locked Firefox does not prompt to save tabs when I close

Firefox version: 3.0 Operating system: Intel Mac OS X 10.5
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Timothy
Firefox user

Firefox 3 is supposed to ask if you want to save the tabs for the next session. I think I might have said to not ask me again, but I want the dialog to appear again. How do I do that?

Extensions installed:

DownThemAll and Download Statusbar

Plugins installed:


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Tue 20 of May, 2008 16:53 PST  
Timothy
Firefox user

I would like to be able to save the tabs when I close, but it no does not ask me.



Tue 20 of May, 2008 16:54 PST  
Bo
Bo
13942 posts
  1. Enter about:config in the Location bar
  2. Type browser.sessionstore.enabled in the "Filter"
  3. Make sure the browser.sessionstore.enabled preference is true.

Repeat for:

  • browser.warnOnQuit - true
  • browser.warnOnRestart - true
  • browser.startup.page - 1 or 2

Edited: cor-el is right, see below

Good lucK!



Wed 21 of May, 2008 06:45 PST  
ehmjay
1 posts

Having the same issue, when I quit it's not asking if I want to save tabs or just quit. I checked and all of those things seem to be enabled but its still not asking.

why oh why did I tick that box?!



Tue 27 of May, 2008 17:51 PST  
cor-el
59792 posts

Firefox 3 will only ask that if browser.startup.page is not 3, because otherwise your pages will already be reopened ("Show my windows and tabs from last time").



Wed 28 of May, 2008 07:04 PST  
Ringo
Firefox user

Same for me, checked the settings and they all seem ok. It was working originally but it has now stopped.



Mon 02 of Jun, 2008 14:09 PST  
Ringo
Firefox user

Oops, I just read this http://teck.in/firefox-save-tabs-on-exit.html and changed the "When firefox starts" startup option and, although it still does not prompt me, it does automatically save and restore my tabs.

However warnOnQuit and warnOnRestart are both true but I still don't get a prompt on exit.



Mon 02 of Jun, 2008 14:13 PST  
cor-el
59792 posts

A way do that is to have another window open and that can be the bookmarks manager or the download manager. Then Firefox will ask you.



Mon 02 of Jun, 2008 14:48 PST  
Moby
Firefox user

Ok, I had a similar issue. I went through all the suggestions mentioned above to no avail. Finally, I found that I had a user.js in the profile directory and user.js had just one line in it. That line was user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);.
Not sure why, but getting rid of the whole user.js file made the tab save feature work beautifully.



Wed 18 of Jun, 2008 11:43 PST  
David
Firefox user

I got the same problem... I don't know how come the prompt on exit (save and quit; quit; cancel) has been disabled and I couldn't get it back. I wanted to restart the computer so I thought by clicking Close button, FF will automatically ask if I want to save the sessions, but it didn't so I had to open abt 10 tabs manually:(. I've tried all the above solutions but none works. I believe there will be more ppl ask this questions. Can anyone provide a workable answer?



Thu 19 of Jun, 2008 20:20 PST  
ginigma
Firefox user

Does anyone know how to set the default action for the Quit Firefox dialog box to "Quit" instead of "Save and Quit"? Most of the time I don't want to save the sessions for the next time, so I just want to be able to hit Enter, instead of using another mouse or keystroke.



Tue 24 of Jun, 2008 17:45 PST  
George
Firefox user

I cannot get the "Save and Quit" dialog box to show up again. I've tried all suggestions, nothing works. My only choices are a warning box that I'm closing multiple tabs or the option to save all tabs every time I close (without a warning box). Sometimes I want to save my tabs, sometimes I don't. I need the option to choose those times. What happened, everything was working great up until a couple days ago...



Tue 01 of Jul, 2008 09:13 PST  
C-Slim
Firefox user

This is frustrating beyond words. Firefox 3 is still a beta with bugs and they don't seem to be listening to us. Tried everything and still can't get it to save all the tabs or give me the option to do so. At some point it just stopped doing it. I've lost so much time with this it's not worth it. Going back to Opera where this has always worked fine for many years.



Thu 03 of Jul, 2008 12:16 PST  
tuna
Firefox user

Just upgraded to version 3 and everything's gone wrong already - i've lost all my previous history and then after trailing though ie7's history to find some remenants of past pages and copying the urls into FF, I find that it now also won't save any tabs no matter what I try. I've had to relead 24 tabs five times now and frankly fed up to high heaven. I've tried what Moby did but I don't even have a js file anywhere in my porfiles folder! Is that the problem? If FF don't make an update soon, I'm sticking to IE for good.



Thu 03 of Jul, 2008 14:43 PST  
tuna
Firefox user

OK, I reinstalled FF with no better luck but looked again in the profiles folder (C:\Users\%name%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rhgo8bmp.default in vista) and found and deleted a file called prefs.js. On start, FF rewrote this settings file and the save tabs then worked like a charm. Hope this helps.



Thu 03 of Jul, 2008 15:00 PST  
tuna
Firefox user

Also, with the "Library" window (history>show all history ctrl+shift+h). If you have that open when you close the main FF window, it won't save your tabs. Cheers.



Thu 03 of Jul, 2008 15:26 PST  
Cheshire
Firefox user

I somehow magically got it to work. Make sure that in the Tabs tab in the Firefox preferences/options that you have it warn you when you're closing with multiple tabs. You need to have that in order for it to work. Try the above suggestions and hopefully it'll work. If not, try just deleting your preferences, hopefully you won't have hacked your FF too much already.



Wed 09 of Jul, 2008 10:09 PST  
Emery
Firefox user

By closing the download window, it works (asked me if I want to Save and Exit). Make sure that all other Firefox windows are closed. Including the downloads window.



Tue 22 of Jul, 2008 05:33 PST  
notrandom
Firefox user

how do i "save and quite" when it's time to close the window? don't need to be asked. i do i do "it". is there a hot key sequence? fire fox please help.



Thu 24 of Jul, 2008 14:46 PST  
dode
Firefox user

Just Make Sure that you are not Opening any other Window of Fire Fox.

i mean if you have one window of Firefox opened with 1,2,3,4,5, ...etc. Tabs

and you have also another window of Firefox opened with/without tabs in it

you have to close one of the window and then the save and quit box will return again :)



Thu 24 of Jul, 2008 18:03 PST  
clance_911
Firefox user

yeah the inability to save tabs in two windows... it sucks!
any workarounds?

cheers!



Thu 24 of Jul, 2008 23:36 PST  
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