Firefox isn't saving my tabs

I need to start off with the warning that I have no clue what I'm doing and the work I've done so far was based on other people's advice or information I found on MozillaZine. This problem started after I downloaded the latest version of Firefox.
So... Firefox isn't saving my tabs and I think I know why, but I'm not 100% sure. (I have it saved that I want to restore my previous session whenever I open Firefox.) I went to about:config and went to look for browser.sessionstore.enabled to see if that was messed up, but the file wasn't even there. Obviously, I'm assuming that's the problem. If anyone could tell me if it sounds like I'm on the right track that would be great.

The pref [http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.enabled browser.sessionstore.enabled] is no longer used in Firefox 3.5 and later (bug 449596).
Remove that pref if you still have it via the right-click context menu and choose Reset.
Check that Session Restore is enabled.
You can look at the 'browser.sessionstore' prefs on the '''about:config''' page and reset prefs that show as bold (user set).
http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo
http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo
http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash
If you use [[Clear Recent History]] in Firefox 3.5/6 or [[Clearing private data|Clear Private Data]] in Firefox 3 to clear the 'Browsing History' when Firefox is closed then restoring tabs from the last session (e.g. "Save & Quit" or "Show my windows and tabs from last time") doesn't work.

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