In Firefox 1.5 SessionSaver was a great plugin that allowed us to restore all of our tabs and keep items we were looking at up without the need for bookmarking every little thing. With the introduction of Firefox 2, SessionSaver is no longer available, but this new version has an inactive feature called SessionRestore that functions roughly the same way, this guid will show you how to activate it.

Open Firefox and in a new tab type about:config then press enter. Once the setting page is open look for lines beginning with browser.sessionstore. we will be looking for the following items:

browser.sessionstore.enabled
browser.sessionstore.interval
browser.sessionstore.resume_session
browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once

If they are not there, then right click and choose new followed by the type for each, use the guide below to change/add your entries.

browser.sessionstore.enabled | Type: boolean | Value: true
browser.sessionstore.interval | Type: integer | Value: 30000 (equals 30 seconds, adjust to taste)
browser.sessionstore.resume_session | Type: boolean | Value: true
browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once | Type: boolean | Value: true

Close and reopen Firefox to enjoy the befefits of session restore.


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