Multiple Failed Attempts to Recover Previous Session (Tabs) After Reinstalling Firefox
My "recovery.jsonlz4" file from a previous install will not reopen my previous session (tabs) after the new installation.
Before deleting my previous installation of Firefox (for a clean install), I did two things: I created a restore point, and I did a backup of my old data.
The data consists of: bookmarks-2024-05-10.json
These folders: C:\Users\[machinename]\AppData\Local C:\Users\[machinename]\AppData\Roaming C:\Computer Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution C:\Program Data\Mozilla-1de4eexxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Within "Roaming" I have Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default-release\sessionstore-backups
In that sessionstore-backup, I have a "recovery.baklz4" (most recent session, I'm guessing) and three others that look like "upgrade.jsonlz4-2024xxxxxxxxxxx
With Firefox closed, I took a copy of "recovery.baklz4" (745 KB) and pasted it into the current sessionstore-backups file, then I changed the file to "recovery.jsonlz4".
I thought that when I reopened Firefox, my previous tabs would appear. They didn't. So, I went to the menu, then to History, and clicked on Recover Previous Session. That didn't do anything either. And it reduced the size of the *.jsonlz4 file from 745 KB to 6 KB.
I'm not sure what I've done wrong. Can you help me out?
Thank you.
Frank