If you use Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox in Firefox 3.5 and later to clear the 'Browsing History' when you close Firefox then restoring tabs from the last session ("Save & Quit" or "Show my windows and tabs from last time") doesn't work.

Thank you very much for the reply. I did not use Clear Recent History. I suspect that when I did a basic cleanup [Avast, CCleaner, disc cleaner, SpyBot] I either wiped out a setting or maybe it is a cookie issue, an area which is beyond my pay grade. In the forum I saw advice about starting in FF Safe Mode and selecting save tabs, which I did. It worked once and then reverted to no tabs.

Still struggling with this. When I use Hibernate the tabs come back ok. When I use Shutdown they don't come back. I used the Ff safe start for the above but don't know where to turn. Are there any sources for info on how to learn Ff? They have all these great features which are too mysterious somehow. thx, fred

Did you check the settings in CCleaner for the Firefox application to see if history is selected among others?