using, about:sessionrestore does not bring up my valuable session. Will sessionstore.js or other file have my last session data?
Dear FF Community,
My last Mac ff session was loaded with tabs and other windows that i had open as part of the session. Clicking an outside link bringed ff up as its the default browser with it saying, "this is embarrasing, would you like to resore your last session..." I closed it taking no action on the restore prompt( or so do i think) having in mind that next ff load(app start) would bring up my session which did not. "about:sessionrestore" is empty which leads me to believe some file under profiles might give me the data on text.
Could you please inform me on this as i had some data i would like to recover.
Thanks a lot, Pedro
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If you have backups in Time Machine of the file sessionstore.js then you can try to find that valuable session and restore the file.
See:
Cor-el,
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately no time machine. Only when this happens you start doing backups. I tried open file sessionstore.js but did not load the tabs. The text itself contains little links. How to make FF load the file, or am i missing something?
Thanks, Pedro
If you do not have a file sessionstore.js with the tabs of your lost session (also check History > Recently Closed Tabs/Windows) then your tabs are lost.
Session restore works more reliable if you choose Firefox > Preferences > General > Startup: "When Firefox Starts": "Show my windows and tabs from last time" instead of relying on the Save & Quit dialog.
Cor-el,
I double checked and it seems my latest sessionstore.js has newer tabs since then. I will verify the previous sessionstore.js as it could have some info i want, but the data is immense.
"Show my windows and tabs from last time" is a nice tip. Thanks for that.
Pedro