Manual restart firefox

You can "refresh" Firefox in a way that removes any add-ons and themes you might have installed. This also resets your preferences, including the home page and the search engine, to the defaults. Refreshing Firefox is not supposed to delete bookmarks or saved passwords, but there are no guarantees. It might be best to back up your Firefox bookmarks first, and to also take a screenshot of the add-ons you have installed so that you can reinstall those you want to keep.

The other way is to restart Firefox in "Safe Mode," which will temporarily disable, but not delete, add-ons and themes. This will not affect your preferences, so if a potentially unwanted program has hijacked your home page and search engine, they'll stay that way, but it's worth trying. You'll be presented with two options. You can fully refresh, i.

Your bookmarks. The "notifications" permission is necessary in order to display warning messages and information. The "web browsing" permission is necessary in method 3 to be able to record the session automatically. The "communication with applications" permission is required in method 5 to be able to communicate with "Time Restart Windows". Notice: Some browser protected pages For example: about:config, about:addons, about:debugging, etc as well as the options page will not be recorded or recovered.

You can report errors on the website or suggestions. You can collaborate by making a donation or buying the auxiliary application, available on the website, this application allows you to restart the browser completely.

You can see videos of "Time Restart Windows" in action here: Time Restart Windows video1 Time Restart Windows video2 You also have another extension that only adds a button to restart the browser in manual mode, this extension is called "Restart Browser" and you can see it here: Restart Browser Learn more on Time Restart Website. How are you enjoying Time Restart? Log in to rate this extension. Report this add-on for abuse. Report this add-on for abuse If you think this add-on violates Mozilla's add-on policies or has security or privacy issues, please report these issues to Mozilla using this form.

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Select a collection… Create new collection. Fixed a problem entering url home page in method 4. The disk writes to sessionstore. Session Store causes a number of performance issues. This is a large several megabytes , monolithic file, which needs to be fully rewritten every few seconds, which needs to be fully loaded on startup, which needs to be fully rebuilt on shutdown, etc. We can certainly redesign it for better performance. Bug - sessionRestoreJank [meta] Re-architect session restore to avoid periodic freezes Bug - large sessionStorage data causes session restore to block the UI Bug - Investigate how to redesign sessionstore.

Google Group "mozilla. Some pages store a lot of data in the Session Store. Bug Most likely. Bug - Replace the sessionstore. Done as part of bug Statistics shows that this had no big effect on the size of sessionstore. Via bug ???