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My "Restore Previous Session" button is not working anymore. When I click it, nothing happens. How can I fix this?

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When I click the "Restore Previous Session" button on my Firefox home page, nothing happens. It usually restores all of my tabs from the previous session, and now it does nothing.

When I click the "Restore Previous Session" button on my Firefox home page, nothing happens. It usually restores all of my tabs from the previous session, and now it does nothing.

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You can try to delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder.

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
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You can try to delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder.

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
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Thanks a lot! It worked!!

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Yippee, this worked for me as well. Google was to blame, and not Firefox. May be it's a cunning plan of theirs?

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I tried this and it didn't work for me.

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Make sure that you do not use Clear Recent History to clear the Browsing History when you close Firefox.

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Hi cor-el

After deleting the file, that bug is solved. HOORAY!

But it seems like it crashes my About:Home page. Now, there's a blank box below the search bar and it is not responding. Can't use it to search etc. Does this happen to your FF?

Thanks. Much appreciated.

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"But it seems like it crashes my About:Home page. Now, there's a blank box below the search bar and it is not responding. Can't use it to search etc. Does this happen to your FF?"

^^Yeah, this happened to me also after deleting the file, thuogh it's all back to normal now. I was wondering what might've caused so that it doesn't happen again

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A few days back there was a large snippet added that shows a persona preview and that snippet seems to have cause this issue.
That persona preview snippet is still there, so the problem may reappear.


Reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref on the about:config via the right-click context menu to the default on the about:config page.
Set the browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl pref to an empty string to prevent loading that snippet. Close and restart Firefox to make the changes effective.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.
Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.

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It worked! For me it worked only after I repeated2-3 times the procedure; but it worked!

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See also:

  • Bug 700980 – Snippet on the about:home page seems to causing problems with the Restore Previous Session button not working
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It didn't worked for me :(

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@nitinm

What is your problem?

This thread is about an issue caused by a snippet that used iframes and that happened 2 weeks ago.
That has been fixed, so if you have a similar looking problem then it is not that problem, but something else.