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Restore Session displays empty pane without windows

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carava23
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Hi,

So I had a numerous windows and tabs open when Firefox crashed. Instead of displaying the Restore Session window at restart with the windows/tabs displayed, the pane is now empty. To be clear, I don't mean that when I restore them, they come up empty; I mean they don't even display in the RS pane. Unfortunately my drive for Time Machine wasn't connected to save them there.

I've rarely had success with the sessionstore.bak option. At this time, I did save the .bak file, but it appears too small to contain all the lost windows, which seems odd - usually it's the largest one. The largest file in the Firefox folder is places.sqlite (don't know what that is). It's the only one big enough (I think) to contain them.

If there's a means to manipulate these to display those windows again, I'd appreciate knowing. I'm not adept at this, so very clear instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, So I had a numerous windows and tabs open when Firefox crashed. Instead of displaying the Restore Session window at restart with the windows/tabs displayed, the pane is now empty. To be clear, I don't mean that when I restore them, they come up empty; I mean they don't even display in the RS pane. Unfortunately my drive for Time Machine wasn't connected to save them there. I've rarely had success with the sessionstore.bak option. At this time, I did save the .bak file, but it appears too small to contain all the lost windows, which seems odd - usually it's the largest one. The largest file in the Firefox folder is places.sqlite (don't know what that is). It's the only one big enough (I think) to contain them. If there's a means to manipulate these to display those windows again, I'd appreciate knowing. I'm not adept at this, so very clear instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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carava23
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Also, Firefox hasn't been saving my browsing history lately, so I can't find the windows that way. I don't know if places.sqlite contains that history (and not the windows), and is corrupted. If anyone knows how I can get it to save my history that would be great too.

cor-el
cor-el
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Current Firefox versions no longer use the sessionstore.bak file, but use the sessionstore-backups folder.

You can check the sessionstore-backups folder in the Firefox Profile Folder to see if there is a file that has session data from a previous Firefox session.

previous.js (cleanBackup: copy of sessionstore.js from previous session that was loaded successfully) recovery.js (latest version of the sessionstore written during runtime) recovery.bak (previous version of the sessionstore written during runtime) upgrade.js-<build_id> (backup created during an upgrade of Firefox)