That option is broken and obsolete IMHO, I wish it would get removed.
But, I have never heard of it causing tab loss. Are you sure it wasn’t something else that caused it? Did this occur after a browser restart?
You can of course re-open tabs directly from Menu -> History -> Recently closed but the number of them is limited; you would have to go to the main History view for the rest.
Nope, that was the only change I made.
My open tabs stayed for years… never a problem until I changed that option. I changed it back, but it didn’t matter… damage was done.
“Recently Closed” only shows tabs since the problem occured.
I went to “History,” but I would need to restore each tab individually. What a nuisance… very disappointed.