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Firefox crashed and I lost all my previous opened windows. Please help!

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I had about 60 tabs opened and my after restarting firefox and upgrading to the new version I lost all my previous tabs. I did everything the help page suggested and then I search the internet and did the following after someone suggested this:

You can visit the directory %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles, open the folder <random characters>.default, and open the file sessionstore.js with a text editor (such as Notepad), then copy-and-paste the URLs, representing the websites that were open before closing the browser, found in that file into your browser. A bit tedious, but it will work in a pinch.

However when I opened the file in notepad, I got only a blank page, nothing came up. Please let me know how I can retrieve my tabs. Thank you so much. I appreciate your help!!!!

I had about 60 tabs opened and my after restarting firefox and upgrading to the new version I lost all my previous tabs. I did everything the help page suggested and then I search the internet and did the following after someone suggested this: You can visit the directory %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles, open the folder <random characters>.default, and open the file sessionstore.js with a text editor (such as Notepad), then copy-and-paste the URLs, representing the websites that were open before closing the browser, found in that file into your browser. A bit tedious, but it will work in a pinch. However when I opened the file in notepad, I got only a blank page, nothing came up. Please let me know how I can retrieve my tabs. Thank you so much. I appreciate your help!!!!

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upgrade your browser to Firefox 8 and check

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Hi Swarnava, thank you for your reply to my question. Okay, I upgraded to the new version of firefox. Any other recommendations to find my previous tabs? When I click "restore previous session" under the history it's greyed out and does not let me click on it. Thanks again!!!

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See:

please mark solution of my previous post so other will know avout it.

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Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.

  • Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22 (caused your crash)
  • Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_21 for Mozilla browsers

Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.

Update the Java plugin to the latest version.