How to Save and Restore Mozilla Firefox Session / Tab States
January 5, 2008 – 11:46 pmI don’t know about you, but I really wish that Firefox 3 will include a feature that will let users save sessions, so the next time I open my browser, I can have all my favorite links open up in an instance without having to click all my bookmarks or type all the URLs over again.
Meanwhile, I can only rely on a fantastic extension called Session Manager – which saves and restore the state of Mozilla Firefox tabs and windows.
What Session Manager extension offers (main features):
- Save your Mozilla Firefox current windows / tab states.
- Restore Mozilla Firefox saved windows state.
- Multiple session save – (optional) you can have different sessions selectable to you once Firefox start up.
- Create, rename and delete sessions as many times as you wish.
- Open closed tabs – very useful to restore accidentally closed tabs.
- Automatic save and restore crashed session (optional – Enable Crash Recovery).
If you are thinking about session security, Session Manager also allows you to encrypt your saved sessions. To summarize this post, Session Manager fits my need (currently) but I really hope that this feature will be integrated in future Mozilla Firefox downloads. That, in my opinion, will please a lot of Mozilla Firefox fans!
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7 Responses to “How to Save and Restore Mozilla Firefox Session / Tab States”
Brilliant. Exactly what I was looking for. Google usually returns the regular Save Session extension (one-off saving) instead.
By oster on Jan 6, 2008
Since Firefox 2 you can save your last session and ask Firefox to always restore sessions on start. It does not however allow you to save multiple sessions.
By wannatech on Jul 16, 2008
This is brilliant thanks! you can now search open in tabs then save with a name and start again with a different search and restore them individually when needed… FANTASTIC
By Fabio on Sep 6, 2008
What we need is an option to NOT save session on exit.
The reason for this is that I often have a session of tabs that I want to save but there are so many I often start another Firefox instance alongside for temporary stuff. If I accidentally close the instance with the tabs I want to save first how can I close the other instance without overwriting the session state?
By Chris W on Nov 4, 2008
@Chris W: You’d better forward this request to the developers man. I am sure they would like to hear your creative thoughts.
By Syahid A. on Nov 5, 2008
How to Save and Restore Mozilla Firefox Session / Tab States
Hey man.. thanks.. i’ve been looking for this.. great.. i kinda agree with the guy above.. mozilla must ask whether we like to NOT save the last page.. we usually or always, nowadays with lack of time, or more accurately LACK OF TIME MANAGEMENT, we tend to not have enough TIME..
well for the former I have a solutions already..
email me then i will tell you then u can share to the world. i’m really outdated, this post was long ago and i hope u already figured out how to do it.. 
Peace. email me Now.!!! take care.
By Muhammad Afandi on May 1, 2009
It’s worth mentioning that this feature comes standard in the Opera browser, which I highly recommend.
Thanks for the tip!
By daretoeatapeach on Dec 11, 2009