In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows

How would people function without knowing this?? Maybe I'm just young, but this has been a thing as far back as I can remember (maybe 2010 or so), on all browsers I've used (Safari, Chrome, Firefox).

Ctrl+Shift+T anywhere.

Command + Shift + T on mac os, and Ctrl + Shift + T for Windows

You're welcome

Ctrl+Shift+T

Literally every browser has this feature, it's not unique to Firefox.

CTRL+SHFT+t

Will reopen your last closed tab.

Shift+ctrl+T is usually the keyboard shortcut to bring back closed tabs Shift+ctrl+N is to bring back closed windows (doesn't work on private browsing windows)

I can still feel the pain when it’s 2 AM and you meant to Ctrl + Shift + T and you’re muscle memory leaks in and hits you with the Ctrl + Shift + W.

FYI there’s a confirm close option that will mitigate this terrible scenario, for anyone that’s been there before.

I have Ctrl + W and Crtl + Shift + T bound to my mouse for this reason.

You can just press CTRL+SHIFT+T and CTRL+SHIFT+N continually to reopen closed tabs and windows, respectively, in the order they were closed.

ctrl+shift+t

As someone who frequently has windows with 1000+ tabs, this feature has saved my bacon countless times.

I wish Firefox had a method to restore windows after a restart. Losing all my tabs across multiple windows due to work required updates is a huge pain.

I highly recommend Tab Session Manager if you're a crazy person like me.

It also persists through a reboot, so if you shutdown or reboot with tabs open, it will ask you to restore the previous session when you next start it after the boot.

If you didn't restore it, but didn't open any more tabs, you can close it again, reboot, etc, and this option will still work to get your tabs back when you're ready.

Chrome crippling the reopen tab option(they removed from right click menu) is what drove me back to Firefox.

Oh yeah this feature is a godsend

Only the last three or so windows though, so if you got a few pop-ups before you press that you might be screwed...

...unless you have backups of an old session file, then you can use this tool to restore a list of those tabs: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ffu/scrounger.html

There is also this handy addon for saving backups of windows like that to a txt list of urls: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/urls-list/

How do you people make the screenshots of popups in Firefox? Every time I press Print Screen they just keep fading away.

I rely on this all too often...

It works until Firefox applies updates and the next time you open it it automatically loads a "what's new in Firefox" tab erasing your previous session. Then you're SOL unless there's some way around that.

I know this, but I'm peeved that when I shut my computer off with Firefox open, I have a 50/50 chance of it automatically bringing all my tabs back on the next launch.

Uh, you can also use these things called bookmarks to save commonly accessed webpages… also this is a feature of literally every web browser since checks notes forever.

Good tip, though I have just hidden the close button with userChrome.css. It does not protect against alt+f4, though..

@OP When you have continue session on, closing Firefox using burger menu->Quit restores all windows. I assume this will also keep the pins even without continue session.

Saved my butt a few times already.

I also like that its PDF viewer opens exactly at where I left it at.

In my FF I have set the "reopen all tabs that were there when I closed" option, so it never has been a problem

Even works with 200 tabs open.