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Jun 19, 2008

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Disable Firefox 3 Auto Save Tabs on Close to Prompt for Choice

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When closing a window of Firefox 3.0 with multiple tabs open, the “Quit Firefox” dialog box with option to Save and Quite or just Quit without saving may be disabled and not be prompted or shown. Instead, Firefox automatically and silently saves all currently open tabs on exit, and then restore and reopen these tabs on next restart.

The no confirmation prompt on exit of Firefox 3 scenerio can happen by action of user or by design. When the user check the option of “Do not ask next time” and then click “Save and Quit” or “Quit”, then Firefox will no longer gives any warning in future and will close the window directly according to the action chosen.

Beside, if user set the “When Firefox starts” preference under Tools -> Options to “Show my windows and tabs from last time”, the Firefox 3 will auto save tabs on close too without prompting user to choose a selection of action choices. This is significantly different from Firefox 2, where the change is explained on article about missing or not working warning when closing multiple tabs.

To revert and disable auto saving of tabs when closing Firefox window, go to Tools -> Options, and configure the following settings:

For When Firefox starts, select Show my home page or Show a blank page.
Check (tick) the check box for Warn me when closing multiple tabs.

If you prefer to configure via about:config Firefox configuration page, set the following preference with the corresponding values:

browser.tabs.warnOnClose: true
browser.warnOnQuit: true
browser.startup.page: 1 or 2

Related posts:

1. Firefox 3 Doesn’t Prompt or Warn to Confirm When Closing Multiple Tabs As Warning Not Working
2. Disable FireFox Tabbed Browsing Scroll Arrows and Scrolling Tabs Feature
3. Change the Position of FireFox Tabs Close Button (or Revert Back to FireFox 1.5 Style at the End of Tab Strip)
4. Recover and Reopen Accidentally Closed Tab on FireFox Web Browser
5. Remove or Hide Windows Live Messenger Tabs

10 Comments

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  paul July 25, 2011 at 2:47 am

  ths dude it realy helped me a lot

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  Harsh Gupta April 13, 2011 at 10:20 pm

  Thank you very much for this valuable informaition …

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  Harsh Gupta April 13, 2011 at 10:19 pm

  Very nice,thanks 4 sharing this valuable informtion

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  sabata mereeotlhe April 4, 2011 at 2:29 am

  for those who like to be asked if you want to save your tabs in firefox 4

  browser.showQuitWarning = true

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  Polishqueue February 16, 2011 at 9:52 am

  Here's my issue: I LIKE having the ability to save my tabs… about once every blue moon or so. Mostly I don't. How can I change the default to "don't save"?

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  BlueElectrode December 1, 2010 at 10:33 pm

  Tanks man, this was exactly what i was looking for!

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  kurok May 15, 2010 at 10:40 pm

  thanks for this! it was getting annoying.

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  Carlos April 26, 2010 at 1:43 pm

  Thank you very much! .. I learned several things and I solved a problem .. Greetings.

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  Annonnymmuss March 9, 2010 at 11:54 pm

  Wow! this tip was so great, I was wondering how to set back to my home page, instead to show my last tabs… it bacame so annoying, and was loading slow.

  Thank you very much

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  Zoliduz April 18, 2009 at 10:01 pm

  gracias amigo me ayudaste mucho

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