How do I re-activate Firefox to ask me if I want to retain my tabs for a future work session?

A friend used my computer, and apparently de-activated my default setting of saving my current tabs when closing FireFox. How do I reactivate this option??

See Tools > Options > General|Main > Startup: "When Firefox Starts": "Show my windows and tabs from last time"
You can reset the warn prefs on the about:config page via the right-click context menu.
browser.tabs.warnOnClose , see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About%3Aconfig_entries
browser.warnOnQuit , see http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.warnOnQuit
browser.warnOnRestart , see http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.warnOnRestart

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