One of the nice things about the new version of Firefox is that it will automatically reopen all the tabs you had open the last time you closed it. Internet Explorer 7 used to do this as well. However, Microsoft decided that this was not the greatest idea and took away that automatic functionality in Internet Explorer 8.
However, you can closely approximate this behavior with one simple change. You have to change your homepage to about:Tabs under Tools –> Internet Options.
Now when you open Internet Explorer you have the option to click “Reopen Last Browsing Session”. Voila you have all the tabs back from when you last closed IE8.
