Disable Shut Down Multiple Tabs Warning Prompt in Firefox
Article by George Norman
On 10 Sep 2009
Tabbed browsing means that you can open multiple web pages in a single window and switch from one page to another by simply clicking on the tab at the top. With Mozilla’s Firefox, when you have multiple tabs open and you want to shut down the browser you are greeted with a warning prompt: Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts? You can then click Save and Quit (the next time you startup Firefox the browser will load all the tabs that you opened during your previous session) or Quit (the browser closes, the tabs will not be loaded in the next session) or Cancel (the browser does not shut down).

If you find this default behavior annoying, you could always disable the Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts? warning prompt. Here are the steps you must follow in order to achieve this:

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Step 1. The first thing you need to do is launch the Firefox browser.

Step 2. In the upper part of the Firefox window there’s a list of menus -> click Tools.

Step 3. In the dropdown menu that appears click Options (the last one at the bottom).

Step 4. The Options window should have popped up -> click the Tabs tab (I’m not joking).

Step 5. Uncheck the box next to Warn me when closing multiple tabs.

Step 6. Click OK and you’re done.

Tips and warnings
There is one other way to disable the Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts? warning prompt. You can enable the browser to automatically load the tabs from your previous session whenever it starts up – see how you can do this here. If you do so, no warning prompt will be displayed when you shut down the browser. The catch is that when you fire it back up it will load all the tabs you opened in your previous session.



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