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

[Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

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.