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How to access still open Firefox windows in an old laptop I can no longer access in a new laptop?

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Reham
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Hello,

I am sure this question has been asked before but I looked and looked and still can't manage to find an answer. My laptop decided to die on me and I am still figuring out if they I can migrate the hard drive. I went and bought a new one. I had two Firefox windows open with a lot of tabs in them that I would like to restore, and have not succeeded. I was able to restore my Chrome window and tab by going into "History" and choosing other devices. But, I did not find the same capability in FIrefox unfortunately. All it would let me do is view a few random tabs, but not restore my still open sessions in my my other laptop as is.

Is there a way I can restore them keeping in mind that I can't access my old laptop at all anymore so exporting/importing is not an option unless I am missing something?

Thank you for your help.

Reham

Hello, I am sure this question has been asked before but I looked and looked and still can't manage to find an answer. My laptop decided to die on me and I am still figuring out if they I can migrate the hard drive. I went and bought a new one. I had two Firefox windows open with a lot of tabs in them that I would like to restore, and have not succeeded. I was able to restore my Chrome window and tab by going into "History" and choosing other devices. But, I did not find the same capability in FIrefox unfortunately. All it would let me do is view a few random tabs, but not restore my still open sessions in my my other laptop as is. Is there a way I can restore them keeping in mind that I can't access my old laptop at all anymore so exporting/importing is not an option unless I am missing something? Thank you for your help. Reham

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Dropa
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For one thing if you can't access the HDD and copy the data over then there not much that can be done here.

You have to look at these helps.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/966133

If these don't work then your next option is a computer shop in hopes they can restore the system.,

James
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If you can pull the HDD or SSD out of laptop and put it in a enclosure or use a sata to usb adapter then you may be able to mount it on another system to get the information from your Firefox Profile.