Tabs and window restore only restored one of many open windows from last session. I hate this!!

Tab and window restoration has FAILED after version 13.01 installation! Out of 7 windows open with multiple tabs, only ONE BROWSER WINDOW OPENED with NO reference to what happened to the normal session that had been in the previous version of FF. I've read about this and I DON'T LIKE IT. It is reverse engineering. WHY would you scrap someone's research for the sake of making your browser open more quickly? DAMMIT MAN I don't have time to study a browser. I may not endure this version! I don't see a way out of this ff trap, other than go to previous version which is always a bitch. Dammit!

You need to use "Firefox/File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit") to close Firefox if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the title bar to close Firefox with all open windows at once. Otherwise only the last closed window will be restored. If this did happen then check History > Recently Closed Windows to see if any are listed (default is 3).

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Make sure that you do not use Clear Recent History to clear the Browsing History when you close Firefox.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Clear+Recent+History

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It would seem if your choose "Show my windows and tabs from last time" '''''and''''',
*when you last closed Firefox, you had no web site open (just a blank tab), that it would open just that blank tab
*when you last closed Firefox, you had one or more tabs/web site open, that would allow you to "Restore Previous Session"
#Have you tried that?
#If so, what is happening in each circumstance when you reopen Firefox?
'''Restore Previous Session''' 
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#*See [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options%20window%20-%20Privacy%20panel Options window-Privacy panel]
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#*See [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options%20window%20-%20Privacy%20panel Options window-Privacy panel]
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Hi there,
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I will now quit Safari, restore a saved .plist file into its directory, and try to reproduce it.
* .plist files are by default stored in a binary format. If you want to read what's inside a .plist file as part of your own troubleshooting, save a copy of the file and run the plutil command from within Terminal:
plutil -convert xml1 -e pxml FILENAME
(replace FILENAME with the full name and path of the file you saved)
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Safari Reopen All Windows from last session greyed out

Hi there,
I am using Safari 7.0.6 version. I have a Macbook Pro OS X 10.9.4 I have made sure that under my Safari Preferences/General/ the Close all windows .... is UNCHECKED but I still can't get the "Reopen All Windows From Last Session" to be activated. I can't even do it manually as it is greyed out.
Any suggestions?

Unfortunately no, but there is a free Safari extension that offers this feature.
Glims for Safari | www.MacHangout.com
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Other handy features as well.
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Last night I fell asleep and my friend shut down my laptop.
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I don't know the exact date when I found them, so I haven't been able to find them in History either.
I've looked around on the internet, but haven't been able to find anything that helped me out.
Hope you can help me! Thanks.

Restart your Mac.
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Glims for Safari | www.MacHangout.com
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I guess the title sums it up. Sometimes when I startup my iMac in the morning, after having shutdown the evening before, and open Safari and choose "reopen all windows from last session" I may only get one window instead of the three or four I might have had open.
I do use tabs so I know I could open them all in one window but sometimes I end up with other windows open anyway, each with multiple tabs. I know I could just let my iMac sleep and leave Safari open but sometimes I end up shutting down.
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Regards,
Steve M.
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HI Steve,
If you have multiple Windows open, Safari should reopen those when you relaunch Safari.
Open a Finder window select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. Then open the Library folder, then the Caches folder, then the com.apple.Safari folder. Move the cache.db file from the com.apple.Safari folder to the Trash. Relaunch Safari.
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Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop. Now launch Safari. If Safari "reopens all windows from last session", move that .plist file to the Trash.
If that didn't help, Quit Safari. In a Finder window select your Home folder in the Sidebar again. Open the Library folder then the Safari folder. Move the LastSession.plist file to the Trash.
Thank you for the star.
Carolyn

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Thanks in advance.
-- Kevin
(proud Mac user for 23 years)

I found a work-around. Since I frequently quit Safari and "reopen all windows from last session" upon restart, my history reflects all of the open tabs and windows contiguously. I thus reloaded the history file, invoked the command "History --> Show All History," found the most recent such contiguous history listing, shift-clicked and selected all relevant listings, and then double-clicked. All of my formerly open tabs and windows were reopened in tabs within a single window. I had to go back and rearrange things but it was far simpler than manually reopening all of those tabs and windows.
-- Kevin

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HI,
FYI, it's better to trouble shoot Safari rather than re-install the app.
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache. When you are done with that...
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1594
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Relaunch Safari.
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Carolyn
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~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
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is there a fix?
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