Restoring old tabs via a Carbonite sessionstore.js file
I had a Firefox crash this morning that, upon restart of Firefox, did not let me restore my previous tabs. I tried to restore (using the Windows 7 restore previous version function) a previous session from yesterday, but I don't think I went through the steps correctly. Then I realized I have a backup version from Carbonite available.
I downloaded it to my desktop. Would someone mind walking me through the steps of correctly restoring the file?
Thanks very much.
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Normally, when Firefox starts up it will look for sessionstore.js and back it up to sessionstore.bak.
If Firefox is set to automatically restore your previous session windows and tabs, it will use those contents to load your previous session history.
Alternately, you can use History > Restore Previous Session to restore them.
Before substituting your backup sessionstore.js file for the current one, make sure Firefox has fully exited out.
As for where to copy it, you can learn your current profile folder using the methods in this support article: Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data.
Any luck?
I have found a new way to loose tabs in Firefox.
CCleaner has a session tick box which is ticked by default.
I didn't notice this and managed to delete all my session tabs.
I can restore my sessionstore.js file from a Windows 7 backup but it won't let me restore this file to it's original location.
Do I nee to restore both sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak from my last Windows 7 backup?
Any body else with this problem?
Hi Crumbleey, Firefox will only look for sessionstore.js in the same location. Make sure Firefox is not running when you do the restore, or you can copy the file in by hand from wherever the restore is willing to place it.
Thank you jscher200,
So only the sessionstore.js file is needed to be restored to give the previous tabs/sessions?
I tried restoring the file to the correct folder with Firefox closed down but still Microsoft restore would not put it in the original folder.
C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gtbsxl2y.default
It could restore it to my documents folder though.
If you have collected a large number of tabs over the years Ccleaner is a quick way to delete them.
Thanks for your help.
Thank you jscher200.
Closed Firefox.
Restored sessionstore.js to my doccuments with Microsoft restore.
Renamed sessionstore.js in C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gtbsxl2y.default\ to oldsessionstore.js
Copied sessionstore.js in my doccuments to sessionstore.js in C:\Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gtbsxl2y.default\
Opened Firefox.
And all my old sessions/tabs were there.
Thank you again for your help.