# Firefox session restore

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-session-restore/451058>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 29, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-session-restore/451058 "2008-05-29T19:24:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-session-restore/451058/1 "2008-05-29T19:24:10Z")

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Is it’s possible to disable firefox from saving the session when closing and asking whether to restore last session when starting up?

It’s playing silly beggars for me and my Father-in-law.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-session-restore/451058/2 "2008-05-29T19:30:47Z")

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Are you using the crappy built-in session manager, or the better one in the [Tab Mix Plus](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122) addon?

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-session-restore/451058/3 "2008-05-29T19:46:09Z")

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Did you try un-checking the box under Tools - Options - Tabs - “Warn me when closing multiple tabs”?

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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-session-restore/451058/4 "2008-05-29T19:50:55Z")

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> [@](#):
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> To disable the crash recovery feature, set browser.sessionstore.resume\_from\_crash to false:
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> ```
> * Type about:config in the Location Bar
> * Press Enter
> * Find browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash
> * Double click to set it to false 
> 
> ```
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> To completely disable all session saving behavior, including the recording of session information, set browser.sessionstore.enabled to false:
> 
> ```
> * Type about:config in the Location Bar
> * Press Enter
> * Find browser.sessionstore.enabled
> * Double click to set it to false 
> 
> ```

[Making sure you're not a bot!](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore#Disable)

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**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-session-restore/451058/5 "2008-05-29T20:12:00Z")

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Thank you Gfactor.  
My Father-in-law is gonna think I’m so smart!