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Oct 17

Update For Tweaking The Session Restore In Firefox 2

This article was written on August 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

When Firefox 2 Beta 1 was released a few weeks ago I put together a tweaking guide so that people would know how to customize some of the great new features. In that article I show you the few steps you need to take in order to make the built-in Session Restore automatically restore all of your tabs every time you restart Firefox.

For about the past week I have noticed that Firefox stopped restoring my sessions. I thought maybe they were going to prevent people from doing this which would have made me a little upset. Then I soon realized that they just changed the name of the setting in the about:config page. So if you have tweaked your Session Restore for Firefox 2 Beta 1 then you will need to also add this entry in order for it to work when Firefox 2 Beta 2 gets released on August 23.

Start Firefox.
In the Address Bar type “about:config” and press Enter.
Right-Click and select New->Integer.
A box requesting the Preference Name will popup and you should enter “browser.startup.page” (without the quotes). Press OK to continue.
Here are the multiple options you can choose from:
- Enter 0 to start with a blank page (about:blank).
- Enter 1 to start with the web page(s) defined as the home page(s). (Default)
- Enter 2 to load the last visited page.
- Enter 3 to Resume the previous browser session (implemented after Firefox 2 beta 1).