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When Opening Firefox, More than 12 tabs are shown even when I had previously closed them.

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When opening a new Firefox browser, my old tabs are again showing, even tho I had removed them prior to closing my last session. How do I permanently remove tabs. My version is 3.6.12, and am using Windows 7.

When opening a new Firefox browser, my old tabs are again showing, even tho I had removed them prior to closing my last session. How do I permanently remove tabs. My version is 3.6.12, and am using Windows 7.

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cor-el
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Does that happen all the time?

If you close the tabs too quickly and immediately close Firefox then it might be possible that sessionstore.js doesn't get updated properly. You can try if ti works if you wait 10 seconds before closing Firefox.

This can also be a problem with the file sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Profile Folder
Delete the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak and any existing files sessionstore-##.js with a number in the left part of the name like sessionstore-1.js to prevent Firefox from restoring a previous session.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore