Tabs not saved when Firefox closes!

Why oh why has Firefox 6.0.2 (on Mac) stopped automatically saving and re-opening TABS when restarted?
I've read a million Help articles and verified all the recommended settings are applied but I'm sorry, this new Tabs functionality is counter-intuitive and just plain misleading. Firefox saves Tabs, but only if it's closed in *this* particular way? Please. I'm having enough trouble adjusting to the use of a Mac, without Firefox compounding the problem by removing / obstructing the use of a feature that was previously easy to use, and made perfect sense! If we click "Show my windows and tabs from last time", it means we want Firefox to SHOW MY WINDOWS AND TABS FROM LAST TIME! Even if we click the "X" button to close Firefox.
Anyway the bottom line is that I've lost all my working TABS (again), but this time clicking on the History menu, the "Restore Previous Session" command is DISABLED. What options do I have? I haven't restarted Firefox once since having my Tabs disappear, so they should still be saved somewhere. (in the BAK file?)
And I don't want to have to sift through months of history to try and find all the Tabs I had open!
This new logic that makes it more complicated to save Tabs across sessions is NOT an improvement!
Thanks in advance.

Tabs are only saved if you close (Firefox > Quit) the Firefox application while those tabs are still showing. If you close a window and still have the menu bar visible then you wont reopen already close tabs. You may need to be able to reopen the three last closed windows via History > Recently closed Windows.

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