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With firefox 4 my saved tabs are not always saved (and I have no recovery tab) if I open firefox through an email link - the old firefox versions didn't do this - solution?

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I do a lot of research on the web and will often have 20+ firefox pages open and firefox generally gives me the option to reopen them with each session. Since downloading firefox 4 this is no longer reliable - if I click on an email link before opening firefox it will default to a new page and dump all my research pages without any apparent way of recovering them except going through history one by one. A huge loss of time! Everything else is great, but I am ready to go back if this feature is not correctable.

I do a lot of research on the web and will often have 20+ firefox pages open and firefox generally gives me the option to reopen them with each session. Since downloading firefox 4 this is no longer reliable - if I click on an email link before opening firefox it will default to a new page and dump all my research pages without any apparent way of recovering them except going through history one by one. A huge loss of time! Everything else is great, but I am ready to go back if this feature is not correctable.

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What's to be corrected? You open Firefox via an external program, and then forget to restore your previous session before closing Firefox - and the previous session is lost. User error.

The proper way of handling that situation is to use History > Restore Previous Session, before closing Firefox. Or install a session manager extension that is capable of saving multiple previous sessions.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/

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Thank you - the history does allow this. In previous firefox versions it was a bit more automatic no matter how you opened it. Thanks again.