# IE restore previous session

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-restore-previous-session/506299>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 13, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-restore-previous-session/506299 "2009-08-13T15:52:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-restore-previous-session/506299/1 "2009-08-13T15:52:05Z")

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Last night the power went out in my house. This morning, Firefox restored its session, but IE didn’t.

I went to TOOLS in the menu to manually restore, but that won’t work…“restore last session” is just grey text and not “click-on-able”.

How do I get back this feature I used to have?

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-restore-previous-session/506299/2 "2009-08-13T16:18:43Z")

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What version of IE do you have?

In early versions of IE8 this feature doesn’t work and has been disabled. I believe that the latest version of IE8 has this functionality. You may just need to download the latest IE to get it working again.