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Firefox Restore Previous Session function Not Working

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Hi, hope you are doing well, this is a bit of a complaint and a 'please fix these things' as well as a question.

2 main things: "Restore Previous Session" does not seem to be working at all, 'Manage History' window is not nearly as fleshed out as it needs to, as manually combing through my search history to find the lost tabs looks like a monumental task fit for Sisyphus.

I was away from my computer and hadn't turned it on for about a week, I come back to it and it appears to only have 2 tabs open... out of the 45-ish I previously had open. The 'Restore Previous Session' tool was not able to be used mysteriously.

I spend a few hours trying to find a way to get my tabs back, to no success. It was late so I didn't comb my history for the tabs. I do however, transfer all the tabs I had open on my phone to my PC. about 60-ish tabs (I have a problem yes).

Then today my house has a power outage, shutting off my PC and when i turn it on i see... no 'restore previous session' button to use. After having a cry, I combed my search history and restored all of yesterday's tabs, which was thankfully easy to do because i only had to comb through yesterday's search history. The "Restore Previous Session" tool seems broken to me.

But to comb through all my history for my previous session's tabs, I have to use the 'Manage History' window. I have some problems with this. - the history list Columns and Sorting are too basic i.e. It has no "when tab closed" tag, so i can't clearly see all the tabs that closed at once. - No way to separate which device's search history, my phone's history is mixed in with my PC's, making it super messy. - I can't highlight and open multiple tabs at once, making reopening dozens of tabs very tedious.

- Firefox can 'sync' my tabs and history, but i would like to be able to have both devices have the EXACT same tabs open, like 2 devices accessing the same browser terminal. If it were this way, my tabs would never be out of my sight and both devices would have to be messed with to really lose the session. Can this be done?

Something has clearly gone wrong for my computer to be shut down and for the 'Restore previous Session' button not be available. I am a uni student and i am worried i may lose dozens of important research tabs at once - multiple times - because of what looks like a technical issue with no elegant work around.

Please help me out. At the very least please tell me how I can see WHEN my tabs closed so I can IDENTIFY them at an easy glance.

Sorry for the long note, losing around 50 tabs, twice, shook me to my core.

Hi, hope you are doing well, this is a bit of a complaint and a 'please fix these things' as well as a question. 2 main things: "Restore Previous Session" does not seem to be working at all, 'Manage History' window is not nearly as fleshed out as it needs to, as manually combing through my search history to find the lost tabs looks like a monumental task fit for Sisyphus. --------------------------------- I was away from my computer and hadn't turned it on for about a week, I come back to it and it appears to only have 2 tabs open... out of the 45-ish I previously had open. The 'Restore Previous Session' tool was not able to be used mysteriously. I spend a few hours trying to find a way to get my tabs back, to no success. It was late so I didn't comb my history for the tabs. I do however, transfer all the tabs I had open on my phone to my PC. about 60-ish tabs (I have a problem yes). Then today my house has a power outage, shutting off my PC and when i turn it on i see... no 'restore previous session' button to use. After having a cry, I combed my search history and restored all of yesterday's tabs, which was thankfully easy to do because i only had to comb through yesterday's search history. The "Restore Previous Session" tool seems broken to me. But to comb through all my history for my previous session's tabs, I have to use the 'Manage History' window. I have some problems with this. - the history list Columns and Sorting are too basic i.e. It has no "when tab closed" tag, so i can't clearly see all the tabs that closed at once. - No way to separate which device's search history, my phone's history is mixed in with my PC's, making it super messy. - I can't highlight and open multiple tabs at once, making reopening dozens of tabs very tedious. - Firefox can 'sync' my tabs and history, but i would like to be able to have both devices have the EXACT same tabs open, like 2 devices accessing the same browser terminal. If it were this way, my tabs would never be out of my sight and both devices would have to be messed with to really lose the session. Can this be done? Something has clearly gone wrong for my computer to be shut down and for the 'Restore previous Session' button not be available. I am a uni student and i am worried i may lose dozens of important research tabs at once - multiple times - because of what looks like a technical issue with no elegant work around. Please help me out. At the very least please tell me how I can see WHEN my tabs closed so I can IDENTIFY them at an easy glance. Sorry for the long note, losing around 50 tabs, twice, shook me to my core.