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The thing that kept me from upgrading was TreeStyleTabs, but there is a non-XUL version of it which works fairly well.

While it is a pain, it's not as if Mozilla removed XUL support with no warning. What addons are you missing? Perhaps we can find updates or replacements?

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Session manager is the main one that's missing for me. Nothing else can reliably selectively restore a session with full history and unloaded tabs on startup after a crash for me.

Interesting. I've never had an issue with the built-in session restore functionality. I'm not dismissing you, but asking what issues you've had with it (so that I can watch out for them.)

the add on can make multiple dated session stores and you can pick which to restore from.

Sometimes, usually after a crash, firefox will restore an empty session. Session manager has a working backup in those cases.

Likewise, I will not go further with firefox until there is a working session manager. The one supposed alternative that is compatible has poor reviews and appears unreliable.

I might add that I was a nightly user for over 30 prior versions.

Classic Theme Restorer, Tab Mix Plus, Session Manager, Status-4-Evar.

I've looked for replacements but haven't found anything that comes close. From what I can gather, much of the functionality that allowed these extensions is now removed from Firefox. I thought equivalent APIs were going to be made available so they could be ported but that didn't happen.

For me it's EdgeWise, Session Manager, DownThemAll, Status-4-Evar.

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