I noticed that Restore Previous Session is right at the bottom of the page!Īnother Solution-Show Windows and Tabs From Last Time It took perhaps 5 minutes and I got a couple of notifications that it was being worked on then the notification went away and I clicked on the Firefox icon and it started up with the Firefox Home Page. So I got a screenshot of all my add-ons so I could put them back (I don’t use a whole lot) and clicked the Refresh button. It puts things back to its original state. I’d compare it to doing a computer reinstall of your operating system. So if you’ve selected a theme or added on extensions, they will be gone. Refreshing means it’s bringing your browser back to their default settings. Then I stumbled upon the Mozilla Firefox home screen where they suggested a Refresh Firefox solution. I mentioned Binging and Googling a way to get the Restore Previous Session back, but none of them looked correct. You can also check to see if your special someone has been looking at gifts for you – could be a spoiler! If you are monitoring children, this is a good place to check out. That can be helpful for finding what you want. On this pop-up, you can also check out all the downloads you had and any bookmarks. Click on that to view today’s yesterday’s or the last 7 days of your browsing history. I did some research and found a lot of this and that on the interwebs – none of which seemed like it would work.Īnother setting to check, also under History, is the Show All History selection. See the image below where my computer’s Restore Previous Session is available and working for me. This is the fastest and easiest way to get back what you were looking at before someone thoughtlessly shuts down your session (as I did). It was grayed out on both of our computers. First Go to History and see if the ‘Restore Previous Session’ is grayed out or not. To see if you can get all of your last session’s browser tabs back, there are a few things to check. And yes, I’ve done this when my husband had quite a few tabs up he wasn’t through with!ĭoug’s Computer Check Your Firefox History Settings I’m tech support for our house, so there have been times when I’ve run CCleaner and removed all browsing history (among other things), to clean up and make the computer run faster. This article is about how to check your Firefox settings and make sure you can restore your previous Firefox session.

We use Firefox as the main browser around our house.

Firefox restore session on startup