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Hi my Nightly just deleted all my tabs, and it doesn't allow me on the "recently closed tabs" section. New windows dont allow me to add/delete new tabs. Help!!!

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I need help in understanding why Nightly deleted all my tabs, and how I was not able to bring them back through the “Recently Closed Tabs” Section. Furthermore, whenever I open up nightly now, it always brings up two tabs none of them being the restore previous session tabs that one would expect. I cannot close the tabs, nor open new ones. Please Help!!

I need help in understanding why Nightly deleted all my tabs, and how I was not able to bring them back through the “Recently Closed Tabs” Section. Furthermore, whenever I open up nightly now, it always brings up two tabs none of them being the restore previous session tabs that one would expect. I cannot close the tabs, nor open new ones. Please Help!!

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This could be caused by the landing of these bug fixes that caused some extensions to get broken.

  • Bug 866537 - Several extensions broke (in a way that breaks the browser) after bug 697319
  • Bug 697319 - First browser should be dynamically created to allow honoring of browser.tabs.remote pref

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You can use this to start Firefox in Safe Mode and disable all extensions:

See also: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2697449

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Thanks for the link however I'm unsure how to get back my old session

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As when I restart with add ons disabled I cant bring my old session back up

any ideas on how I can bring my old session back up ?

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Did you keep a copy of the sessionstore.js file?

If you start Firefox more than once then you lose the version that had session data of those tabs.

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Yes the files are still there however I cant access it in the add ons disabled mode

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You need to disable (tab) extensions that watch an onload event.
Then you should be able to start Firefox in normal mode and your session should be restored.

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How do I disable tab extensions Ive googled it and no luck

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any further instructions on how to do this would be most appreciated

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If it works in normal mode with all extensions (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) disabled then try to find which extension is causing it by enabling one extension at a time until the problem reappears.

Close and restart Firefox after each change via "Firefox > Exit" (Windows: Firefox/File > Exit; Mac: "Firefox > Quit Firefox"; Linux: "Firefox/File > Quit")