I was working away on copying some files, nothing to do with Firefox. Firefox was open, though I hadn't used it in several minutes. Upon returning to Firefox, I noticed t… (read more)
I was working away on copying some files, nothing to do with Firefox. Firefox was open, though I hadn't used it in several minutes. Upon returning to Firefox, I noticed that although my browser had been open, it was not open anymore. All that was open was the download window.
At times in the past, I've accidentally closed the browser window while the download window was still open. I thought maybe this was what had happened this time, even though I absolutely didn't do that. I closed the download window and clicked on the icon on my desktop to restart it.
And that was when I discovered...no more tabs. Not a single one. Just a plain single blank tab.
In searching for an answer, I found this page:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1396868
but in my confusion and horror and anxiety over needing to get the tabs restored, I had missed this part: "Assuming you found the .html file, it should indicate which .jsonlz4 file it was listing out. Is that the file you want to roll back to (the .jsonlz4 file, not the HTML file)?" and I had started to follow the procedure below it, and after renaming the two files as specified, I realized...I don't have a file to restore.
And so now I have nothing. I don't know how to restore my tabs at all. I literally have no access to anything, because all was tied up in those tabs. How do I restore them? I did find another procedure elsewhere that used "History" and "Restore previous session," but the problem with that solution is that in the "History" there's no such option at all. (This is where I found that one.)
https://www.bleepingworld.com/restore-previous-session-firefox/
I'm so afraid to try anything now, I haven't had this problem in years and now I'm totally lost and afraid to mess this up more.
As for the browser I'm writing about, it's the latest Firefox, as I have it set to automatically update. OS is w10.
Also, I only have sync set for passwords. I don't have it set for tabs, for the reason that I use different ones on different devices.
Please, please, help!
Thanks in advance.