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Hard drive is dying, need to save and import active Firefox session to new hard drive

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My hard disk is dying (rapidly) and I need to replace it ASAP with a new one. I have the new hard drive on hand and have all my personal stuff saved to a second (backup) drive. But I also have many, many open tabs / window sessions of Mozilla Firefox up. How do I backup my current browsing session - complete with all active windows and tabs - to my backup drive. Then how do I import that session over to my new hard drive after I've installed it ? I'm running Windows7 and will reinstall it on the new drive.

My hard disk is dying (rapidly) and I need to replace it ASAP with a new one. I have the new hard drive on hand and have all my personal stuff saved to a second (backup) drive. But I also have many, many open tabs / window sessions of Mozilla Firefox up. How do I backup my current browsing session - complete with all active windows and tabs - to my backup drive. Then how do I import that session over to my new hard drive after I've installed it ? I'm running Windows7 and will reinstall it on the new drive.

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cor-el
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Session data is stored in the sessionstore.js file in the Firefox profile folder.

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

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder