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From: Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:20:39
Message-Id: 55e5fa47.113dc20a.8bf9d.ffffa838@mx.google.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox by "»Q«"
1 On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 12:23:06 -0500 »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300
4 > Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher
7 > > <newsspam@××××××××××.org> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:
10 > > > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
11 > > > > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
12 > > > > again next time I start it.
13 > > > [...]
14 > > > > I still believe that at least links for them can be found
15 > > > > somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.
16 > > >
17 > > > Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
18 > > > those should contain the URLs of your tabs.
19 > >
20 > > Thank you. I have found them in
21 > > ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
22 > >
23 > > More late tabs are gone. :(
24 > >
25 > > Will try to look in other files in the same directory...
26 >
27 > Unless there are backups dated after that, probably the only way to
28 > find them is to look through the browser's history.
29
30 Thank you for suggestion. Will look into it later.
31
32 > The Session Manager extension will let you automagically save sessions more often,
33 > hopefully to avoid this annoyance in the future. I haven't tried it,
34 > but I know a few people who rely on it.
35 >
36 > <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/>
37 >
38 >