I have forked this addon and added several fixes and a support for favicon, session restore and ignore protected url.

And as a bonus it removes google search links prefixing.

Original hack concept still goes to this addon author

Doesn't prevent tabs to load upon startup.

Tab unloaded by LoadTabOnSelect - i also have this, unusable at this time

If you unload a closed tab you receive a tab with a simple "text Tab unloaded by LoadTabOnSelect." but the tab is impossible to recover. Please fix this behavior.