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Restore Previous Session

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itsmp
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Fire Fox 11.0 didn't crash. I closed it normally. It always remembers my tabs. For some reason when I started up fire fox this time it was a completely new session and all my tabs are gone.

I don't know why but I want to know how to restore them. Fire Fox is set to load previous session. This didn't happen neither did I get the message: Oopps this is embarrassing. Do you want to restore your previous session?

When I go to about:Home I can't say restore previous session either because all I see is "Using Firefox on several computers? Now you can synchronize your add-ons across them all. Find out how to activate Sync."

Fire Fox 11.0 didn't crash. I closed it normally. It always remembers my tabs. For some reason when I started up fire fox this time it was a completely new session and all my tabs are gone. I don't know why but I want to know how to restore them. Fire Fox is set to load previous session. This didn't happen neither did I get the message: Oopps this is embarrassing. Do you want to restore your previous session? When I go to about:Home I can't say restore previous session either because all I see is "Using Firefox on several computers? Now you can synchronize your add-ons across them all. Find out how to activate Sync."

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user633449
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If you click "History", can you restore your previous session from there?

Also, make sure you update to Firefox 12.

cor-el
cor-el
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You can check the Firefox Profile Folder to see if there is a sessionstore-##.js file with a number in the name from around that time.

Is you see such file(s) the make a backup copy and copy the sessionstore-##.js with the number to sessionstore.js to see if that brings back the lost session.

You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder

Windows may hide the .js file extension, so make sure that the copy or rename is done properly by checking the properties of the file.

Blaragha
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I have the same problem, though the real problem right now is that all my sessionstore-##.js files are really really old. The new ones that are supposed to be there doesn't seem to exist. Is there anyway to find them?

Also, i run Firefox 12 if that is a issue.

Modified by Blaragha