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Krishan Mittal
Krishan Mittal

I have enabled the option to open the previous windows and tabs. I had one window that I always closed last as it had a lot of groups that are important for my work, so it used to open every time I started Firefox. Sometimes, even if I closed the window by mistake without closing other windows, I was able to get it back by pressing ctrl+shift+n.

But yesterday, I might have closed it by mistake and when I pressed ctrl+shift+n , it didn't come back. I wasn't able to access my window and now it's all gone. I don't see anything in recently closed windows in history. 

I need those tabs back as they are very important for my work. they were a lot of tabs. I had many groups but now all are gone. I tried by using the previous.jsonlz4 in the sessionstore-backup by renaming it in the default-release profile as sesstionstore.jsonlz4 but still wasn't able to access my window.

I didn't clear my history as the tabs opened in the window still show up in the history.

Kindly help as soon as possible

I have enabled the option to open the previous windows and tabs. I had one window that I always closed last as it had a lot of groups that are important for my work, so it used to open every time I started Firefox. Sometimes, even if I closed the window by mistake without closing other windows, I was able to get it back by pressing ctrl+shift+n. But yesterday, I might have closed it by mistake and when I pressed ctrl+shift+n , it didn't come back. I wasn't able to access my window and now it's all gone. I don't see anything in recently closed windows in history. I need those tabs back as they are very important for my work. they were a lot of tabs. I had many groups but now all are gone. I tried by using the previous.jsonlz4 in the sessionstore-backup by renaming it in the default-release profile as sesstionstore.jsonlz4 but still wasn't able to access my window. I didn't clear my history as the tabs opened in the window still show up in the history. Kindly help as soon as possible

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From the files in your screenshot. With Firefox closed, you will see a file called sessionstore.jsonlz4 in your profile folder. This is your current session that I guess is not the one you want. Just rename it to something like old_sessionstore.jsonlz4_old. Then from your sessionstore-backups folder make a copy of one of the files from the screenshot I attached. Then rename that file sessionstore.jsonlz4 and the move it into your profile folder. Then open Firefox and it should be the session from the date of 1 of those 3 files that I show from your screenshot. MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU!  ;-))

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cdnred
cdnred

I've used this now for about a week and I'm always getting the previous sessions restored. It's been working great for me now..

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