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In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I generally have a "home" Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to "lose" it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also persists through a reboot, so if you shutdown or reboot with tabs open, it will ask you to restore the previous session when you next start it after the boot.

If you didn't restore it, but didn't open any more tabs, you can close it again, reboot, etc, and this option will still work to get your tabs back when you're ready.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about if it’s private browsing mode?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They aren't recoverable after the session ends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dang.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you want them to be recoverable, then you've got a bit of a misunderstanding about what private browsing mode is for. Not saving history is basically its whole "thing."