Firefox How to enable Saved Tabs before closing
Posted by in Internet February 16, 2012 3 Comments

If anyone has ever used In Firefox 3, you will see button “Save and Quit” when exit Firefox. This feature which allow users to save all current open tabs before closing Firefox is very helpful. And of course, all of you surely like this function, I think.

Firefox with "Save and Quit" button

Firefox with "Save and Quit" button

But in Firefox 4 through 10, this feature does not appear by default.
When closing Firefox(currently I am using version 10), it displays as the below image.

Firefox with no "Save and Quit" button

Firefox with no "Save and Quit" button

In order to enable this feature, do the following step by step :

  • 1. In Firefox, at the URL address box, type in “about:config” and press “Enter” to go, then click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!“.
Firefox About:Configure

Firefox About:Configure

Firefox after typing about:config

Firefox after typing about:config

  • 2. Because Firefox 10 supports auocomplete in “Filter” box, so you just need to type “quit“,it will auto filter for you.The item “browser.showQuitWarning” appears in the filter result, then double click on this item or right click on this item and choose “Toggle
Firefox typing in filter

Firefox typing in filter

The value of “browser.showQuitWarning”is changed from “false” to “true”

Firefox set value of browser.showQuitWarning

Firefox set value of browser.showQuitWarning

The configuration finishes here, now we try to close Firefox and will see the expected result.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.rizo Eric Rizo

    This has NEVER worked for me. I have set all the  “browser.”
    configurations correctly and I still get the second dialog box “confirm
    close” never “quit firefox” only in 3.x versions =(. I’ve been
    struggling with this for a long time…and I’m in I.T. =(. I refuse to
    uninstall my browser and reset appdata settings to my work computer
    mainly because I don’t know how that will be received as it is a shared
    computer. Any other suggestions? Perhaps I’m missing something else?

    • Quynhnguyenm83

       Thank you so much for sharing! But could you describe more this case, such as : window or Linux?, Firefox version, how about “reset user preferences and redo” ?

  • Dudi Do

    Its realy works (-;
    on firefox 10.0.2