The Restore Previous Session is always greyed out in my Firefox.

I have do not have any possibility to restore my previous session in my Firefox as the option under the History menu is always greyed out.
I am using Firefox 33.1.1 on OS X Yosemite (10.10.1).

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Can I disable the restore previous session that appears every time I start Firefox?

I want to disable the Restore previous session button that appears every time I start Firefox

Consider using a separate password protected Operating System account, if possible, that may help.
You may use [[Private Browsing]] to prevent some of these problems occurring.
* see also [[Clear Recent History#w_how-do-i-clear-my-history]]_how-do-i-clear-my-history (Blue text --^-- is a clickable link)

My FF crashes many a times and the last opened tabs are not restored. The Restore Previous Session under the history tab is greyed out and the the Session restore button on about:home is not there and im using FF 8.0.1

The tabs on about:home is not there instead there are Firefox advertisements and the restore button under history is greyed out>

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in permanent Private Browsing mode.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Private+Browsing
To see all History and Cookie settings, choose:
*Tools > Options > Privacy, choose the setting Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
*Deselect: [ ] "Always use private browsing mode"
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Session+Restore

The restore previous session button is not working on Firefox on any of my three machines. How can I fix this?

I have a desktop at work, and a desktop and laptop at home and just recently the "restore previous session" button that comes up when I use the desktop icon to start a Firefox Web browser session does not work. It is there and I click it but nothing happens. I have Windows 7 on the two computers at home and thought that is what I had on this computer at work, but it may be Vista. It's not XP.

Had this trouble myself, just did some research and solved it!
Go to the '''Help''' menu, go to "'''Troubleshooting Information'''"
On the new window, click "'''Open Containing folder'''" next to ''Profile Directory'' (This opens the folder on your PC where Mozilla stores some settings, like a tab history)
In the new Windows Explorer window, Find the file "'''chromeappsstore.sqlite'''"
You'll want to close Firefox and then '''delete''' that file (don't worry, Firefox will create a new one, and you won't even lose the open tabs)
Start Firefox again and the button should work!
(For completeness's sake, the profile folder for windows7 is: C:\Users\Tiberion\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\c6xu23fh.default\
where you replace Tiberion with your own username, and the random characters in the final folder will be different.)

I don't like the retore previous option. if someone were to open it they could hack my facebook account or something else. how do i turn of the restore previous session option

I don't like the restore previous session option b/c it can lead to hacking into my computer.

Hello,
You could read this-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_4#Migration_issues
But if you really want to go to Firefox 3.6,
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older
and click the "Download" link for English Windows.

What does the "restore previous session" menu option do?

It seems that it would be obvious, except this option is '''''always''''' greyed out.
I keep my history for the longest available period of time, so it shouldn't be erasing anything.

Is session restore enabled and working?
Does Firefox create a sessionstore.js in the Firefox Profile Folder?
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Session+Restore
If you use cleanup software like CCleaner then check the settings for the Firefox application.
Make sure that you do not use "Clear history when Firefox closes" to clear the "Browsing History".
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history" > [X] Clear history when Firefox closes > Settings
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
Make sure that you do not run Firefox in permanent Private Browsing mode.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Private+Browsing
To see all History and Cookie settings, choose:
*Tools > Options > Privacy, choose the setting Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
*Deselect: [ ] "Always use private browsing mode"

Does the restore previous session call get destroyed too with the new forget button in firefox

I have checked under startup to restore previous session ... Can it still if I use the new forget button since it states all tabs are closed ... so that would be last session to my thinking Rick Carter

I think there is a serious risk that your session history will be cleared, too. However, I haven't tested it yet. If you want to preserve a copy of your session history files while you experiment, you can back them up as follows:
Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either
* "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
* (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information
* type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter
In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button. This should launch a list of your settings files.
Look for a folder named '''sessionstore-backups''' and copy it in its entirely to a safe location such as your Documents folder.
You also should find a file named sessionstore.js which contains your current session windows and tabs. You could back that one up, too, but the recovery.js file in the sessionstore-backups folder should be identical or virtually identical (it may lag a little, but should be updated to be the same fairly quickly).

How do I get the restore previous session

1st how do I get the history menu to have functioning "Restore previous session" and "Recently Closed Tabs" and "Recently Closed Windows" options? They are not usually in black but gray, not useable.
2nd, how do I get to articles which explain things like the history menu and how to use it without asking a question through this process?

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: Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > History: Firefox will: "Never Remember History"
*To see all History and Cookie settings, choose: Firefox > Preferences > Privacy, choose the setting Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
* Deselect: [ ] "Permanent Private Browsing mode"

In Certificate Manager, when I try to confirm an exception, the make permanent box is always greyed out.

In Firefox 7.0.1, Mac OSX 10.6.8.
I accidentally deleted some security certificates. I can get a temporary certificate OK in Certificate Manager, and Confirm Security Exception then works, but the 'Permanently store this exception' box remains greyed out, so I have to go through the procedure every time.

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in permanent Private Browsing mode.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Private+Browsing
To see all History and Cookie settings, choose: Tools > Options > Privacy, choose the setting Firefox will: Use custom settings for history
*Deselect: [ ] "Always use private browsing mode"

How can I add the Restore Previous Session button to a custom home page?

Just lost my full post, so, sorry for the abruptness.
Here's what I have:
<pre><nowiki><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html [
<!ENTITY % htmlDTD
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
%htmlDTD;
<!ENTITY % globalDTD SYSTEM "chrome://global/locale/global.dtd">
%globalDTD;
<!ENTITY % aboutHomeDTD SYSTEM "chrome://browser/locale/aboutHome.dtd">
%aboutHomeDTD;
<!ENTITY % browserDTD SYSTEM "chrome://browser/locale/browser.dtd" >
%browserDTD;
]>
<HTML>
<button class="launchButton" id="restorePreviousSession">&historyRestoreLastSession.label;</button>
</HTML></nowiki></pre>
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

If someone can tell me this forum's tags for posting code, I'll gladly correct my original post so you can correctly see the code that I'm using. >.<

The Restore previous session button is dead. Not doing anything

I have been able to use this before but this time, I click and nothing. Dead. Went to history and tried it there. Same result. No error message just a dead button

Hi trustdiva-
Did you try restarting the browser and trying it again? Have you upgraded to the latest version of Firefox? That would be the best place to start.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Is there a way to restore to a prior point in time? I somehow lost all Tab Groups and Tabs...and Restore Previous Session is grey, so that's not an option.

I've gone through all support pages, and still can't find a solution. I'm needing to restore to a specific day/time period. I lost literally hundreds of hours of research...and MUST find a way to get those Tab Groups and Tabs restored.
Again, for some reason, the Restore Previous Session option is greyed out...and not an option.
From what I've read, there may be some files in the Firefox profile folder that can be used, but it's not clear the steps to take to see if this would do what I need, and before I mess with those files, etc... I'd really need someone from tech support to review all this and assist me.

You can try to restore a previous version of the sessionstore.js file.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
*http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Previous-versions-of-files-frequently-asked-questions

Can't restore previous session (greyed out); lost all tabs and groups

I've had a similar problem with FireFox version 30 as found in the following question: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/997956?esab=a&as=aaq
I lost all my tabs including those in two groups (maybe 100 tabs) that I'd been keeping for a couple of years and in some cases much longer. Very occasionally I'll get the "oops this is embarrassing" message from FF and when I click on the Restore Previous Session button they reappear.
What happened this time is that when booting my computer (Windows 7), Adobe Flash wanted to download an update, and instead of waiting for the boot to finish as I normally would, I clicked on the Adobe Flash Download Update button. It then opened FF and hung, so I eventually used Task Manager to end FF. After the computer finished booting, when I opened FF it had no open tabs or groups, and the Restore Previous Session option (and each of the other options in that grouping in the History menu) was greyed.
When investigating, I find I do have the sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak files from yesterday (each about 4.5 mb), but I don't know how to access them because the Restore Previous Session option is greyed.

Awesome. And maybe back up your sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak files somewhere outside of your Firefox settings folder in case you need them for a future recovery. (That would involve copying them back to your active profile folder while Firefox is closed so it finds them when it starts back up again.)

How do I make firefox restore previous session every time it crashes?

I really like the "restore previous session" window that shows up sometimes when firefox crashes, being able to pick and choose which tabs and windows to reopen. My question is are there any add-ons or ways of making it so this happens every time I have to reopen firefox? Right now it only does it occasionally, other times it automatically reopens every tab loading them as I go which makes the process of finding which windows I want and getting back up to speed much lengthier. This is quite an annoyance because you'd think after force quiting firefox would default to this every time, but usually it reopens every tab and I have to try and purposely crash the browser hoping I'll get the "restore previous session" window. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Yes, you can. Firefox will try to automatically restore once. If that fails, then it gives you the screen to choose. To prevent automatic restoration and always go straight to that windows/tabs list, change a setting here:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box in that tab, type or paste '''sessions''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click '''browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes''' and change the 1 to a 0 (a zero) and OK that.
(4) You can close this tab now.
Hopefully you won't need to test it any time soon -- if you are crashing a lot, we should try to figure out how to stop that.

How to restore previous session (with sync on)

My lights went out and after restart Firefox lost my previous session. "Restore previous session" option is greyed out. I had Sync on at all times, would this help? This pc is my only synced device, though.
This is, like, the fifth time Firefox screwed up my previous session. Seriously, you guys.

averagefailguy,
Hey, no need to be rude.
Your question was:
<blockquote> I had Sync on at all times, would this help? This pc is my only synced device, though. </blockquote>
As the-edmeister pointed out, no, you can't. If Firefox closed improperly or was forced to shut down due to a power outage, Sync probably wouldn't have synced it over and if it did, it was likely corrupt.
<s>You said Firefox crashed? There may be some crash reports left over to see what caused the crash</s> 
EDIT: Forgot Firefox didn't crash but force closed.

The Restore Previous Session is always greyed out in my Firefox.

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