Firefox 4,5,6 refreshes all tabs although no internet connection exists

Since I've updated Firefox 4 and later to Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 (Aurora) I've been missing one particular feature which was working very nicely inFirefox 3.x.
In Firefox 3.x I could start it without a internet connection and almost all of my open tabs were still loaded (with websites having the information in state I left it when I was closing Firefox. With this I was able to read my open sites in the train where I have no internet connection, or I was able to get back to something I had open and now it's gone. This does not work in Firefox 4 or newer beta's or even aurora version. If I launch Firefox 4,5,6 I see all my open tabs but the content is not available. It seems that the new version tries to refresh all tabs on startup. Is there a possibility to disable this behaviour and enable the old one?

The portable Firefox version has the disk cache disabled to prevent wearing out USB and SSD storage devices that only allow a limited number of writes.

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