Comments on: How to get rid off Firefox Restore Session Dialog Box

By: Benjamin Peter

Benjamin Peter — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:34:51 +0000

Thanks for the tipp.

Ben.

By: georgi

georgi — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:39:14 +0000

I am stuck with a problem someone else had here. a link I hit is trying to add malware to my machine. but I cannot stop it. I (like the other user) managed to prevent it going further with a ctrl del and task manager. but every time i run FF now it tries to load the page and starts the same cycle of panic. I am uninstalling the program and all the folders to do a reinstall and see if i can stop it that way. It sucks that there isnt an option if it crashes or is closed in panic and then decides to try and reinstate all the pages on its restart. I can see how useful it is when things are working safely, but as it stands? not good. After this I will NEED to ensure the remember previous session CAN be disabled

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:17:40 +0000

This is all well and good – but my problem is that I actually *want* to enable the restore session prompt. Right now my firefox restores the session (through tools -> options) but it never prompts me – I want it to show the prompt, because although most of the time I want my session restored, sometimes it is one of the tabs that caused firefox to crash in the first place – so when it loads again it crashes again in an endless hair-pulling fit-inducing cycle.

By: yako

yako — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:17:00 +0000

Quote:”Why anyone would want to turn the feature off, I cannot imagine.”

Well let me clue in you in as to why Rick. I unknowingly went to a site and a virus started to download as well as about forty new windows full of spam, warez and porn opening up at once. I was able to very quickly go to Task Manager and end the whole thing by shutting of the Firefox process, but when the browser re-started guess where it brought me right back to?? Right back to the virus and the junk that nearly infected my computer! Does that help you to understand why many people would want this feature disabled? It’s an idiotic feature that the user has little or no control over.

By: evan

evan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:32:39 +0000

When you do this what happens? Will FF simply not restore the old session and start a new one. Or will it start the new session automatically without prompting you with the dialog box.

I ask because I didn’t change any browser setting but, for some reason, firefox stopped prompting me with the dialog box. It just restores the session automatically.

I would like the dialog box back but I don’t want to disable the start new session feature altogether. I just want to be prompted with a choice.

By: Reka

Reka — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:02:28 +0000

Thank you soooo much for telling me how to disable this!

For people who want to know WHY? For me it’s because I have Dial-up, and whenever this stupid box comes up due to my computer freezing and quitting firefox, i know that EVERYTHING will be SLOOWW!
All the cookies get deleted (im assuming)…. and therefore makes it slow. =(

But whenever I “Close all tabs” everything’s fine.

Anyway, thank you again!

By: silondile

silondile — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:04:43 +0000

Greetings.
Im hoping you can help me, i work on an iMac using firefox and this was somebody else’s computer before it was mine, so im not sure what settings were changed etc.
My problem is that I cant seem to get my firefox to “restore last session”. I’ve checked in the preferences, where I assumed there would be an option to allow/disallow – which I saw on a pc using firefox. I’ve now tried to use your system to disable the restore dialog box, hoping to reverse the situation. But alas, when i typed about:config there was no browser.sessionstore.enable
there was only browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers.
Please please help. Forever i have been trying to enable the restore session dialog box, which doesnt even appear if my firefox is unexpectedly turned off or crashes etc. help

By: Rick @ windows forum

Rick @ windows forum — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:05:11 +0000

The Restore Last Session feature is just one many that keeps me using Firefox as my default browser. Why anyone would want to turn the feature off, I cannot imagine. I read your article on using restore every time you open Firefox. That’s a useful tip for people using older versions of Firefox, but i guess it’s no longer necessary with FF 3, as version 3 gives you the option to save your tabs before closing Firefox. What will they think of next?

By: Hussein

Hussein — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:47:41 +0000

Great trick. I always get irritated when this dialog box appear.

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