Firefox is considered the first alternative after Chrome, although Microsoft is trying to introduce Edge. Firefox is constantly evolving and every version released offers or improves some functionality of the application.
So with the latest release of Firefox in 61.0.2, the Mozilla Foundation reportedly added a new feature that you may not have noticed, but it can prove to be particularly useful.
The new feature is called automatic restoring of browsing sessions and as its name suggests, it provides the ability to automatically restore browsing sessions even when Windows restarts to complete the installation of an update or when you shut down Windows yourself without closing the browser first.
While this feature is only supported by Firefox 61.0.2 in Windows, it will gradually be released for the other platforms supported by its application Mozilla Foundation.
At this time, this feature is not enabled by default but will be enabled in the coming weeks.
Below we will see that with a simple tweak you can turn on automatic browser navigation restoration in Windows Firefox:
At line Firefox addresses type about:config.
A warning message will appear stating that you will lose your warranty: changing these advanced settings may be detrimental to the stability, security, and performance of this application. You should only continue if you are sure of what you are doing….
Click Accept and then in the search box at the top of the screen type the following line:
toolkit.winRegisterApplicationRestart
Alternatively, all the steps described above can be found at the following address:
about: config? filter = toolkit.winRegisterApplicationRestart
which you can copy and paste into the Mozilla Firefox address bar, though you will need to see the warning again if you have never opened this configuration screen.
By default, this setting is set to false. What you need to do to enable the setting is to double-click to change the value from false to true.
After the changes, Firefox will automatically restore the tabs you have open the next time you restart the computer without closing the browser.
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