Enable Save Tabs on Exit for Firefox 4

166 Responses to “Enable Save Tabs on Exit for Firefox 4”

• Chutney May 8, 2012 at 10:27 pm

  I can’t get this to work on FireFox 12.0… Anyone else who has had better luck with that?
• Cece Writer May 7, 2012 at 12:58 pm

  I love techies with great workable tips! Merci bien!
• Gianni April 24, 2012 at 7:16 am

  Great. Thanks.
• Iftekhar Hussaini March 27, 2012 at 10:15 pm

  thank mate 
• Tpman2004-misc January 3, 2012 at 11:53 am

  Just what I was searching for! Thanxx!
• Shajahan A Kharim December 16, 2011 at 4:14 am

  Thanxxxxxxxxxx
• Anonymous December 5, 2011 at 1:29 am

  Thanks for the tip, it worked perfectly on FF 8.0.1
• Benjamin Lyddon November 26, 2011 at 11:31 am

  Doesn’t seem to work with Firefox 8.0
• msjones September 28, 2011 at 6:24 am

  it worked thank you :)
• jbbb September 24, 2011 at 7:21 pm

  thank you so muchhhhh <#####
• fufu September 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm

  Thanks a lot
• Atli September 4, 2011 at 2:14 am

  It used to work but not anymore! The value says True, and still I get a warning that I’m about to close tabs, not the option to save them. It worked fine until just a few moments ago, when it just happened to stop working. How do I fix this?
• Roger form Montana August 30, 2011 at 6:47 pm

  …just wanted to add to the comment I posted that I am using Firefox version 6 and this procedure still works …thanks again!
• Roger form Montana August 30, 2011 at 6:43 pm

  Thanks,

  It worked perfectly just as you said it would …thanks for the clear pictured sample instructions …Perfect!
• Koshii August 21, 2011 at 10:36 am

  Thank you so much worked perfectly. Instructions were simple and straight forward!
• Shevy Bee August 17, 2011 at 7:04 pm

  Thanks very much it worked and your instructions were quite straight forward!
• Sourav July 26, 2011 at 2:27 am

  Thanks i get help from your article
• asdf July 18, 2011 at 12:33 pm

  Thank you soooooooo much!!!
• JOEY JO JO July 16, 2011 at 9:12 pm

  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! XOXOXOX
• Edgar Castro July 15, 2011 at 9:32 am

  It works! Thank you!
• Magno July 14, 2011 at 9:10 pm

  Excellent tip. Now I am reconsidering to use Mozilla as my default browser. Congratulations!!!!!
• chi-town girl July 8, 2011 at 12:03 am

  Thank you
• freeware July 6, 2011 at 7:40 pm

  thanks i follow steps and it’s solved
• Adam June 29, 2011 at 11:40 am

  Also works with Firefox 5. Thanks so much.
• md.khaled June 28, 2011 at 3:21 pm

  thanx man…strait forward help…
• Mouktik June 24, 2011 at 5:09 am

  thnaks a loTTT…don’t understand why the Firefox team decided to throw it out…
• Cole June 22, 2011 at 11:45 pm

  Thank you a million! It works great with Firefox 5 as well!
• sindoo June 21, 2011 at 8:29 pm

  hi
  after doing this also i could not save my tabs can i know the reason
• moi toi June 21, 2011 at 2:44 pm

  very easy and very cool !!!

  Thanxxx a bunch
• jeff June 17, 2011 at 6:43 am

  thanks man i thought that there was no way to get the save buttom back unless u go back to number 3, i checked the options tab for number4 but couldn’t find a way to make it save my tabs! this was VERY EASY TO DO!! :) THANK YOU SO MUCH
• lee June 16, 2011 at 10:50 pm

  wow, really thx. really lazy to bookmark all those links.
• Ida June 15, 2011 at 5:04 am

  Youre the best!! Thank you so much
• ejan June 13, 2011 at 5:57 pm

  thanks mate. nice tutorial. easy and fast.
• Mange June 12, 2011 at 12:17 am

  Brilliant, thanks a lot.
• ken June 11, 2011 at 4:22 pm

  love it! thanks!
• Dinesh Kumar Shaw June 10, 2011 at 3:16 pm

  Thanks for sharing…
• pantelis June 8, 2011 at 3:24 am

  nice post :) thnx
• mental June 7, 2011 at 12:14 am

  thanks a lot, man
• Rifki June 5, 2011 at 12:14 am

  nice post, really helped. I must say thank you :D
• Gaggo June 1, 2011 at 7:12 am

  thx a lot, man. you are my “idol of the day®”
• Dudley Fuddpucker May 30, 2011 at 5:27 am

  Way easy – thx
• dude May 27, 2011 at 5:54 pm

  thanks :)
• jess May 27, 2011 at 3:48 pm

  Thanks, I was missing this feature very much!
  Now I just need to find out how to make address bar show AGAIN all the urls redirectioning instead of this “about:blank” stupid feature
• rajiv kumar mishra May 27, 2011 at 2:15 pm

  thank you. It is helpful really.
• Amy May 27, 2011 at 6:46 am

  Works great! Thanks :)
• Lucy May 25, 2011 at 7:11 pm

  Thank you so much, it finally worked!
• Christiana May 25, 2011 at 2:32 pm

  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! IT WORKED FOR ME!!!!! ;))))
• Waltman May 25, 2011 at 3:11 am

  Nice!! it worked great!! thanks Raymond.
• FAUSTO MXLI May 21, 2011 at 6:52 am

  Thanks a lot works great!!!
• Blackwolf May 17, 2011 at 10:14 pm

  You’re a god!
  Take care man, some day you’ll save one or many lives…
  (Y)
• erin May 17, 2011 at 5:21 pm

  Oh, It was very valuable thanks allot :))
• V May 17, 2011 at 4:06 pm

  thank you!!!
• User May 16, 2011 at 5:50 pm

  You are a lifesaver
  Thanks you so much =)
• Maria May 15, 2011 at 10:13 am

  I was afraid to fiddle with it after the pop-up warning but I trusted your advice, clicked on “I’ll be careful”, followed the step, and it worked GREAT! Thanks so much!
• Cordless May 15, 2011 at 3:26 am

  thanks a lot..:)
• ishtiak May 13, 2011 at 7:22 pm

  you are my savior man…thanx a lot…
• Jacqy May 11, 2011 at 11:09 am

  Thx, Raymond. And i guess sysulzh is right. You can restore the previous session from the history menu.

  If you forget things quite often or just like being asked every time, this is the way to go.

  But, what i really think as lame is that “Firefox” button. It added a useless step on selecting options. You can roll back to Firefox 3 style, by right clicking an “empty” space in the browser and click “Menu Bar”.
• mek May 10, 2011 at 12:51 pm

  thankx it really workx
• designi1 May 9, 2011 at 4:16 am

  Great tip…thanks!
• sysulzh May 8, 2011 at 1:04 pm

  Well, you could do that but it seems no need in FF 4.
  FF4 will always save the last sessions automatically. You can restore the last sessions (tabs) from menu History->Restore Previous Session.
• Idaho Jill May 6, 2011 at 9:32 pm

  oh thank you thank you thank you! I lost them all because I didn’t have time to search how to do this last night, but I didn’t want the internet on all night. I was not a happy camper – so thank you! you made my morning!
• Albert May 5, 2011 at 3:29 am

  Works beautifully as you have shown in your instructions. The screen shots were a great help.
  Perhaps you make it even better by telling us to open another Firefox window and then flip back and forth to read your instructions. And do not forget to close the second FF browser to activate.

  Thanks a bunch
• homestilo May 4, 2011 at 9:18 am

  Thank you SO much for this! Wish I’d read it before uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox…several times.
• Eliot May 3, 2011 at 11:23 am

  This doesn’t work.

  I have FF4.01 and when I quit it STILL asks to close the tabs, and doesn’t restore them upon startup.

  I have to restore from the ‘recently closed windows.

  Not quite, eh?

  Rgds
  Eliot
• Raul Herrera April 30, 2011 at 7:35 pm

  Hi, I did the above: ” 1. Type about:config at the address bar and hit enter.

  2. Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button

  3. At the filter bar, type browser.showQuitWarning and hit enter.

  4. You can either double click on it to change the value from false to true, or right click on it and select Toggle.”

  But it doesn’t ask me if I want to save my tabs, it just closes – and saves the tabs, but I would like to have it question me if I want to save the tabs.

  Any suggestions?

  Raul Herrera
• Alex April 30, 2011 at 5:35 am

  Lame that they disabled it by default, it’s like the best browser feature there is.
• Matt Heller April 28, 2011 at 3:51 pm

  you made it so simple AND easy to understand with your screen shots. Well done! Thank you!
  Have a great day, Raymond!
• MD April 28, 2011 at 4:38 am

  Oh gosh you made my day. Thanks a lot! <3
• assfgfg April 27, 2011 at 5:30 pm

  thank you , it’s important for me
• Patrick K. April 27, 2011 at 3:17 pm

  thanks man, at first i looked at the official site and it was absolutely useless. then i found you site and solved the problem in 10 seconds
• rob harrison April 26, 2011 at 12:08 am

  never posted on a forum before. this had prompted me to.

  Thanks :) very easy to understand and works great :) thanks :)
• Addy April 25, 2011 at 11:19 pm

  I really needed this, thanks a lot ! :)
• Eduard April 25, 2011 at 4:51 am

  Excellent, it was wery simple and useful!
  Thanks a lot!
• Angel April 20, 2011 at 5:22 am

  Thanks!
• Sarah April 19, 2011 at 11:52 am

  Perfect. :) I really missed this feature since updating. I’m glad they didn’t totally get rid of it. Thanks for the walk-through!
• MG April 14, 2011 at 9:19 pm

  Straightforward and simple. Thanks!
• leakeg April 14, 2011 at 12:31 am

  huzzzah!

  strange decision by the developers to change the option, but thanks for the tutorial!
• cateus April 12, 2011 at 9:01 pm

  Thank you very much……
• oggmeista April 12, 2011 at 7:08 pm

  tbh silly idea to change this setting by mozilla, Its pretty obvious that people want to keep there tabs history

  an own goal I think but thanks for this solution my friend
• Frank April 11, 2011 at 7:55 pm

  doesn’t work for me :(
  Set that value, restarted FF, restarted PC, still no Save-button.

  Any idea? May it interfere with NoScript or another plugin?

  Thanks, Frank
• gimpshrimp April 10, 2011 at 12:25 am

  hey thanks a lot
• Ojas April 9, 2011 at 8:19 pm

  Thank you very much!
• Rajiv April 8, 2011 at 10:14 pm

  Thanks a lot!
• apotsi April 7, 2011 at 8:45 pm

  Excellent directions. Thank you very much.
• Tiny April 7, 2011 at 5:25 pm

  thanks!!!
• kaizerkaos April 7, 2011 at 7:14 am

  very nice, this is exactly what i was looking for. thank you, man.
• 7a$o0n April 7, 2011 at 2:08 am

  Finally I can save my tabs !
  Thnx .. it works
• seagem April 6, 2011 at 11:58 pm

  i am glad, too. very clear instructions!!!
• Outi April 6, 2011 at 4:38 pm

  Thanks! That was a very easy solution to a problem that I found totally frustrating! I was planning to switch back to the old Firefox already…
• PaulW April 5, 2011 at 12:17 am

  This was starting to annoy me!

  Thanks very much, very helpful. Don’t know why the developers disabled this by default.

  Thanks.
• GrahamG April 3, 2011 at 9:09 pm

  I was wondering where this had disappeared to!

  I’m really glad I found your page. Very helpful and clearly presented. Thank you.
• Julie April 3, 2011 at 2:22 am

  Thank you!!!! Such a great feature. Strange they got rid of this default.
• visha joshi April 2, 2011 at 11:54 am

  Thank a lot !!
• Anonymous April 1, 2011 at 3:23 pm

  Thank you sir. This helped a lot!
• gibson April 1, 2011 at 12:03 pm

  tq very much…its work
• Kevin April 1, 2011 at 10:27 am

  Thank you so much!

  Stupid Tab Mix Plus messed up my setting.
• Bryan April 1, 2011 at 12:13 am

  Thanks. This is a feature I use a lot.
• Sycsa March 31, 2011 at 2:31 pm

  Thanks a lot !
• Ravi March 30, 2011 at 6:22 pm

  Thanks a ton!!!
• kcl March 30, 2011 at 2:08 pm

  Thank you very much
• Ralph March 30, 2011 at 4:14 am

  Thank you.
• Steve March 29, 2011 at 7:25 pm

  Worked great – thanks
• Babak March 29, 2011 at 6:59 am

  Thx alot.
• Andrew March 28, 2011 at 9:01 pm

  perfect, exactly the help and information required to fix this problem without complicated comments and instruction…congrats…
• saman March 28, 2011 at 7:44 pm

  wow thank you
• Rie March 28, 2011 at 11:26 am

  it works perfectly, thanks! :D
• mubashir March 28, 2011 at 2:27 am

  thanx alot for this wonderful tip :)
• b March 28, 2011 at 12:03 am

  Thank you so much!
• T - CORP. March 27, 2011 at 11:02 pm

  I think I know why developer disable this function by default.

  Because now when you exit a browser. It does automatically save by default.

  You can set up it in

  Options> General> When firefox starts “Show my windows and tabs from last time”
• zeestom March 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm

  Hey raymond thaaank yuuuu million times
• abc March 27, 2011 at 12:41 pm

  Thanks a lot. you are a real hero..
• lildoro March 27, 2011 at 8:13 am

  Thanks a lot, very helpful!
• radiant-glow March 27, 2011 at 5:29 am

  excellent :) thanx
• thanx4sharing66 March 27, 2011 at 1:20 am

  thx!! i was considering not updating because of this..now i can still be in love with firefox!! u da man, raymond!!!
• Ravinder Saxena March 26, 2011 at 11:12 pm

  Thanks a lot for the info. It worked for me.
• karci79 March 26, 2011 at 9:33 pm

  A LOT!!!
• MIke jackson March 26, 2011 at 6:42 pm

  Thanks Raymond,

  What the frig was the matter with the Firefox deveolpers not making the save tabs option default??
• asd March 26, 2011 at 5:06 pm

  thx man!!!
• di March 26, 2011 at 1:18 am

  hi!thanx for the info! it’s very helpful since i wal almost frustrated with the ‘non-save tabs’.
• Adriano Labate March 25, 2011 at 1:55 pm

  Thank you, it was what I was looking for.
• Luis Fernando Imperator March 25, 2011 at 11:29 am

  i love you
• 2percent March 25, 2011 at 11:10 am

  The tabs are saved by default. Select history and then select restore previous session.
• mar87 March 25, 2011 at 5:13 am

  Thank you very much for sharing :D
• JoshuaH March 25, 2011 at 4:09 am

  Thanks a lot mate.. I also find it odd they would disable this by default, and have no way to toggle it thru the GUI.
• ch March 25, 2011 at 3:52 am

  It’s works. Thanks a lot
• from kor March 25, 2011 at 3:48 am

  thanks lot
• Robyn March 25, 2011 at 1:11 am

  you rock! thanks much.
• ahsiang March 24, 2011 at 2:16 pm

  I still hesitate to move to 4.0 because some addon that I use daily is not 4.0 ready yet……. any easy method to check if the addon is ready for 4.0 with messy with my current 3.6.15?
• Deex March 24, 2011 at 1:36 pm

  Worked a treat, thankyou!
• Patrick March 24, 2011 at 11:33 am

  Thank You! I have been looking for a solution on the net. Luckily I found your site. Good Job!
• justphil41 March 24, 2011 at 9:20 am

  Thanks. I knew you could do this but could not find the line on about:config. Very helpful
• Tommo March 24, 2011 at 9:16 am

  Thanks alot for this!
• Thomas March 24, 2011 at 7:32 am

  That was a great call on save and quit. Do you know how to speed up u torrent while on wifi or public internet. I thank you for your help.
• xDR1TeK March 24, 2011 at 6:18 am

  Dang!!! works just as explained, thanks a lot Raymond…
• Daniel Woolnough March 24, 2011 at 6:11 am

  Firefox remembers your tabs without having to do all that. Just close Firefox with any amount of tabs and when you open again, on the default homepage, just click restore tabs.
  and you can change what your homepage settings is by just going to the options menu and in the general section make sure you chose windows and tabs from last time.
• Ian March 24, 2011 at 5:05 am

  Thanxxxxxx!!!

  Another good thing came out of it, after upgrading to FF4 the scrolling with the touch pad on the laptop didn’t work, and I also noticed that I wasn’t the only one commenting about it.
  For some reason, after changing as mentioned above the – “about:config” for the multiple tab thing, miraculously the scrolling suddenly started working again.
• Moose March 24, 2011 at 4:44 am

  Hi Raymond – have you looked at the Bartab extension as an much more user friendly alternative to keeping a list of tabs/sites? Life saver for me – regularly have 4/5 windows and 100+ tabs ‘open’ this way without any slowdown at all – only a few of your recently used tabs will be loaded/active, the rest are like placeholders which are reloaded when you click on them.

  addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bartab/
• dpbert March 24, 2011 at 3:22 am

  Nicely done! This is why I love Firefox.
• Hanan March 24, 2011 at 1:44 am

  how can i do that in Chrome ?
• ruudvan2002 March 24, 2011 at 1:41 am

  There is a nice addon called “session manager” which lets you save all your open tabs by a name.
  I always use more than 70-80 tabs while working on a big project, and save all of them by the project name so that I know what did I refer to when I was doing that project.
  It also has other nice features. You should definitely give it a try.
• rishi March 24, 2011 at 1:23 am

  thnks mate , u r superman !
• INDRANIL March 24, 2011 at 12:57 am

  Thanks for the tip Raymond :D.
• Moni March 24, 2011 at 12:46 am

  @Dan
  Changing it in the Options page would load tabs from the previous session every single time,whether you want them or not.
  Changing the config.on the other hand,merely gives you an option every time where you can specify if you want the previous session tabs to load the next time you open the browser.Much better if you don’t want to keep changing the options every time.
• ebony March 24, 2011 at 12:30 am

  Did not work for me. My FF is set as per Dan’s illustration
• roy raay March 23, 2011 at 10:23 pm

  thanks for the tip!
• Cserb March 23, 2011 at 9:54 pm

  Works perfectly, thanks! I wonder why they removed this option…
• AtOdds March 23, 2011 at 9:16 pm

  Thanks for the warning and instructions. I’ve made the switch to Opera (where this is never an issue) because I don’t care for some of the changes FF made in version 4. Still, I will eventually get around to installing it – always good to have a backup browser – and I will definitely want to make this change.

  May I say, very belatedly, it is great to have you back.
• Dolphy March 23, 2011 at 9:04 pm

  Thanks Ray, really helpful tip.
• skyzyk March 23, 2011 at 8:58 pm

  @kedar
  That only happens with me when I force close Firefox or it crashes, which are actually the same thing.
• skyzyk March 23, 2011 at 8:56 pm

  Thank you very much. I was disappointed when I found out the same thing. Now my FF is Grrrrreat.
• Raymond March 23, 2011 at 8:42 pm

  @Kedar: Firefox 4 doesn’t have that behavior by default.
• Kedar March 23, 2011 at 8:21 pm

  Whats the point? Firefox prompts you to restore previous session, when you close all tabs and start firefox again.
• Raymond March 23, 2011 at 8:19 pm

  @Dan: I did not say that your method is bad or my method is better. The method that you pointed out is indeed easier and convenient.
• Manjunath March 23, 2011 at 7:54 pm

  hi guys thanqs for helping me.
• Steph March 23, 2011 at 7:12 pm

  Thank you! This just saved my life =)
• Vita March 23, 2011 at 7:03 pm

  Try to use this readitlaterlist.com/ to visit interesting sites again =)
• Dan March 23, 2011 at 7:02 pm

  @Raymond If one thing is easy, why you try to do hard?
• sam March 23, 2011 at 6:32 pm

  Thanx for that tip Raymond ;)
• Raymond March 23, 2011 at 6:30 pm

  @Dan, thanks for the tip. Didn’t notice that it can be done so easily :P
  Isn’t it more “geeky” to do it via about:config rather than a few mouse clicks?
• Dyland March 23, 2011 at 6:05 pm

  I think they did so because in FF 4, new homepage is “about:home” which has an option to restore previous session.

  Also to make browsing more simplified….
• Nectar09 March 23, 2011 at 5:38 pm

  I have try this before, but not working..
  I will try this again.. :)
• Dan March 23, 2011 at 5:35 pm

  WTF bro? You are geek or what ? Shame on you !!
  Look here: much simple!! i54.tinypic.com/2mzxf1v.jpg
• Ed March 23, 2011 at 5:24 pm

  Thanks Raymond!.. i wander if it can be applied to Opera?
• Vivek March 23, 2011 at 5:14 pm

  Good one, just exploring FF 4 since last evening….
• razor March 23, 2011 at 4:33 pm

  lol. you don’t have to do anything. it automatically remembers the tab.
  1.close your firefox with few tabs
  2.it will warn you, just click close
  3.open firefox
  4.click restore session
• Firas March 23, 2011 at 4:24 pm

  Thank you for the tip ;-)