Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:06:43
Message-Id: 55E5E925.3050908@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox by "»Q«"
1 »Q« wrote:
2 > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300
3 > Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher
6 >> <newsspam@××××××××××.org> wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:
9 >>>> I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
10 >>>> when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
11 >>>> again next time I start it.
12 >>> [...]
13 >>>> I still believe that at least links for them can be found
14 >>>> somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.
15 >>> Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
16 >>> those should contain the URLs of your tabs.
17 >> Thank you. I have found them in
18 >> ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
19 >>
20 >> More late tabs are gone. :(
21 >>
22 >> Will try to look in other files in the same directory...
23 > Unless there are backups dated after that, probably the only way to
24 > find them is to look through the browser's history. The Session
25 > Manager extension will let you automagically save sessions more often,
26 > hopefully to avoid this annoyance in the future. I haven't tried it,
27 > but I know a few people who rely on it.
28 >
29 > <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/>
30 >
31 >
32 >
33
34
35 I use it here. My only advice, run a stable version of Firefox not the
36 very latest. Either that, or backup your .mozilla directory before
37 starting Firefox after a update, just in case.
38
39 I have had a couple times where the latest Firefox wouldn't like some
40 add ons and it would cause issues that sometimes vary. It can get . . .
41 interesting.
42
43 Just a word of advice. ;-)
44
45 Dale
46
47 :-) :-)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>