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Where is the history for restoring pages after forced quit?

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AnonymousUser
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I've did a force quit weeks ago and restarted. The restore tab with all its choices showed in the browser as it should. I wanted the option to go back and open the previously restored ones but haven't yet, and have just been browsing in new tabs. I accidentally quit Firefox and when I restarted nothing is restorable. Is there any way to restore that tab with all my past history, or is it permanently overwritten by a new session history? Thanks, Dan

I've did a force quit weeks ago and restarted. The restore tab with all its choices showed in the browser as it should. I wanted the option to go back and open the previously restored ones but haven't yet, and have just been browsing in new tabs. I accidentally quit Firefox and when I restarted nothing is restorable. Is there any way to restore that tab with all my past history, or is it permanently overwritten by a new session history? Thanks, Dan

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Morbus
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Hello Dan.

Granted you didn't close Firefox in the meanwhile (because that would overwrite the previous session), and the session restore screen didn't show up, you can access about:sessionrestore in the location bar.

That will allow you to restore the previous session, whether it was forced quit or not.