session restore gives old tabs
For some reason session restore wont restore my sessions properly. It restores sessions 1-2 hours before I closed my session, which is very annoying:S
I read and tried this :https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1197599 didn't do anything for me, though my problem sounds exactly the same.
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The link you posted was about the window positions.
You may have corrupt sessionstore [v56] sessionstore.jsonlz4 file(s). Delete all sessionstore* files and the sessionstore-backups folder.
Type about:support<enter> in the address bar.
Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To its right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.
Locate the above file. Then rename or delete it. Restart Firefox.
Don't delete the files if you need to rescue any data from
them, just move them out of the profile folder to some
location where Firefox doesn't look for them. You can
try to read out their contents using this tool:
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html
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The link you posted was about the window positions.
You may have corrupt sessionstore [v56] sessionstore.jsonlz4 file(s). Delete all sessionstore* files and the sessionstore-backups folder.
Type about:support<enter> in the address bar.
Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To its right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.
Locate the above file. Then rename or delete it. Restart Firefox.
Don't delete the files if you need to rescue any data from
them, just move them out of the profile folder to some
location where Firefox doesn't look for them. You can
try to read out their contents using this tool:
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html
I wouldn't delete your session history files if you want to restore any of them. You could move them to a secure location for later reference.
There was a bug in Firefox 56-57 where the background process to update the session history file would stop working and Firefox wasn't able to restart it. That should be fixed in Firefox 58, but sometimes a fix isn't complete.
Can you check whether your session history is being updated in real time? by default, Firefox updates the session history file with changes within 15 seconds. You can check the file in Windows Explorer as follows:
You can open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either
- "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information
- (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information
- type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter
In the first table on the page, click the "Open Folder" (or "Show in Finder") button.
Double-click into the sessionstore-backups folder. The kinds of files you may find among your sessionstore files are:
- recovery.jsonlz4: the windows and tabs in your currently live Firefox session (or, if Firefox crashed at the last shutdown and is still closed, your last session)
- recovery.baklz4: a backup copy of recovery.jsonlz4
- previous.jsonlz4: the windows and tabs in your last Firefox session
- upgrade.jsonlz4-build_id: the windows and tabs in the Firefox session that was live at the time of your last update
Could you take a look at the date/time stamps and see whether the files seem current. Also, I suggest backing up recovery.jsonlz4 just before shutdown and then you can later compare with what Firefox restores after the next startup, which will become the new recovery.jsonlz4.
Removing the sessionstore-backups seems to have fixed it:)