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Firefox is remembering my history but not allowing me to restore sessions or remember tabs.

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Firefox>History shows a list of recent websites, so I can see that it's saving my history, but firefox isn't restoring my tabs on startup. alt>t>o>general is set to show my tabs from the previous session. The firefox homepage displays instead, with no option to restore previous session in the bottom right corner, and a greyed "Restore Previous Session" option in Firefox>History As suggested, I've tried deleting sessionstore.jss and sessionstore.bak, and privacy history is set to always store.

This issue started today out of the blue and I can't find a solution.

Firefox>History shows a list of recent websites, so I can see that it's saving my history, but firefox isn't restoring my tabs on startup. alt>t>o>general is set to show my tabs from the previous session. The firefox homepage displays instead, with no option to restore previous session in the bottom right corner, and a greyed "Restore Previous Session" option in Firefox>History As suggested, I've tried deleting sessionstore.jss and sessionstore.bak, and privacy history is set to always store. This issue started today out of the blue and I can't find a solution.

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That was already the case. I left for the weekend and when I came back, the problem was fixed. I'm not sure what the issue was.

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cor-el
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Check that you do not use "Clear history when Firefox closes" to clear the "Browsing History"
Doing this will prevent tabs opening from the previous session

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That was already the case. I left for the weekend and when I came back, the problem was fixed. I'm not sure what the issue was.