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When I bring up Firefox, I have it set to restore all previously open tabs, but it didn't. Is there any way to restore the tabs I had open?

When I bring up Firefox, I have it set to restore all previously open tabs, but it didn't. Is there any way to restore the tabs I had open?

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What do you have set here? see screenshot

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That screen looks different from mine.

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Wrong option for history. see screenshot Click settings to see the 2nd screenshot

Modified by jonzn4SUSE

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You want to use Custom setting for history and then click on settings.

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Ah! Okay. It is not checked.

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See screenshot.

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Then it should look like this. see screenshot

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Okay, I did that.

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Open a bunch of tabs, close the browser and reopen it and see what happens.

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Firefox opened the tabs when I restarted it.

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Mark it as resolved and get back to life.  ;-))

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But, my question was: how can I recover the tabs that were open before? Is there any way to retrieve them from history?

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If the history is there, you use the "Recently Closed Tabs" option. see screenshot

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When this problem first occurred, the Recently Closed Tabs option showed no tabs - even though there had been tabs open.

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I just cleared my history and if your menu looked like this then the history was gone. see screenshot

Modified by jonzn4SUSE

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I still have the older history. I just need the tabs that were open that should have reopened. How does Firefox know to reopen tabs? Is there a temporary cache I might access?

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You will normally find these files in the sessionstore-backups folder:

  • previous.jsonlz4 (cleanBackup: copy of sessionstore.jsonlz4 from previous session that was loaded successfully)
  • recovery.jsonlz4 (latest version of sessionstore.jsonlz4 written during runtime)
  • recovery.baklz4 (previous version of sessionstore.jsonlz4 written during runtime)
  • upgrade.jsonlz4-<build_id> (backup created during an upgrade of Firefox)

You can copy a file from the sessionstore-backups folder to the main profile and rename the file to sessionstore.jsonlz4 to replace the current file with Firefox closed.

  • make sure to backup the current sessionstore.jsonlz4

You can look at this tool to inspect a compressed sessionstore file.