Believe much easier is the extension Exit Button Firfox 0.3. With this I have put a large red button just below the “X” at the upper right on the toolbar. Merely click on that button in lieu of using file/exit or the “X” and all is restored with the next startup.

I’ll have to check that out, but I try to keep the number of extensions I install to a minimum. If it’s as simple as you say it is then that shouldn’t add too much bloat.[/comment]

Experimented with 3 windows open, one with 8 tabs and all closed immediately and all re-opened. And it’s only 8kb. Although I didn’t check FF opening time before and after, don’t believe it’s changed.

(FYI also added it to Thunderbird and if a few msgs are full screen in new windows, they all close but do not re-open. Since they all close when simply hitting the X in the upper right and we have Ctrl/Q as a keyboard shortcut key to File/Exit I don’t understand the function.)

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Or, you could just use Opera. You can hit the Big Red X, or even end the process, and Opera will still pop up with the tabs that were open before. It has saved me many times in the past due to power outages and such.

Opera works pretty much the same way as Firefox. Although Opera 9.5 includes a new feature to “undo closed windows” which is awesome.

I’ve had that happen once or twice. There is a lock file in the profile that must not have gotten deleted when Firefox closed, which made it think it was still running.

I would also like to see Alt+F4 behave like File -> Exit.

Closing Firefox using the red ‘x’ just closes the active wndow, the application continues to run in the background.On the other hand, using the File -> Exit command tells FF that a complete shutdown has been requested, either by the user or the application has crashed (crash recovery) and thus instinctively remember and reload all open windows etc.

Ryan, I do not mean any disrespect, but seriously you authoring such posts is shocking.I’ve read other earth shattering posts about Firefox and other apps so finding it hard to digest that you really didn’t know about the “restore session” feature built into Firefox. This a very basic feature and it isn’t even buried under about:config so how could you have missed it. Makes me wonder about your tech quotient.

I knew about the session restore capabilities of Firefox, and I have written about them before. I did not, however, know that you could use File -> Exit as a way to save all of your open windows. If you read through the article you may understand better as to what I’m talking about.

I’m sure quite a few people don’t realize this feature exists. I think Manu was implying that I didn’t know Firefox had session restore capabilities, but I did know that. I’m guessing Manu didn’t read through the entire article to get the point of it.

I’ll have to check that out, but I try to keep the number of extensions I install to a minimum. If it’s as simple as you say it is then that shouldn’t add too much bloat.