Firefox suddenly began asking if I wanted to close all tabs when I closed it, and although my setting is set to "Show my Windows and Tabs from last time" I open up to Google instead of my old tabs. Any solutions?

I can still recover my old tabs by going History> Recently Closed Windows but I'm worried about when I restart my computer.
Edit: While trying a reinstall I found out there was another firefox "running" even though it didn't show up in my taskbar. I went into task manager and ended the process. When I next opened firefox three windows opened up to the start page but froze (nothing but a white screen). After closing those from the task manager and trying again I got the "Well this is embarrassing" message and could no longer restore my old tabs. (I'd bookmarked them expecting this to happen eventually) For now everything seems to be back to normal, but this is still a pretty worrisome problem.

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in permanent Private Browsing mode.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Private+Browsing
*You enter Private Browsing mode if you select: Tools > Options > Privacy > History: Firefox will: "Never Remember History"
*To see all History and Cookie settings, choose: Tools > Options > Privacy, choose the setting Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
* Deselect: [ ] "Permanent Private Browsing mode"
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Session+Restore

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845681
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version#os=mac&browser=fx21 Update Firefox to the latest version]
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