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

[Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

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
> 
> :-)  :-) 
>