someone closed my tabs and I can't reopen them
I have been having trouble with my internet recently so my provider sent someone out to try to fix it. They needed to use my laptop to run a test and they didn't ask if I needed any of my tabs before they decided to close everything on me. They then proceeded to close and reopen Firefox several times. Not all of the tabs had been opened in the last day so I can't just grab them quickly from my history.
I don't use Windows System Restore so there are no previous sessions to find when pulling the properties of the sessionstore.js file. Is there a way to restore all my tabs since the jerk closed them other than reading every weblink listed in my "This Month" tab of history?
I have Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium.
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If this happened in the last session you use dip firefox in, this article may solve your problem. How do I restore my tabs from last time?
No it doesn't. As I said they opened and closed Firefox several times and when I tried the History option for restoring tabs, on the page you linked in, it only opened everything from today while I was hunting for an answer hoping I wouldn't have to post here :(
Because Firefox has a new "awesome bar" you can also get back your pages (if you remember which they are) by starting to type their names into the address bar. See Address bar autocomplete suggestions in Firefox for more info.
If I'm not mistaken, your Firefox history is sorted by date, right? So, you could just look for history from the day they wiped your tabs. Also, in the future it may help to have the option to automatically restore your tabs from last session.
I'm sorry, but if these don't work, I'm afraid that I can't come up with anything else. Sorry!
I think by default Windows 7 will create restore points when it updates, and perhaps at other intervals, even if you do not instruct it to do so (unless you disabled it). To see whether an old session history file might be available, please try the following:
Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either
- "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
- Help menu > Troubleshooting Information
In the first table on the page, click the "Show Folder" button
Scroll down and find all of the files starting with sessionstore. These typically have .js, .bak and .bak-datetime extensions. Make a copy of all of them in a sae place (e.g., in Documents). The third one could be read by Firefox again later if you give it the .js extension instead, but unless it is from a good date and time, we can come back to that possibility.
To check for previous version availability on the main file, right-click sessionstore.js > Properties > Previous Versions tab. It may take a while for Windows to populate the list.
Anything promising? If there is, exit out of Firefox before restoring.
Whoops, I see you already checked the Previous Versions tab. Strange that there's nothing there.
For the sessionstore.bak-datetime file, if it's potentially useful, try renaming sessionstore.js to sessionstore.old and then renaming the .bak-datetime to sessionstore.js.
There is only one .bak file for sessionstore and it's dated for yesterday :(
As for the "awesome bar" that would work but I had more than a dozen tabs open and can't remember them all or I wouldn't have needed to post here cuz I would have remembered them all :(
If there isn't a previous version of the sessionstore.js file to restore then your only option would be the browsing history. Easiest to access the history if to open the History Manager (Library) and type a colon in the search bar to get all visited pages. You can order the results by by visit count if you make that column visible or possibly by URL (location). Right-click the header bar or use Views > Columns to make additional columns visible.