How to get the "well, this is embarrassing" screen every time I start Firefox

Question

Sometimes, when Firefox doesn't quit cleanly (perhaps because it crashed, or because the whole computer crashed or didn't successfully terminated Firefox when shutting down), Firefox shows a Well, this is embarrassing page where you can manually select the tabs you want to restore.

I really like this feature, and I'd like to see that screen every time I start Firefox. I have a tendency of not closing tabs, and with this screen, I can choose which tabs I really want.

Is there a way (an extension I suppose) to get this message each time (other than manually crashing Firefox each time I want to quit it)?

Answer 1

You can display the session restore "well, this is embarrassing" page at any time once Firefox is running (and quite possibly all your tabs are already open!) by typing about:sessionrestore in the address bar. Can you do this if you have selected "Show a blank page" for the "When Firefox starts" option as Pierre suggests? Worth a try.

Can you make about:sessionrestore your "home page" and display your "home page" when Firefox starts?!

More information:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
• https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Session+Restore

Answer 2

I don't know if I'm getting well what your need is, but there is a preference that you can set to re-open Firefox with the tabs opened like they were when you've closed Firefox the last time you used it:

Answer 3

This can be a problem with the file sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Profile Folder.

Delete sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Profile Folder. If you see files sessionstore-##.js with a number in the left part of the name like sessionstore-1.js then delete those as well.