[gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

[gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

[gevisz]

I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
again next time I start it.

But yesterday, when I opened Firefox during the system
update (the updated packages were sys-devel/gcc-4.8.5,
sys-devel/gdb-7.9.1, net-libs/gnutls-3.3.17.1, and
media-gfx/gimp-2.8.14-r1), I have found all my tabs
in Firefox to be empty.

I still believe that at least links for them can be found
somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.

Could anybody point me to the needed file more specifically?

Or suggest any other way of recovering links of my old tabs in firefox?

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Peter Weilbacher]

On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:
> I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
> when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
> again next time I start it.
[...]
> I still believe that at least links for them can be found
> somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.

Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
those should contain the URLs of your tabs. (Unless you started
too many times after the error. Then they might have gotten
overwritten.)

Maybe it's just a matter of having started with a different
profile than normal? There were such cases on this list recently.
Try starting with |firefox -P|...

    Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Gevisz]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher <newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:

> On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:
> > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
> > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
> > again next time I start it.
> [...]
> > I still believe that at least links for them can be found
> > somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.
> 
> Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
> those should contain the URLs of your tabs.

Thank you. I have found them in ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930

More late tabs are gone. :(

Will try to look in other files in the same directory...

> (Unless you started too many times after the error.
> Then they might have gotten overwritten.)
> 
> Maybe it's just a matter of having started with a different
> profile than normal? There were such cases on this list recently.

Yes, I have read about that but it did not happen to me that time
because I use -bindist use flag for quite a long time.

> Try starting with |firefox -P|...

Will try it later.

Thank you.

[gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

[»Q«]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300
Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher
> <newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:  
> > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
> > > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
> > > again next time I start it.  
> > [...]  
> > > I still believe that at least links for them can be found
> > > somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.  
> > 
> > Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
> > those should contain the URLs of your tabs.  
> 
> Thank you. I have found them in
> ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
> 
> More late tabs are gone. :(
> 
> Will try to look in other files in the same directory...

Unless there are backups dated after that, probably the only way to
find them is to look through the browser's history.  The Session
Manager extension will let you automagically save sessions more often,
hopefully to avoid this annoyance in the future.  I haven't tried it,
but I know a few people who rely on it.

<https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Dale]

»Q« wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300
> Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher
>> <newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:  
>>>> I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
>>>> when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
>>>> again next time I start it.  
>>> [...]  
>>>> I still believe that at least links for them can be found
>>>> somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.  
>>> Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
>>> those should contain the URLs of your tabs.  
>> Thank you. I have found them in
>> ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
>>
>> More late tabs are gone. :(
>>
>> Will try to look in other files in the same directory...
> Unless there are backups dated after that, probably the only way to
> find them is to look through the browser's history.  The Session
> Manager extension will let you automagically save sessions more often,
> hopefully to avoid this annoyance in the future.  I haven't tried it,
> but I know a few people who rely on it.
>
> <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/>
>
>
>


I use it here.  My only advice, run a stable version of Firefox not the
very latest.  Either that, or backup your .mozilla directory before
starting Firefox after a update, just in case. 

I have had a couple times where the latest Firefox wouldn't like some
add ons and it would cause issues that sometimes vary.  It can get . . .
interesting.

Just a word of advice.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Gevisz]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher <newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:

> On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:
> > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
> > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
> > again next time I start it.
> [...]
> > I still believe that at least links for them can be found
> > somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.
> 
> Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
> those should contain the URLs of your tabs. (Unless you started
> too many times after the error. Then they might have gotten
> overwritten.)
> 
> Maybe it's just a matter of having started with a different
> profile than normal? There were such cases on this list recently.
> Try starting with |firefox -P|...

I have tried this. I have only one profile.
So, it did not help as it is not my case.
But thank you for suggestion.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Gevisz]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 12:23:06 -0500 »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300
> Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher
> > <newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:  
> > > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
> > > > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
> > > > again next time I start it.  
> > > [...]  
> > > > I still believe that at least links for them can be found
> > > > somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.  
> > > 
> > > Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
> > > those should contain the URLs of your tabs.  
> > 
> > Thank you. I have found them in
> > ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
> > 
> > More late tabs are gone. :(
> > 
> > Will try to look in other files in the same directory...
> 
> Unless there are backups dated after that, probably the only way to
> find them is to look through the browser's history.

Thank you for suggestion. Will look into it later.

> The Session Manager extension will let you automagically save sessions more often,
> hopefully to avoid this annoyance in the future.  I haven't tried it,
> but I know a few people who rely on it.
> 
> <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/>
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Gevisz]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:06:29 -0500 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> »Q« wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300
> > Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher
> >> <newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote:  
> >>>> I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open
> >>>> when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them
> >>>> again next time I start it.  
> >>> [...]  
> >>>> I still believe that at least links for them can be found
> >>>> somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory.  
> >>> Search for sessionstore.{json,bak} in ~/.mozilla/firefox. One of
> >>> those should contain the URLs of your tabs.  
> >> Thank you. I have found them in
> >> ~/mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/sessionstore-backups/upgrade.js-20150809112930
> >>
> >> More late tabs are gone. :(
> >>
> >> Will try to look in other files in the same directory...
> > Unless there are backups dated after that, probably the only way to
> > find them is to look through the browser's history.  The Session
> > Manager extension will let you automagically save sessions more often,
> > hopefully to avoid this annoyance in the future.  I haven't tried it,
> > but I know a few people who rely on it.
> >
> > <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/>
> > 
> 
> I use it here.  My only advice, run a stable version of Firefox not the
> very latest.

I stick to the stable version of everything unless something necessary
is not available as a stable version at all. So, my Firefox is "stable".

> Either that, or backup your .mozilla directory before
> starting Firefox after a update, just in case.

Will do it in the future.

F***ing Firefox!
 
> I have had a couple times where the latest Firefox wouldn't like some
> add ons and it would cause issues that sometimes vary.  It can get . . .
> interesting.
> 
> Just a word of advice.  ;-)
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Dale]

Gevisz wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:06:29 -0500 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Either that, or backup your .mozilla directory before
>> starting Firefox after a update, just in case.
> Will do it in the future.
>
> F***ing Firefox!
>


Actually, I think it is some of the plug-ins/add-ons that cause the
problem.  I think Firefox has some changes and the plug-ins/add-ons need
updating before being used.  I have had times where Firefox even
disabled some stuff because it was known not to work correctly.  So,
Firefox generally survives.  Using a stable version gives the person
doing those extras a chance to catch up. 

I might add, going back to a stable version usually returns things to
normal but one can never be to careful. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

[Gevisz]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:09:01 -0500 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gevisz wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:06:29 -0500 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Either that, or backup your .mozilla directory before
> >> starting Firefox after a update, just in case.
> > Will do it in the future.
> >
> > F***ing Firefox!
> >
> 
> 
> Actually, I think it is some of the plug-ins/add-ons that cause the
> problem.  I think Firefox has some changes and the plug-ins/add-ons need
> updating before being used.  I have had times where Firefox even
> disabled some stuff because it was known not to work correctly.  So,
> Firefox generally survives.

I have only two add-ons enabled: FlashGot 1.5.6.12.1-signed and Greasemonkey 3.3,
but FF have not complained about them, just silently opened with all tabs empty.
And it was not just after its update: this happened on August 31 in the evening
and I did updated FF to version 38.2.0 on August 28. I definitely used FF on August 30
and in the morning of August 31 without the issue.

> Using a stable version gives the person doing those extras a chance to catch up. 

I am using only stable version of FF.

> I might add, going back to a stable version usually returns things to
> normal but one can never be to careful. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
>