On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 02:32:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 21/10/16 04:28 AM, William Satterthwaite wrote: > Thanks. The settings button | History has a "Restore Closed Tabs" option > that isn't in the History pulldown. When you first start Firefox, the option > reads "Restore Closed Windows". Neither actually does the same thing as the > "restore previous session" button used to do. I have no idea what criteria > Firefox uses to decide which windows/tabs to restore, but they aren't the > ones that were open when I closed Firefox. > > There also doesn't seem to be way of customizing the menu bar to include the > option, or even the option in settings button | History section. The History > | Restore Closed Tabs is gone. > > I'm using Firefox 45.4.0. > > I preferred it when Firefox automatically restored your last session. I > didn't mind it when it started asking you nor even when it made you press a > button on the startup page. I gather from the increasing difficulty in > restoring the previous session, someone has decided that people simply > shouldn't do it. :)
I am using FF 49.0.1, currently logged into Arch Linux. I have an option History -> Restore Previous Session. I can also go History -> Recently Closed Tabs -> Restore All Tabs. Isn't this what you are looking for, or did I miss something?
