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how can I get all my tabs back in 60.0.1

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I clicked on the macbook time machine Icon and it deleted all my firefox 60.0.1 tabs and I can find out how to restore them. I had a lot of tabs and would like to have them back.

I clicked on the macbook time machine Icon and it deleted all my firefox 60.0.1 tabs and I can find out how to restore them. I had a lot of tabs and would like to have them back.

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I'm not clear on what your Mac did: did it roll back your Firefox data to some earlier date? Is there any way to roll it forward again after doing that?


Could you start by making a backup of your existing session history files? Here's how:

(1) To open your profile folder...

You can open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either

  • "3-bar" menu button > "?" Help > Troubleshooting Information
  • (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information
  • type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter/Return

In the first table on the page, click the "Show in Finder" button.

(2) Copy out session history files

In your profile folder, double-click into the sessionstore-backups folder. Save all files here to a safe location such as your Documents folder.

(3) What files did you find?

The kinds of files you may find among your sessionstore files are:

  • recovery.jsonlz4: the windows and tabs in your currently live Firefox session (or, if Firefox crashed at the last shutdown and is still closed, your last session)
  • recovery.baklz4: a backup copy of recovery.jsonlz4
  • previous.jsonlz4: the windows and tabs in your last Firefox session
  • upgrade.jsonlz4-build_id: the windows and tabs in the Firefox session that was live at the time of your last update
  • various .js files from Firefox 55 or earlier

Could you take a look at what you have and the date/time of the various files to see whether you think any of them would have the missing tabs?

To preview the contents of a file, you can drag and drop it onto this page, then click Scrounge URLs: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html

That tool is on my site, so please let me know if it doesn't work for you.

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Thanks for trying to help me....I guess I'll just use time machine and go back several days and restore my entire system and see if that helps. Take care,