This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

New tab instead of my previous session

arnifreyr72
arnifreyr72
more options

Hi.

This seems to be a horrible new bug in Firefox 45.0.1. This has happened to me at least twice. When I click an old tab, all I get is an empty tab. Firefox shows the the correct icons for the web page bug can't get the url again. I tried bookmarking all my tabs, hoping that I could get my old tabs again but unfortunately the "bookmark all tabs" could only bookmark a few of them, nearly none. Please notice my attached image of the Firefox browser (45.0.1) which shows that all or most of the tabs have the text "New tab" and can no longer show the correct url when I click on that particular tab. The icon as you see is showing an icon for some web page on the Internet.

Good luck.

Hope you will fix this soon, this is a severe bug and probably affects many.

Arni Freyr Jonsson, Software Developer in Iceland.

Hi. This seems to be a horrible new bug in Firefox 45.0.1. This has happened to me at least twice. When I click an old tab, all I get is an empty tab. Firefox shows the the correct icons for the web page bug can't get the url again. I tried bookmarking all my tabs, hoping that I could get my old tabs again but unfortunately the "bookmark all tabs" could only bookmark a few of them, nearly none. Please notice my attached image of the Firefox browser (45.0.1) which shows that all or most of the tabs have the text "New tab" and can no longer show the correct url when I click on that particular tab. The icon as you see is showing an icon for some web page on the Internet. Good luck. Hope you will fix this soon, this is a severe bug and probably affects many. Arni Freyr Jonsson, Software Developer in Iceland.
Attached screenshots

All Replies (2)

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

A possible way to inspect a sessionstore.js file or a file in the sessionstore-backups folder is opening the file in a Firefox tab and evaluate this JavaScript code in the Web Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer). Paste the code in the command line of the Web Console and press the Enter key to evaluate the code. 

eval("ss = "+document.body.innerHTML.replace("<pre>","").replace("</pre>",""));
sd='';
for (var i = 0; i < ss.windows[0].tabs.length; i++) {
 var ent = ss.windows[0].tabs[i].entries;
 var last = ent[ent.length-1];
 sd+="["+(i+1)+"]:"+"<a href="+last.url+">"+last.url+"</a><br />";
}
document.body.innerHTML=sd;
arnifreyr72
arnifreyr72 Question owner
more options

I don't have any idea what you are talking about !