my laptop crashed and when I re-started it my tabs and windows didn't re-open (which they normally always do). They are not showing in recent history/closed tabs.
Acer Aspire 5 laptop. Windows 10. Auto turned off because I unplugged it to move places and it has a dodgy connection so if the screen physically moves a bit (like closing and opening movement) it just auto turns off - the screen accidentally moved a bit! I restarted it but only used it to connect to the scanner and save the scanned doc in Documents - I didn't use the internet so didn't realise the tabs didn't re-open as normal. Next day, I realised the many tabs and a few windows weren't opening in Mozilla Firefox. They were also off in Chrome but I could recover those - and it was just one window and a handful of tabs. I did a restore last session, which was dated as a couple of days previously, but the Firefox windows and tabs were still not there when I restarted. I certainly wasn't asked nor were there any warnings re saving tabs etc Firefox has just done an update (auto). I've looked around but see no solution. I don't have my laptop synced to any other device. I thought I had a back up / remember things for in case of crashes but it seems not. What do I do to recover all the tabs and windows? Thank you.
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Check via [about:profiles] to see if you have alternate profile.
In the window you will also see the path where the Profile is kept, you can go there and manually copy for 'safety'
Then search this site for similar queries
Thank you for that. I have looked and I only have the one original profile - no alternates. I also saw about manually copying but I currently have nothing to save! Although I will ensure it does a copy / save in the future. I've searched through this support forum but currently find nothing similar to my issue. However, I'm also not a tech jargon wizard / techie nerd so don't understand some of it. Any other clues re what to do?