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tabs not being retained when starting the app

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JamieEff
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hi

since the recent update to 39 the tabs that are open when i shut down the browser have all been closed when i restart it with the only page showing being the forefox start page. Up to this point it was working fine and I have checked the settings and it still set show windows and tabs from last time

am running firefox 39 on win 8.1

thanks

jamie

hi since the recent update to 39 the tabs that are open when i shut down the browser have all been closed when i restart it with the only page showing being the forefox start page. Up to this point it was working fine and I have checked the settings and it still set show windows and tabs from last time am running firefox 39 on win 8.1 thanks jamie

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guigs
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Sometimes this will happen with a new update, I have seen it when the what's new tour show up. However if this has happened again after restarting Firefox please try these steps:

cor-el
cor-el
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In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.

  • do not clear the Browsing History
  • Clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, passwords, and other website specific data.

Are the backups in the sessionstore-backups folder updated? 

previous.js (cleanBackup: copy of sessionstore.js from previous session that was loaded successfully)
recovery.js (latest version of the sessionstore written during runtime)
recovery.bak (previous version of the sessionstore written during runtime)
upgrade.js-<build_id> (backup created during an upgrade of Firefox)

You can copy a file from the sessionstore-backups folder to the main profile and rename the file to sessionstore.js to replace the current file (make a backup copy of the current sessionstore.js).