Restore Session Firefox Manually

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Ok, so if windows crashes it gives me the option to restore my last session, great. It loads all windows and tabs that were open.However if I restart manually (like I just did to install new updates) when I open ie9 after restarting I go to 'tools' and 'reatore last session'. I think it will act like crash recover restore, but no.

It opens only one window of the 3 I had open andit was a popup from a webpage that I didn't even know was open. So my session with all my tabs is GONE! This is extremely irritating.When Windows does something unwanted (crash) it restores the session perfectly. But if I restart windows properly, I get shafted and no real session restore. Agaiin this is why I left ie for firefox and I gave ie9 a fair try but it's been dissapointingme on a regular basis!

Hi,When you close Internet Explorer and end your browsing session, it keeps track of the WebPages that you had opened at the time. As a result, when you open a new browsing session, you can reopen the WebPages that were open during your previousbrowsing session. Follow these steps to reopen your last browsing session:a) Open Internet Explorer by clicking theStart button. In the search box, typeInternet Explorer, and then, in the list of results, clickInternet Explorer.b) Click the Tools button, and then clickReopen Last Browsing Session. All the WebPages that you had opened when Internet Explorer was last closed will open in new tabs.c) You can also reopen the last browsing session from the new tab page.I would suggest you to recover the tabs in the new tab page.

So tonight, my Firefox crashed. As it usually does that when the computer has been on too long, I rebooted the computer and opened up Firefox again, but it went to the home page instead of the session restore page. I went to the history tab and tried to restore it from the button there, but it just refreshed to the home page again. While I may be able to recreate the session data from my history, it won't be easy as I had quite a few tabs open at the time, not all of which I remember exactly.

It would be preferable if I can still restore it more directly. If I can't anymore, I would like to have exhausted every alternative first. I'm running Lubuntu on a Dell computer with intel core i7, and am posting here via Chromium as I am hesitant to mess up Firefox's data any further.Last edited by ColdGoldLazarus; October 25th, 2015 at 04:29 AM. Can't help with putting together your tabs to get to where you were previously, but here's something that will help in future: Session Manager.In Firefox, go to Tools Add-ons and search for 'Session Manager'. Tweak with the configuration and when Firefox crashes, Session Manager will save the session and when you re-open Firefox, you will be asked which session you would like to open (the previous session will be the first offered, but it keeps each session and you can manually save and name sessions).

A real life saver.I would advise, though, posting a new thread to try and figure out why your Firefox is crashing in the first place. Good luck.Last edited by Bucky Ball; October 25th, 2015 at 05:33 AM. May have just been from the sheer amount of tabs I had open. Behavior to learn to avoid.)Hehe. Possibly, depending on the specs of your machine, RAM specifically. I use groups for tabs, but not sure if FF reads that as still having all the tabs open or 'sleeps' the tabs in the not-visible groups.The groups button is in the top right hand corner of FF between the close/minimise/maximise buttons and the menu button (at the very right hand end of the line of tabs). It is a square made up of four rectangular 'blocks' (is one way of describing it!).

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Click that and you will see the groups. Click any tab in a group and that will open FF to that group.Might help. Helps me organise things, I know that much. That's an idea. Open a file manager to your /home directory and hit control+h to show hidden files. Navigate to:/home//.mozilla/firefox/.default/sessions.

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And see what you find. In the path above, = your username and. will be a random alpha-numeric mix, like 'WX35HR93.default', which is your FF profile. I'd back that profile file up before you start fiddling with it, perhaps, as if you delete or mess it up you may be in trouble. If you delete it, FF will create a new profile when you relaunch FF, but it will be completely default, any changes you've made to your original profile, like customising FF, will be lost.I'm presuming the /session folder is default FF folder and not attached to Session Manager (there appears to be a 'sessionstore-backups' folder for that), but I could be wrong.Last edited by Bucky Ball; October 25th, 2015 at 07:30 PM.

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The more you close and restart Firefox you are likely to lose opportunity to recover a crashed session.I use quite a number of tabs and here are some guidelines I follow.In your profile folder there is a file sessionstore.js which only appears after you quit Firefox./.mozilla/firefox//sessionstore.jsThere is also this folder. /. Machinery and equipment company. mozilla/firefox//sessionstore-backups/and in there you will find recovery.js, recovery.bakAs soon as you experience a crash (if you don't have add-on sessionmanager installed) make a point of backing up these two files as soon as you can.After first backing up these two files. Copy recovery.js into /.mozilla/firefox//and rename it as sessionstore.jsthen try restarting Firefox.It may be that this doesn't work since you've already restarted Firefox several times and each startup changes recovery.js and recovery.bak.i.e.

Restore Session Firefox Manually

The recovery chain issessionstore.jsrecovery.jsrecovery.bakRegarding using multiple tabs I recommend try TabGroupsHelper add-on.Also try installing addons.About SessionstoreNorwell (for history view)Save My Tabs (regularly saves tab URL's as txt files into profile directory to help in recovery).