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Close firefox, reopen and all tabs are blank. They are showing but all say "New tab" and are blank. I had 10 tabs to sites I needed when I closed. Now they all say "New tab"?

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I closed firefox with 10 tabs open. When I reopen firefox, all 10 tabs show but they all say "New tab" and there is no site there and no site information.

I closed firefox with 10 tabs open. When I reopen firefox, all 10 tabs show but they all say "New tab" and there is no site there and no site information.

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you can find it in HISTORY tab, SHOW ALL HISTORY (for quickly press Ctrl+Shift+H)

if this happens often:

type in the address bar about:config

then press the button i'l be careful i promise

then type in the bar browser.startup.page then double click on it and change the value to 3

press OK, exit firefox and restart.

The next time you open Firefox, everything will be restored to the previous browsing state, 3 tabs or 4 tabs or....

thank you

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This did not help. Not only do I not have the blank 10 tabs from the day before, now I don't even have the empty 10 tabs. It is back to one tab and it is totally blank. Now I am worse off than before. Also the show all history doesn't work because some of the tabs I had open were open for months as I was doing work on the subject matter. Is the solution to literally go through all these and find my tabs? That would take weeks.