I've used primarily Firefox's built-in session management until recently. Now my needs have become more sophisticated. What I want is to be able to have two windows, one with a fixed set of tabs (approximately five) and the other with "automatic save".
That is, when I start Firefox, I want one window to open with my five tabs, and another to open with whatever I had when I shut down Firefox. I've installed "Session Manager", but I can't seem to get it to do what I want. It will save one window, but when I close one window, it removes that one from the session.
How do I do this with either Session Manager or another plugin?
Best Answer
Just make sure "Tools > Options > Main > Startup > When Firefox starts > show my windows and tabs from last time" is selected and that you close Firefox from "File > Exit" so you close all windows. If you close Firefox windows separetely Firefox will only bring back the last closed window.
This was my set-up, but now I just use one window, together with the FaviconizeTab addon to strip the titles from all tabs, and leave the permanent tabs at the lefmost postions. This way, I don't have to switch between Firefox windows.