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i lost my tabs and i cant get them baaack

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aelrhdfn
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aaaaaaaaaa i had like 40 tabs and then firefox crashed and i reopened it and it had the usual "Firefox could not restore your session" screen with the options to restore or start a new session and i ALWAYS restore my session except this one time i decided not to restore it and just closed it thinking the same screen would show up again next time but it DIDNT and just went to the firefox home page and now i dont know how to get my old tabs back and im kind of having a panic attack aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sorry im kind of emotionally unstable sorry sorry sorry (uhhh also im using the latest firefox 3 update probably i have personal reasons for not wanting to switch to 4 sorry :c )

aaaaaaaaaa i had like 40 tabs and then firefox crashed and i reopened it and it had the usual "Firefox could not restore your session" screen with the options to restore or start a new session and i ALWAYS restore my session except this one time i decided not to restore it and just closed it thinking the same screen would show up again next time but it DIDNT and just went to the firefox home page and now i dont know how to get my old tabs back and im kind of having a panic attack aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sorry im kind of emotionally unstable sorry sorry sorry (uhhh also im using the latest firefox 3 update probably i have personal reasons for not wanting to switch to 4 sorry :c )

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David McRitchie
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Firefox 4 change the way that works, now you restore through the History Menu then choose "Restore Previous session". More information initem 31 (#tabslost)

You can make Firefox 4.0.1 look like Firefox 3.6.17, see numbered items 1-10 in the following topic Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 4.0 look like 3.6)

aelrhdfn
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but

does switching to firefox 4 let me bring back my tabs that i just lost

or are they basically gone forever

this is a thing that i need to know

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cor-el
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You probably lost that session if you closed that window. If you had used one of the other methods then Firefox would have created a backup copy. Firefox 4 will always create a backup copy, but Firefox 3.6 versions do not do that.

You can check the history to see if you can reconstruct them.

If you had crashes before then you can check the files in the Firefox Profile Folder to see if there is a file sessionstore.bak

If you find it and it is of a recent date then make a backup copy elsewhere and rename the file to sessionstore.js to see if that brings back some of the missing tabs.