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FireFox wont restore sessions from sessionrestore.js, only .sonlz4. Help

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Dafox
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today on July 12th I opened FireFox and it erased my entire previous browsing session, why?

I will never know, however i had a backup from July 1st.

Yay, right? I could just restore the July 1st one right?

Well I followed the available instructions and deleted all the .jsonlz4 files, renamed sessionstore.jsonlz4 to sessionstore.old and renamed upgrade.js-20170628075643 to sessionstore.js as most instructions I found told me to.

Then I opened up FireFox but to my dismay it didn't restore my previous browsing session that from the new sessionstore.js file.

It created a new sessionstore.jsonlz4 file and completely ignored the .js sessionstore file?!

I so thought "Maybe I should just replace .js to .jsonlz4 and everything will work out fine right?" Wrong, when I changed it from sessionstore.js to sessionstore.jsonlz4 it did load some of my previous browsing history but ignored most of it!?

Whats going on!!!!

today on July 12th I opened FireFox and it erased my entire previous browsing session, why? I will never know, however i had a backup from July 1st. Yay, right? I could just restore the July 1st one right? Well I followed the available instructions and deleted all the .jsonlz4 files, renamed sessionstore.jsonlz4 to sessionstore.old and renamed upgrade.js-20170628075643 to sessionstore.js as most instructions I found told me to. Then I opened up FireFox but to my dismay it didn't restore my previous browsing session that from the new sessionstore.js file. It created a new sessionstore.jsonlz4 file and completely ignored the .js sessionstore file?! I so thought "Maybe I should just replace .js to .jsonlz4 and everything will work out fine right?" Wrong, when I changed it from sessionstore.js to sessionstore.jsonlz4 it did load some of my previous browsing history but ignored most of it!? Whats going on!!!!

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Shadow110
Shadow110
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It was corrupted. try running a copy through this : https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger_json.html

Look on Your Desktop for a Folder called OldFireoxProfile Let us know.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi Dafox, sessionstore.js was obsoleted with Firefox 56 so I don't know why you have one from July 1st. Unless it's July 1, 2017.

Anyway, I think the larger issue is that Firefox 56-61 are likely to exhaust the other available files first, so you need to hide them. Could you take a look at my lengthy reply in this thread:

All tabs lost after upgrade from FF 56 to FF 61, I have sessionstore.js, it is ignored.

cor-el
cor-el
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Note that you need to place the renamed sessionstore.js in the main profile folder.

Did you rename the sessionstore-backups folder as well?

That upgrade.js file is from last year June (20170628) and may not be compatible with current releases.

Don't you have a more recent upgrade file?