Preserve windows order when restoring session

[AndreasH]

When I close and re-open Firefox, the order of the windows changes randomly. By that I mean the windows that appear when I click on the Firefox icon in the Windows taskbar.

I use different windows for different purposes. E. g. one for the bug tracker, one for the Wiki, one for news, and then some for temporary tasks. Currently I have 11 windows open.

It would be quite helpful if Firefox would preserve the order of those windows. From a user perspective I don't see a good reason why it doesn't do that already.

[Jon]

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[AlexTuduran]

I need this too, as I work with many applications at the same time, many instances of Firefox and I rely on the order of the instances.

[tdietterich]

Yes, the order of the windows seems to be random after restarting. Perhaps this is interacting with the windows window manager?

[KombatWombat]

I've just switched from chrome and I too would greatly appreciate this feature. Firefox is almost unusable for me without it.

[hhoppe]

I also just switched from Chrome and this is a critical absent feature.
(I'm using Windows; I haven't tried on other platforms.)

One can manually close windows and reopen them (using control-shift-N) in a very specific order to reproduce the original window ordering, but this is way too tedious.

Chrome is able to restore the window order across sessions.

[Atario]

It's almost all random — one window always seems to come back as the first one, but the rest shift around freely each restart.

It would be very helpful if they were all stable.

[jeraisel]

I use 7 taskbar tweaker to reorder the windows, but this is a workaround, I'd like not having to do this every time I start firefox