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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:23:13
Message-Id: 20150901122306.07882a7c@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox by Gevisz
1 On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300
2 Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher
5 > <newsspam@××××××××××.org> wrote:
6 >
7 > > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:
8 > > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
9 > > > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
10 > > > again next time I start it.
11 > > [...]
12 > > > I still believe that at least links for them can be found
13 > > > somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.
14 > >
15 > > Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
16 > > those should contain the URLs of your tabs.
17 >
18 > Thank you. I have found them in
19 > ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
20 >
21 > More late tabs are gone. :(
22 >
23 > Will try to look in other files in the same directory...
24
25 Unless there are backups dated after that, probably the only way to
26 find them is to look through the browser's history. The Session
27 Manager extension will let you automagically save sessions more often,
28 hopefully to avoid this annoyance in the future. I haven't tried it,
29 but I know a few people who rely on it.
30
31 <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/>

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>