Did this just happen recently? If so, have you tried to recover the closed windows?īy default, Firefox can re-open up to 3 closed windows from a restored session.įirst check whether either of these are available (not hidden or grayed out): Hi Firefox Clean B, did you want help with this problem? Once you see the text in the box, click the Scrounge URLs button. You can view the contents of a file by dragging and dropping it onto the blank text area of my Scrounger tool: Upgrade.js-build_id: the windows and tabs in the Firefox session that was live at the time of your last update
Previous.js: the windows and tabs in your last Firefox session Recovery.bak: a backup copy of recovery.js Recovery.js: 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) The kinds of files you may find among your sessionstore files are:
If not too much time has passed, we may be able to use them to recover your lost tabs. Save all files here to a safe location, for example, your Documents folder. In your profile folder, scroll down and double-click into the sessionstore-backups folder. That will pop open your system's file browser. In the first table on the page, click the "Open Folder" / "Open Directory" / "Show in Finder" button (varies depending on your OS). Type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information Open your Firefox profile folder using either If it's grayed out, does the menu list any closed windows you can re-open? Each window will have its own list of closed tabs you can re-open. On the History menu, is Restore Previous Session available? If so, try that. Sometimes an older file has what you need. As with all other session history, there are many ways to lose it. Pinned tabs are stored in your session history.