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In the Add-ons window, if I enable/disable an Extension, a yellow bar with a "Restart Firefox" button appears. This tells me "Firefox will try to restore your tabs and Windows when it restarts."
I want it to pick up some new plugins, and not enable/disable any existing ones. How do I restart Firefox manually, without losing my tabs/Windows?
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Go to Edit > Preferences > Main > When FireFox starts and select Show my windows and tabs from last time. Once. After that, you can close FireFox, and it'll be remember everything you have open to show you next time you start it
[edit] For Firefox 5 on Windows, the option is located at: Tools > Options > General > When Firefox starts: Select "Show my windows and tabs from last time"
user7963
Posted 2009-09-21T17:37:03.540
Reputation: 1 397
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Just close the browser and then re-open it.
You can also use this addin QuickRestart, which will add a button you can put on your toolbar to allow for 1-click restart.
eidylon
Posted 2009-09-21T17:37:03.540
Reputation: 1 667
@Nathaniel: Doesn't work (FF4) – Bora – 2011-05-16T19:25:52.960
Ctrl+Alt+R still works in FF4. I just looked in my File menu, checked to see if the command was still there and it is; I then tried pressing the key combo, and my FF4 restarted. If it is not working for you, you may have an extension which is conflicting with it somehow. – eidylon – 2011-05-17T15:46:21.313
Plus Ctrl+Alt+R keyboard shortcut. – Nathaniel – 2009-09-22T03:50:33.153
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You seem to have two disjoint parts in your question.
If you have already done point 1 and want to now do point 2 without causing effect of actions in point 1, you will need to undo the enables and disables you did there.
All this can be done without a restart.
If the session manager is around (as others point out), it will restore your tabs after the restart.
nik
Posted 2009-09-21T17:37:03.540
Reputation: 50 788
I'm afraid I was unclear. I was simply using the enable/disable to demonstrate that Firefox apparently already has a "restore windows" feature. I just didn't know how to use it, except through toggling extensions. There are lots of times it's useful to restart Firefox that have nothing to do with installing extensions, e.g., when Firebug smashes your global CSS. – None – 2009-09-21T22:02:10.353
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Assuming you are on Windows, I generally go to Task Manager and kill the process. The next time I restart Firefox it gives me the option to restore my tabs.
PeanutsMonkey
Posted 2009-09-21T17:37:03.540
Reputation: 7 780
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Ubiquity can do this, among it's many, many features, with "restart-firefox" :)
Phoshi
Posted 2009-09-21T17:37:03.540
Reputation: 22 001
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You can try Firefox' session restore page (about:sessionrestore), see if it helps.
Sathyajith Bhat
Posted 2009-09-21T17:37:03.540
Reputation: 58 436
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Click close, then start it again. Newer versions of Firefox will reopen your tabs from last time. Use Help > About, and make sure your version is 3.0 or newer. (If it's not, click help > check for updates).
Warning: Tab Mix Plus disables this feature. It's own session manager works differently.
Alternatively, just wait until you are finished installing/enabling/disabling extensions to press the Restart Firefox button.
Macha
Posted 2009-09-21T17:37:03.540
Reputation: 4 772
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I personally use the Session Manager extension for this. It saves my session, including all open tabs and history, so that when Firefox restarts (or crashes !), I can go back to one of my previous sessions without losing any tabs.
Firefox 19 appears to be different. – Dave Jarvis – 2013-03-25T23:59:44.330