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

[Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

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/>
> 
>