# IE add-on that restores all windows that were open when IE crashes?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-add-on-that-restores-all-windows-that-were-open-when-ie-crashes/160797 "2003-03-12T11:02:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-add-on-that-restores-all-windows-that-were-open-when-ie-crashes/160797/1 "2003-03-12T11:02:05Z")

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I’ve been looking for something that does this.

Let’s say I have 20 open windows in Internet Explorer. And it crashes. I have to then browse through history, websites, saved urls, etc. just to get those 20 windows back.

Other times, I’d like to reboot when I have 20 windows open, but I avoid it because restoring those 20 windows is a pain.

Is there any add-on or program that automatically restores those open windows with a single click ? I understand that some other browser has such a feature in-built, but I am not aware of anything similar for Internet Explorer.

Specifications : Windows XP, IE 6.

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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-add-on-that-restores-all-windows-that-were-open-when-ie-crashes/160797/2 "2003-03-13T15:11:27Z")

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FWIW the other browser that does this that I know of is Opera.

::bump:: 🙂