Firefox is a priceless debugging tool for web developers. However, when it stops functioning properly, daily tasks & work become more complicated.
One day Firefox stopped asking if I wanted to restore my tabs when the program closed. After being annoyed for quite sometime I thought about restoring FireFox to its defaults settings.
Windows XP/2000/Vista:
firefox -safe-mode
“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -safe-mode
OR
Start > All Programs > Mozilla Firefox (folder) > Mozilla Firefox Safe Mode
Linux:
/path/to/firefox/firefox -safe-mode
Mac OS X:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -safe-mode
Now, while it is true that somewhere along the way I may have inadvertently unchecked “No, don’t ask me again” the problem was nonetheless frustrating. So, if Firefox does not remember what tabs you had open before on closing it just follow those steps above.
That is unless you don’t want it to remember what tabs were open, browsing history, passwords, cookies, etc because you were looking at skeevy porn or browsing the Jars of Clay ‘Eternal Fanclub of best Friends Forever’, then you probably shouldn’t be using Firefox. Use Internet Explorer and get the viruses God intended your computer be infected with.