Seneste svar på Recently Closed Windows and Tabs have been erased by "Forget"https://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/12366442018-10-10T03:36:41-07:00Oh, I'm sorry I don't give the necessary attention to your question Sorry!
Try:
Press ALT+S to show2018-10-10T03:36:41-07:00AnnaSycamorehttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1163046<p>Oh, I'm sorry I don't give the necessary attention to your question Sorry!
Try:
Press ALT+S to show the History menu
Click Show all history &gt; Click Import and Backup click Restore and Choose a date.
Hope this help!
An advice
If some data is important to you backup it frequently!
Use alternative programs to store it. If are very sensitive data you can create encrypted folders on your disk or in the cloud.
Actually many applications permit you take encrypted notes. Use them! many of them are free and the source code is publicly available on Github so that many developers can see it and alert you about bugs and fails.
</p>I meant within the Firefox suite, but the comparison helps highlight the differences.
2018-10-10T02:34:47-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1163017<p>I meant within the Firefox suite, but the comparison helps highlight the differences.
</p>wynden said
McCoy,
The item under discussion is the preinstalled "Forget" feature, not the addon 2018-10-10T02:07:37-07:00McCoy-therealhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1163009<p><em>wynden <a href="#answer-1162999" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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McCoy,
The item under discussion is the preinstalled "Forget" feature, not the addon you are referring to.
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<p>I know &nbsp; - &nbsp; I merely wanted to show you what the <br>Panic Button is, since it came up and has nothing to do <br>with the topic of this thread ......
</p><p>(as a reaction to your " there is no <em> panic</em> button ")
</p>McCoy,
The item under discussion is the preinstalled "Forget" feature, not the addon you are referri2018-10-10T01:49:39-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1162999<p>McCoy,
</p><p>The item under discussion is the preinstalled "Forget" feature, not the addon you are referring to.
</p>wynden said
There is no panic button. There is a reverse reload button which blows up your browse2018-10-09T17:45:22-07:00McCoy-therealhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1162907<p><em>wynden <a href="#answer-1162891" rel="nofollow">said</a></em>
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<blockquote>
There is no <em>panic</em> button. There is a reverse reload button which blows up your browser.
</blockquote>
<p>Maybe this will shine a light on what the "Panic Button" is&nbsp;:
</p><p><a href="https://github.com/aecreations/panicbutton" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aecreations/panicbutton</a>
</p><p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panic-button/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panic-button/</a>
</p>Cor-el,
There is no panic button. There is a reverse reload button which blows up your browser.
Goo2018-10-09T15:15:38-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1162891<p>Cor-el,
</p><p>There is no <em>panic</em> button. There is a reverse reload button which blows up your browser.
</p><p>Goodnight.
</p>Just for completeness what 'recent' data is cleared:
itemsToClear = ["cookies", "history", "openWind2018-10-09T14:52:23-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1162886<p>Just for completeness what 'recent' data is cleared:
itemsToClear = ["cookies", "history", "openWindows", "formdata", "sessions", "cache", "downloads", "offlineApps"];
</p><p>Private browsing is about browsing when no one else is around to see what you do and doesn't save session data to the profile folder, so you do not leave traces in the profile folder.
</p><p>The <em>panic</em> button is meant for occasions when you are not really private and where you want to hide the screen from others when you notice others are in your vicinity.
Of course this only works for the computer screen and there can still be server logs.
</p><p>The Forget buton works in normal mode and in Private Browsing mode (in the latter all windows are closed and a new private window is opened).
</p>Cor-el,
Closing all tabs and windows does not imply deleting all session history from the beginning 2018-10-09T13:49:18-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1162878<p>Cor-el,
</p><p>Closing all tabs and windows does not imply deleting all session history from the beginning of time. Firefox typically restores sessions on reopen according to user settings, and maintains a running history for just such an event that they fail to load upon open. With all of this effort to protect user data, I would not have imagined that I was flushing it at a click.
</p><p>If the "Forget" feature was intended as a panic button among the designers, that is abundantly unclear from the user end. It was innocently embedded among the other innocuous applications of the toolbar menu and in no way identified as a "panic" button to be utilized in "extreme" cases. When I read about it during the tour, I came away with the impression that it was a shortcut to accessing the "Clear Recent History" in settings, as I have already described.
</p><p>I have raised this issue #1, in the dashed hope of recovering my eradicated session history and #2, To express my concern that the full impact of the "Forget" feature has been insufficiently clarified for general audiences. Perhaps it should be reserved as an optional add-on for users who are explicitly aware of its true purpose and ramifications, rather than a default feature with which anyone can instantly eradicate their entire session history in a moment of sleepy oversight. Ffs, we already have private browsing for the purposes you imply.
</p><p>In any case, arguing that the app functions perfectly within intended perimeters disregards the fact that it plainly falls afoul of expectations in the hands of the uninformed userbase. Fortunately it was mere bad luck that I elected to exercise that little gem, but I will not be the last person to mistake it and lose a great deal more than anticipated.
</p><p>I believe jscher2000 has summarized the problem perfectly in the post just previous to yours.
</p>You can look at this tool to browse System Restore points and try to locate a sessionstore.jsonlz4 f2018-10-09T09:56:20-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1162844<p>You can look at this tool to browse System Restore points and try to locate a sessionstore.jsonlz4 file.
</p>
<ul><li>System Restore Explorer<br><a href="http://nicbedford.co.uk/software/systemrestoreexplorer/" rel="nofollow">http://nicbedford.co.uk/software/systemrestoreexplorer/</a>
</li></ul>
<p>You can use this tool to check a compressed sessionstore file.
</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html</a>
</li></ul>
<p>You should be cautious with using System Restore because it restores specific files (file extension) and can easily corrupt the Firefox installation folder and your profile folder.
If profiles.ini is restored then you might lose access to your profile folder.
</p>My reply doesn't explicitly mention session history because all current windows are always closed, s2018-10-09T09:51:38-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644?page=2#answer-1162842<p>My reply doesn't explicitly mention session history because all current windows are always closed, so you always lose all session history (i.e. the tab history that is stored as sessionstore data including pinned tabs).
The forget time frame only applies to history and cookies:
</p>
<ul><li>Close <b>all</b> Tabs and Windows
</li><li>Delete <b>Recent</b> Cookies
</li><li>Delete <b>Recent</b> History
</li></ul>
<p>The forget button was labeled as a "panic" button (its ID in the DOM is still #panic-button) on its first implementation and was aimed for cases where you would want to hide what you were doing.
</p><p>You should instead use "Clear Recent History" if you do not want to lose current tabs and windows.
</p>I tried this "forget 5 minutes" thing in a test profile and:
when it closed the most recent tabs i2018-10-09T09:41:37-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162840<p>I tried this "forget 5 minutes" thing in a test profile and:
</p>
<ul><li> when it closed the most recent tabs in the current window, it also closed the tabs that were also open longer than 5 minutes
</li><li> it also removed all the session history files (in the test profile, I had previous.js from an earlier session a few days ago)
</li><li> I could find and re-launch the missing pages from History (Library window), but that is extra work and in a real-life situation, it would not be easy to spot the ones you had kept open among the crowd
</li></ul>
<p>The way this was designed does not make sense for your original purpose of just trimming a couple items from history. Firefox definitely is destroying more data than necessary.
</p><p><em>Edit: Added screenshots</em>
</p>Cor-el, please see my reply to AnnaSycamore, above. Your post is redundant and references "recent" 2018-10-09T09:19:06-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162837<p>Cor-el, please see my reply to AnnaSycamore, above. Your post is redundant and references "recent" history. The issue is that "Forget 5 minutes" failed to remove recent browsing history. Instead it permanently deleted my complete session history which extended far beyond the past 5 minutes.
</p>If you use the Forget button then you close all open windows and create a new window.
You should get2018-10-09T08:51:15-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162831<p>If you use the Forget button then you close all open windows and create a new window.
</p><p>You should get a warning.
</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forget-button-quickly-delete-your-browsing-history" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forget-button-quickly-delete-your-browsing-history</a>
</li></ul>
<pre>Proceeding will:
Close all Tabs and Windows
Delete Recent Cookies
Delete Recent History
Open a new clean Window</pre>Thank you for the positive feedback, and sorry I can't think of anywhere else to look.
2018-10-09T08:02:55-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162824<p>Thank you for the positive feedback, and sorry I can't think of anywhere else to look.
</p>Sadly, no. There are 7 pages devoted to my Amazon Music tab, ~4 to my gmail and the remaining 99 pa2018-10-09T07:34:40-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162820<p>Sadly, no. There are 7 pages devoted to my Amazon Music tab, ~4 to my gmail and the remaining 99 pages all have something to do with my Facebook Messenger tab. Unless you have any other ideas, I'm presuming that I've reached a dead end.
</p><p>I want to thank you, sincerely, for taking the time to help me in troubleshooting this issue. I deeply appreciate it, even though the effort ultimately proved futile. You are a knowledgeable and helpful individual who is easy to follow and understand, and you are a tremendous asset to this community.
</p>Okay, it sounds as though the decompressed data has an inappropriate character at the 386,358th posi2018-10-09T07:13:32-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162810<p>Okay, it sounds as though the decompressed data has an inappropriate character at the 386,358th position in the text. It still seems like that's a lot of characters to only scrounge up two URLs. Either way, if it's not a valid JSON structure, then Firefox won't be able to restore it even if you sneak it into your profile folder in places of a file Firefox is looking for.
</p><p>If you copy/paste the decompressed JSON from the box into a text document or Word document and start searching for <strong>"http</strong> can you find more URLs from your lost tabs?
</p>Hi jscher,
I get an error when I try to save the JSON. Please see attached.
2018-10-09T06:33:33-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162794<p>Hi jscher,
</p><p>I get an error when I try to save the JSON. Please see attached.
</p>Hi wynden, if you save the JSON version of the data from the Scrounger page and open that file in a 2018-10-09T06:21:19-07:00jscher2000https://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162792<p>Hi wynden, if you save the JSON version of the data from the Scrounger page and open that file in a Firefox tab, it should appeared in a structured view where you can expand/close different windows and tabs from the file. Does that show more data than the HTML view? If so, then it sounds like something went wrong with the Scrounger spotting the separations between the tabs. It might be worth trying to restore that file, or mine out more of the URLs.
</p>I have cleared history under Options > Privacy & Security > History many times in the past2018-10-09T06:00:45-07:00wyndenhttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162784<p>I have cleared history under Options &gt; Privacy &amp; Security &gt; History many times in the past without any issue. I mistook this new button to be a shortcut and an improvement since it allowed me to undo only the last 5 minutes. I did not notice in my tired state of mind last night that it would restart the browser with a fresh window, but that is no reason to expect it to have eliminated my entire session from the History menu, as well. I was not desperate for 5 minutes of navigation, I was desperate for several months' worth of tabs.
</p><p>Jscher2000 should by all rights be on the payroll, but you, AnnaSycamore, are a perfect example of why volunteer support runs a risk to the reputation of the company. Your rude and ignorant remarks add nothing of value to the conversation.
</p>The Forget means exactly that Forget All your browsing history from your selected time frame is go2018-10-09T05:45:01-07:00AnnaSycamorehttps://support.mozilla.org/da/questions/1236644#answer-1162779<p>The Forget means exactly that Forget All your browsing history from your selected time frame is gone!!!
You was so desperately for 5 minute of navigation so that you do windows restore? No! This feature affect only programs not documents, nor unsaved work.
You search for your favorite Weather site in your recent history. You don't bookmark it? You don't remember it? Forget not delete your bookmarks. Nor your memory. This seems to me a Joke
But you have a good sense of humor You make me smile&nbsp;:))
</p><pre>Have a good day!
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