tabs not being retained when starting the app
hi
since the recent update to 39 the tabs that are open when i shut down the browser have all been closed when i restart it with the only page showing being the forefox start page. Up to this point it was working fine and I have checked the settings and it still set show windows and tabs from last time
am running firefox 39 on win 8.1
thanks
jamie
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Sometimes this will happen with a new update, I have seen it when the what's new tour show up. However if this has happened again after restarting Firefox please try these steps:
In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.
- do not clear the Browsing History
- Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" > Settings
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/remove-recent-browsing-search-and-download-history
- Clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, passwords, and other website specific data.
Are the backups in the sessionstore-backups folder updated?
previous.js (cleanBackup: copy of sessionstore.js from previous session that was loaded successfully) recovery.js (latest version of the sessionstore written during runtime) recovery.bak (previous version of the sessionstore written during runtime) upgrade.js-<build_id> (backup created during an upgrade of Firefox)
You can copy a file from the sessionstore-backups folder to the main profile and rename the file to sessionstore.js to replace the current file (make a backup copy of the current sessionstore.js).