Unfortunately the Developer Toolbar (GCLI) has been removed from newer Firefox versions so the above mentioned method no longer works in newer versions of Mozilla Firefox web browser.ĭon’t worry! There are some other methods to quickly restart Firefox browser without losing running tabs. How to Restart Mozilla Firefox With All Opened Tabs In older versions, Firefox used to provide Developer Toolbar (GCLI) to quickly restart the browser as mentioned in following tutorial: Today in this article, we’ll talk about the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser. In such situations, we need a dedicated Restart button to restart our web browser without losing tabs.
We’ll need to manually restore all previous tabs and windows using restore previous session option. Yes, we can close the browser and then re-open it by clicking on its icon on Desktop or Start Menu but this way, we’ll lose all running tabs and windows. There might be several reasons behind the need of restarting the browser. Or the browser might be running very slow or consuming high CPU resources. We might need to restart the browser to complete some add-on/extension installation or to apply some changes made by advanced configuration page. Many times we have opened multiple tabs in our web browser and we need to restart it.
