645020 - all tabs been closed by closing firefox.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 502908

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

If i am using firefox and have a lot of tabs open and i want to close it. i only get the message "n tabs will be closed are you sure" but not the old one anymore like in ff3 where you get ask to save your tabs or close them all

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.user more tabs
2.close firefox
3.start firefox
Actual Results:  
fiefox shows the startpage

Expected Results:  
i want fiefeox to reopen all of my last tabs

Comment 1

[[not reading bugmail]]

a few options exist:

1) Just change the options->General->Startup and select Show my windows and tabs from last time, it will always restore your session.    
2) If you select show my home page in Options->General->Startup, choose default homepage, you will get a Restore Previous Session button on the about:home default homepage URL
3) If you choose another home page, I think you will also see the option in the History Menu to choose Restore Previous Session as well

Comment 2

[Peter]

hi,
to 1. yes i figured that one out, but sometimes i dont want to restore the session. and in ff 3 i just could close firefox and at the question i denie saving the tabs and i have a fresh browser window with just the standard homepage.

i didnt found the option in the history menu...would love to have it again like in ff3. maybe we should do a survey and ask other ff users...

Comment 4

[Roberto Sartori]

Hi Henrik....
I'm sorry, but this is not the same problem I reported in bug 644693.

Comment 5

[[not reading bugmail]]

Turn on ask on close warning in options->Tabs and go to about:config in the URL
bar and modify preferences:
That should change browser.warnOnQuit = True
You can also change:
browser.showQuitWarning = True to ask if you want to save tabs

Comment 6

[[not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Turn on ask on close warning in options->Tabs and go to about:config in the URL
> bar and modify preferences:
> That should change browser.warnOnQuit = True
> You can also change:
> browser.showQuitWarning = True to ask if you want to save tabs


That should be the options tabs panel changes:
browser.tabs.warnOnClose;true