My restore session tab is greyed out and i can't get my tabs back. HELP!
Okay, so I'm gonna start with this. My Lenovo laptop is only a year old, yet it's pretty corrupted by this program called Royal Raid[another question for another time] but to get to the point. Every time Mozilla has a not responding page, it either closes itself when it's bad or gets back from it. But this time, it was something that I had come across before but can't seem to solve. So see, one of my pages wasn't responding to a script[i'm not a tech guru, i don't know what that is, sorry] so I tried to press the stop script button to get back to my YouTube video. Then Mozilla stopped responding, but the sound from my video kept playing.[ A common problem i have, no biggie, right? Wrong.] I tried closing it. It wouldn't. Then the whole "close it or wait" tab came up and i closed it. But even then, i could still hear the sound from my video on YouTube STILL playing. Like i said, this happened to me before. I muted and waited until it stopped. When it did, i was pressing the Mozilla icon a LOT. [So much that i had tabs come up three separate times!] So then, i waited until all the tabs came, closed every one of them except the first, then waited. The homepage came up. Although i was confused i went to the menu and pressed Reopen closed windows which usually replaced my restore session tab since it never worked anymore, and it always brought back my tabs. Problem solved? Nope. Instead, it opened my OTHER closed tabs that i had closed WHILE trying to get my session back. Please don't tell me I'm screwed because i have stuff for school that i had on that session and i REALLY NEED IT! Please help. [P.S. like the title says my restore session tab has been grayed out. And not just now. I mean for a while]
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VictoryO said
How do i get the URLS?
I meant this list:
Okay, thanks for the tip. It's extracted the session files, but what now? It shows Session Contents, Window 1, 2, and 3.
Doesn't the page list the URLs (addresses) for each tab in each of those windows?
Are those the addresses you've been looking for? If they are not the right addresses, try Method #2 with a different old session file.
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VictoryO said
Same thing happened. It said there was an error in the structure of the session history data.
Did you install the blue button to your Bookmarks menu or Bookmarks toolbar using one of these two methods:
- right-click the button > Bookmark This Link
- drag the button and drop it on the toolbar/menu where you want it
What you want to do is add that button as a bookmark, then display your session history file in a tab, then click the button to extract data from the displayed file. The button only works in that context.
Okay, thanks for the tip. It's extracted the session files, but what now? It shows Session Contents, Window 1, 2, and 3.
Once you have the list, you can use the links to open the URLs, and/or you can copy/paste the whole list somewhere for safekeeping.
How do i get the URLS?
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VictoryO said
How do i get the URLS?
I meant this list:
Okay, thanks for the tip. It's extracted the session files, but what now? It shows Session Contents, Window 1, 2, and 3.
Doesn't the page list the URLs (addresses) for each tab in each of those windows?
Are those the addresses you've been looking for? If they are not the right addresses, try Method #2 with a different old session file.
No, in the first one it didn't but the other I tried did. Now I'll try and see if it works.
Thanks so much jscher2000 for dealing with me and heling me get my tabs back. Really, i don't know what i would have done. Once again, thanks so much. When i have another question, i'll come straight to you.
VictoryO said
When i have another question, i'll come straight to you.
Hopefully it's a simpler and less stressful question next time. Either way, I encourage using the forum to take advantage of volunteers in different time zones with different schedules.