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From: Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:21:03
Message-Id: 55e55fe0.70bcb40a.ac658.7be0@mx.google.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox by Peter Weilbacher
1 On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher <newsspam@××××××××××.org> wrote:
2
3 > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:
4 > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
5 > > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
6 > > again next time I start it.
7 > [...]
8 > > I still believe that at least links for them can be found
9 > > somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.
10 >
11 > Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
12 > those should contain the URLs of your tabs.
13
14 Thank you. I have found them in ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
15
16 More late tabs are gone. :(
17
18 Will try to look in other files in the same directory...
19
20 > (Unless you started too many times after the error.
21 > Then they might have gotten overwritten.)
22 >
23 > Maybe it's just a matter of having started with a different
24 > profile than normal? There were such cases on this list recently.
25
26 Yes, I have read about that but it did not happen to me that time
27 because I use -bindist use flag for quite a long time.
28
29 > Try starting with |firefox -P|...
30
31 Will try it later.
32
33 Thank you.

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