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All my tabs are lost after downloading an add on. The tabs restart showing my default homepage.

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All my tabs are lost after downloading an add-on. The tabs restart showing my default homepage. Do I have to have all tabs closed before downloading a Firefox add-on? Even the Firefox add-on website restarts as my default homepage. Is there an add-on to keep this from happening?

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Every time Firefox opened

== Always

All my tabs are lost after downloading an add-on. The tabs restart showing my default homepage. Do I have to have all tabs closed before downloading a Firefox add-on? Even the Firefox add-on website restarts as my default homepage. Is there an add-on to keep this from happening? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Always

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Diito. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6

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Diito. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 GTB7.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

No matter what I do now since the last update, only the home page opens. Even if I set FF to open a blank page, it still opens home page.

I checked the setting in about:config as per forum posting, but that was properly set to TRUE.

The only work-around for now is: - before closing FF, right-click on any tab and select 'Bookmark All Tabs', now close FF - next time you open FF, click Bookmarks menu, Recently Bookmarked, Open All in tabs

The last add-on I added was for AutoIT menu.