From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01381383D3 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66EA7141E3; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A262141A2 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWpGv-0006cc-KP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:23:01 +0200 Received: from 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net ([108.248.189.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:23:01 +0200 Received: from boxcars by 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:23:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 12:23:06 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: <20150901122306.07882a7c@sepulchrave.remarqs> References: <55e55fe0.70bcb40a.ac658.7be0@mx.google.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 6b04c3ec-30be-4d73-9730-095bb3f33bee X-Archives-Hash: 5bf43733be4a0cdb49979687f6ba0d25 On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300 Gevisz wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher > 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.