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Firefox has had this feature for over a decade, and it has never worked reliably. It's slightly better now, but still one time in five or ten, it starts up in a

Firefox has had this feature for over a decade, and it has never worked reliably. It's slightly better now, but still one time in five or ten, it starts up in a blank session or with an error page prompting you to press a button to restore state. I lived through the days where force closing Firefox was the only way to preserve sessions. Things honestly aren't that much better. I'd take a zero percent chance of success over 80. At least then failure is known and predictable instead of just reliable enough to get you to trust it.

oarfish 3y ago
Curious. I've used Firefox for many years and never experienced this problem, not on macOS at least.
davidgerard 3y ago
I have literally never had it fail, in years.
moritzwarhier 3y ago
Works for me, but i ended up disabling it because of an extremely annoying issue, not sure where it comes from: Opening a second window with CMD+N (mac user just like the sibling) often brings up some random page from my history. This has been so annoying that I disabled the restore feature. Since then I think it hasn't happened again.
- vulcan01 3y ago
  Do you use an extension to manage your tabs? I haven't experienced this on stock Firefox, but a few years ago I had Tree Style Tab installed and it would occasionally do this. (I now use Sidebery.)
  - moritzwarhier 3y ago
    No, but thinking a bit about it, it might be I am misremembering and it was on Xubuntu before I switched to mac. Or just fixed. Currently, the problem might be gone, I will try that out. Thanks for your answer! Edit: I also don't have these stability issues, but I did have issues with my suspend mode on that laptop, no matter the os (win/ubuntu)
MikusR 3y ago
The only time it was happening for me (on Windows) was before the release of Firefox 4.
n8henrie 3y ago
Very weird to hear this. I've used Firefox as my primary browser for the last 8 or so years and it has never once failed to restore my tabs on Linux, MacOS, or Windows. I'm usually cruising with about a dozen tabs on Windows and Linux, and shamefully had up to 2,400 on MacOS last year. Works great every time. Reboots, Firefox updates, OS updates, you name it.

oarfish 3y ago

Curious. I've used Firefox for many years and never experienced this problem, not on macOS at least.

davidgerard 3y ago

I have literally never had it fail, in years.

moritzwarhier 3y ago

Works for me, but i ended up disabling it because of an extremely annoying issue, not sure where it comes from: Opening a second window with CMD+N (mac user just like the sibling) often brings up some random page from my history. This has been so annoying that I disabled the restore feature. Since then I think it hasn't happened again.

vulcan01 3y ago
Do you use an extension to manage your tabs? I haven't experienced this on stock Firefox, but a few years ago I had Tree Style Tab installed and it would occasionally do this. (I now use Sidebery.)
- moritzwarhier 3y ago
  No, but thinking a bit about it, it might be I am misremembering and it was on Xubuntu before I switched to mac. Or just fixed. Currently, the problem might be gone, I will try that out. Thanks for your answer! Edit: I also don't have these stability issues, but I did have issues with my suspend mode on that laptop, no matter the os (win/ubuntu)

MikusR 3y ago

The only time it was happening for me (on Windows) was before the release of Firefox 4.

n8henrie 3y ago

Very weird to hear this. I've used Firefox as my primary browser for the last 8 or so years and it has never once failed to restore my tabs on Linux, MacOS, or Windows. I'm usually cruising with about a dozen tabs on Windows and Linux, and shamefully had up to 2,400 on MacOS last year. Works great every time. Reboots, Firefox updates, OS updates, you name it.