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closing popup last - broken restore previous session

philipp.ewald
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When i close my "main" Firefox window and after that the opened popups, this breaks my "restore previous session" setting.

this is not the first time because sometime i forget to close the popups first...

When i close my "main" Firefox window and after that the opened popups, this breaks my "restore previous session" setting. this is not the first time because sometime i forget to close the popups first...

Chosen solution

Use one of these to close Firefox if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the Firefox Title bar to avoid losing important windows because only the last closed window is restored.

  • "3-bar" menu button -> Exit (Power button)
  • Windows: File -> Exit
  • Mac: Firefox -> Quit Firefox
  • Linux: File -> Quit

Firefox can restore by default three closed windows, so you can check "History -> Recently Closed Tabs/Windows".

  • about:config => browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo
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philipp.ewald
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i thinks this is wrong and a bug Pinned tap everything lost

Modified by philipp.ewald

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

Use one of these to close Firefox if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the Firefox Title bar to avoid losing important windows because only the last closed window is restored.

  • "3-bar" menu button -> Exit (Power button)
  • Windows: File -> Exit
  • Mac: Firefox -> Quit Firefox
  • Linux: File -> Quit

Firefox can restore by default three closed windows, so you can check "History -> Recently Closed Tabs/Windows".

  • about:config => browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo
philipp.ewald
philipp.ewald Question owner
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I have set this to 10 and its works well...... i had more then 10 tap.... and firefox can restore them but not if i close this window last?

AH! There was a "Window" with (pgadmin (and 21 Taps more) )

In the past this was better...

Modified by philipp.ewald