and the next, and the next) session and be able to restore it from disk at any time, as actual pages, not just as links.

Opera does this beautifully — but only for the last session. Opera (and Firefox 1.5 IIRC) also allows the saving of any number of sessions, but only as sets of links, which load from the Internet as the session is opened — not especially handy if you want to hold onto those three-week-old New York Times articles.

By: Khlo

Khlo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You could try the Session Manager extension.

By: Pete C

Pete C — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Every time I launch Firefox 2.0 session manager launches and prompts to choose new session or restore last. I wish I could disable this annoyance.
I tried installing tab mix plus (latest version for FF2.0) but disabling session restore in it does nothing with the built in one which is causing the problem.
I have searched for about:config edits to disable or remove it and can't find any .
I wish this could be fixed.

By: Blah

Blah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Got it, at last !

It didn't work at first, but it seems you have to set "browser.sessionstore.enabled" to true, and "browser.startup.page" to 3. I'm glad it works, because session manager freezes FF and session saver extension is not working with FF2 (although someone patched it, i didn't check that).

Thanks for the entry !

By: Blaf

Blaf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yeah it works only with parameters browser.sessionstore.enabled and browser.startup.page as described, it's nice feature, thanks to ff developers