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Recover Window, Tabs, and History

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solkeys
solkeys
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By mistake I closed my window with many important tabs in it. I tried to recover it. it seems by trying to recover I also lost all my history. It seems that I did not following to instruction posted previously correctly. I would appreciate if I can get instruction in extremely easy and plain instructions how to recover.

By mistake I closed my window with many important tabs in it. I tried to recover it. it seems by trying to recover I also lost all my history. It seems that I did not following to instruction posted previously correctly. I would appreciate if I can get instruction in extremely easy and plain instructions how to recover.

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ARMAN KHAN
ARMAN KHAN
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hello solkeys,

Anytime by mistake open tab and brower are close don't worry you should simply open browser and Rignt click Plus +sign (tab) "Reopen Closed Tab" Your closed tab return back.

Thank Regards, -Arman

solkeys
solkeys Question owner
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But here all is lost

FredMcD
FredMcD
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This might help; sessionstore [v56] sessionstore.jsonlz4 file(s).

If you need to rescue any data from them, just move them out of the profile folder to some location where Firefox doesn't look for them. You can try to read out their contents using this tool: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html


Type about:support<enter> in the address box.

Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To its right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.

Windows: Show Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder

Linux: Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Directory. To its right press the button Open Directory.

Locate the above file.