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I have firefox set to restore previous session, but every so often (this is about the 5th time this year) i open firefox and it won't restore the session, and theres nothing in about:sessionrestore I still have the .bak files from the last two session, is there a way to restore from them? I've tried renaming them to .js like i found suggested elsewhere but that doesn't work.

I have firefox set to restore previous session, but every so often (this is about the 5th time this year) i open firefox and it won't restore the session, and theres nothing in about:sessionrestore I still have the .bak files from the last two session, is there a way to restore from them? I've tried renaming them to .js like i found suggested elsewhere but that doesn't work.

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Copying sessionstore.bak to sessionstore.js should bring back the session that was saved in it.

Did you check if there are recently closed windows or tabs?

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I tried that and it didnt work, theres about 10+ tabs to restore so they arent all going to be in the recently closed windows or tabs

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Did you find any tabs that could be restored?

If not then the sessionstore.bak file may not contain those lost tabs.

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No it doesnt have any tabs that can be restored, its happened to me twice more now