Keeping your session in Firefox after reboot

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Jason

Some times when surfing the web I have to shut down the pc, or I want to restart Firefox because of a memory leak, but yet I can’t do that because there are many open tabs with sites that I have to check. I know this sounds like a silly problem but if you face it, it can be a pain in the ***.

Anyway if you are annoyed by this situation as I am, here is a fast solution :

1. Open the task manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) and go to the processes tab.

2. Find the firefox process (firefox.exe) and simple kill it (click on the firefox.exe and then the button “End Process”)

3. You are done. Next time you will open Firefox it will ask you to keep or not to keep the previous session.

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4 Responses to “Keeping your session in Firefox after reboot”

  1. Rami Fayoumi on 06 Feb 2008 at 4:55 am #

    This is actually bad, I used to do it before and sometimes the restored sessions did not include my recently opened tabs. This is due to the fact that Firefox saves the session every once in a while.
    Best Solution so far is the “Session Fix” add-on, it adds a third button “save session” when you want to close your Forefox, so you do not have to kill it.
    You may download it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4542

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  3. trendless on 16 Feb 2008 at 1:04 pm #

    Unless I’m missing some critical part of the “session” that you need to save, under “tools” “options” there is a drop-down box in the “main” area that allows you to decide whether you want your homepage(s) to load upon launching firefox, or if you want to have it re-open the tabs you were using the last time you closed it.

  4. jeroboambramblejam on 09 Nov 2008 at 7:34 pm #

    … or Add-on “Restart Firefox”!

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