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How does Firefox know what tabs/windows you had open when you click "restore session"? If it is a temp file or something, where is it kept?

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My computer crashed and will not reboot (I think it is because of a improper repair of WinXP after a virus got passed my security). Before it crashed, I had easily 20 tabs open in Firefox, some of them being very important, but I can't remember what some of them were called or how I found them. I was wondering how Firefox knows what tabs/windows to open when you click "Restore Session," and if it is store in a file of sorts so that I could boot in Linux, get the file, and somehow use it after I install my newly purchase Win7. It's not a Firefox problem, but I didn't know where better to ask this question.

My computer crashed and will not reboot (I think it is because of a improper repair of WinXP after a virus got passed my security). Before it crashed, I had easily 20 tabs open in Firefox, some of them being very important, but I can't remember what some of them were called or how I found them. I was wondering how Firefox knows what tabs/windows to open when you click "Restore Session," and if it is store in a file of sorts so that I could boot in Linux, get the file, and somehow use it after I install my newly purchase Win7. It's not a Firefox problem, but I didn't know where better to ask this question.

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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1201215&start=0 I think the guy in the second post on this page answered my question. If any of you were wondering...

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Thank you (: