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When I try to restore previous tabs, it opens tabs from a session before those of the previous session.

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cakirby2
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I used the Beta for a while, and when I decided to switch back to normal Firefox (before 5.0, but even after getting 5.0 the problem remains), Firefox is trying to restore tabs that I had before that of the previous session. Example: I had facebook, achievement hunter, and hulu as 3 tabs at one point. Even after having new sessions with different websites (and saving them correctly), when I try to restore a previous session, it goes back to the session with facebook, achievement hunter, and hulu, always with the "whoops" message when I open Firefox. Occasionally the tabs listed in the "whoops" message updates, but never to the previous session. Been having this problem for approx. a month or two now, starting to get quite frustrated. Please Help!

I used the Beta for a while, and when I decided to switch back to normal Firefox (before 5.0, but even after getting 5.0 the problem remains), Firefox is trying to restore tabs that I had before that of the previous session. Example: I had facebook, achievement hunter, and hulu as 3 tabs at one point. Even after having new sessions with different websites (and saving them correctly), when I try to restore a previous session, it goes back to the session with facebook, achievement hunter, and hulu, always with the "whoops" message when I open Firefox. Occasionally the tabs listed in the "whoops" message updates, but never to the previous session. Been having this problem for approx. a month or two now, starting to get quite frustrated. Please Help!

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Alex Gamela
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ok, after dealing with this for a while and not trying the most geeky and complicated solutions involving special files and all that, i went back to basics. I suspected this could be a addon incompatibility with Session Manager. At first i suspected it had anything to do with app tabs but no.

I should say that presently i have in this profile (i have 5 of them) over than 30 running addons and 453 tabs, 450 of them unloaded because of the amazing BarTab addon. So as you can see, it would be hard for me to try different combinations to sort out which plugin was giving me problems.

If you don't use Session Manager i'd recommend it to you, it's useful and it might help you out with your problem.

But if you do, probably that's where the problem lies.

  1. First you need to save you currently open session. Since it always opens the same, get Tab Cloud addon, save it and while you're at it, go to the add on manager and uninstall or disable Session Manager.
  1. Open FF again, and probably you'll have a blank tab, or another recovered session. Anyway, use Tab Cloud to recover the session you were on before. It will open in a new window, so close the previous one.
  1. Go to Options, and make sure FF is recovering your last session. Then reinstall Session manager. My problem was that I couldn't save sessions in Session manager, it gave me a complicated error. This changed it because it's a fresh install.
  1. Close FF again, make sure you have the session you wanted, if not you can always get it back from Tab Cloud. In Tools find Session Manager and try to save the current session. If it's not there, you need to enable it. Go back to the beginning of this step: close, open, tools->session manager, save session.

It should work this time.

Like I said, probably it's just an addon problem. I spent the last 4 hours trying to figure this out, and i can tell I had it ever since 4 came out.

Hope this helps.

cakirby2
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I did not have session manager, and I still have the problem in Safe Mode. I even went as far as uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox altogether, and I continue to have the problem, just this time it is on a different session I had previously. Also, I am noticing that with this problem, Firefox does not ask me to save my session when I go to close it, even though I have it set up to do so. Another part of the problem may be this - whenever Firefox has been closed and I try to open it again (without shutting the computer down or anything), I always have to open it twice because it shows a message that Firefox is unable to open because a session is already running on it, which is not the case. The second time I go to open it, it opens fine (although still with the same problems).