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How Do I Recover Lost Tabs?

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Restore previous session is grayed out. I've looked at solutions to people with a similar problem and gotten to the point where I backed up the contents in the sessionstore-backups folder in my documents. Inside the folder is an upgrade.js from late last night that should have my tabs, but I don't understand what to do with it. When I look for directions, I keep seeing to rename the upgrade.js to sessionstore.js and rename the other sessionstore.js to like sessionstore.old. The problem is, is I don't see sessionstore.js anywhere and I don't know how to add the upgrade.js to my main profile.

Restore previous session is grayed out. I've looked at solutions to people with a similar problem and gotten to the point where I backed up the contents in the sessionstore-backups folder in my documents. Inside the folder is an upgrade.js from late last night that should have my tabs, but I don't understand what to do with it. When I look for directions, I keep seeing to rename the upgrade.js to sessionstore.js and rename the other sessionstore.js to like sessionstore.old. The problem is, is I don't see sessionstore.js anywhere and I don't know how to add the upgrade.js to my main profile.

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The previous.js file is rather large, so make a backup of that file just to be sure.

Try to copy that previous.js file to sessionstore.js in the main profile folder.

You can check History > Recently Closed Tabs/Windows

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iceisnice
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Things have changed slightly. Here is what I have in the sessionstore-backups folder.

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Chosen Solution

The previous.js file is rather large, so make a backup of that file just to be sure.

Try to copy that previous.js file to sessionstore.js in the main profile folder.

You can check History > Recently Closed Tabs/Windows

iceisnice
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How do I get to the main profile folder? I haven't seen sessionstore.js anywhere.

Edit: Nevermind, I'm in the folder, but still no sessionrestore when FF is closed

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So I copied the previous.js from the sessionstore-backups folder and pasted it in the main profile folder and renamed it to sessionstore.js, but restore previous session is still grayed out.

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Firefox would open the session stored in that sessionstore.js (previous.js) file automatically without the need to restore the previous session if there isn't a problem with this file.

Did you check History > Recently Closed Tabs/Windows to see if there are closed tabs or windows?

You can open the file in the Scratchpad ("3-bar" menu button or Tools > Web Developer) to see if it contains the lost tabs. Click the "Pretty Print" button to format the file for readability.

iceisnice
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Recently Closed Tabs/Windows didn't show up when I clicked history. But when I open the most recent update.js and the previous.js I see the URLs. I opened scratchpad, but I don't think it is working for me. Nothing I click does anything.

EDIT: I figured out the problem. My Firefox reverted back to the previous version. As soon as I updated it again update.js worked and my tabs are back. Thank you for your help.

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