Tabs gone after clearing history and firefox crashes
My Firefox was loading very slowly and Facebook would not load so I decided to clear all the history, which I hadn't done for a while. While this was happening, my Firefox froze so I opened Task Manager and ended it. When I opened Firefox back up, only the home page was there and when I tried going to recently closed tabs or windows, it was grayed out. I had a lot of tabs that I really want to keep. Please help. Thank you in advance.
Plus all the history was gone as well
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Plus all the history was gone as well
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
That session is likely gone if nothing showed under "History > Recently Closed Tabs/Windows". It is best to be patient when Firefox is busy
Assuming you have not closed Firefox again, check in your currently active profile folder for older sessionstore files.
Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button
Copy all files whose names start with sessionstore to a safe location so Firefox won't overwrite them when you restart the browser. Can you find anything from before the forced shutdown?
I am really bad with computers. Could you explain this in a firefox-for-dummies way?
jscher2000 - I am not currently on that computer as I am not home. I will check this later. However, Firefox always reopened all of my tabs. I think it may have something to do with ending the process. I will check what you said later.