Firefox 2.0: How To Always Restore Your Session

Contributed by shamanstears October 24, 2006  
Tagged: Mozilla Firefox

Firefox 2.0 allows you to restore your sessions after a system crash, but you can adjust this so that it restores your session each time you open the browser. To do this, follow the steps in this Tech-Recipe.

1. In the Address Bar type about:config

2. Press Enter.

3. Right-click in the browser window and select New, then Boolean.

4. In the resulting popup, type browser.sessionstore.resume_session.

5. Click OK.

6. Select True.

7. Click OK.

8. Click Tools and select Options.

9. Under Startup, use the dropdown for When Firefox starts, and select Show my windows and tabs from last time.

10. Click OK.