How to Recover/Restore previous session Tabs in Firefox after crashing or closing

How to Recover/Restore previous session Tabs in Firefox after crashing or closing. How to restore tabs and windows in Firefox. How to restore previous session Firefox browser. Recover Firefox tabs after accidentally closing. How do i restore accidentally closed tabs in Firefox. Firefox restore session from sessionstore-backups.

Once done, you can start your browser. If you want to try different backup files, then you need to repeat the above process for every single try or start and closing of the browser.

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[ElectronicsComputers]

IMPORTANT! If you've have removed all recent backup files from the sessionstore-backups folder, but upon starting the browser, you still see incorrect tabs or none at all, you need to close the browser. Then, remove any newly generated backup files in the sessionstore-backups folder. After that, navigate back to your profile folder (a folder with random letters and numbers) and delete this file: sessionstore.jsonlz4.
Once these steps are completed, you can copy the old backup file into the sessionstore-backups folder and start the browser. If you need to try different backup files, you will need to repeat the above process for each attempt or each time you start and close the browser.

[InvaderZimFreak]

Thank you so much! I panicked when my session wasn't restored the first time, so using the backup as you advised was not an option. Restoring to the previous update has cost me about a week of activity but the majority has been recovered! Thank you again for this tutorial!

[nanothefruit]

YOU ARE A
HOW DID YOU LEARN ALL THIS MAN.

YOU SAVED MY LIFE. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

[vladmunteanu]

YOU SAVED MY LIFE, I LOVE YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! ❤

[killingtramps]

nope. Nor when firefox update deletes the sessions so when you launch a new instance it overwrites

[chuyarts]

Thanks this worked for me, wish I found this earlier because I have already lost many sessions before

[vardellsfolly]

It seems i lost all my tabs. more than 30 of them. Did not work for me.. Firefox keeps updating without any warning..

[Shin_FTW]

The recovery files weren't there for me. When I opened FireFox before, I had the "Restore previous session" option, but when I clicked it, nothing happened, and the option became un-clickable after that.

RIP.

[khayrkuwaare]

You are a gift to humanity thank you so much, this truly helps and is super straight forwards.

[flamingmagmafish]

I need to restore a session beyond my preveous one is that posiblle if not 😥

[DropThatSound]

Thanks, all my tabs back. Stupid me forgot to add the restore previous session when opening option in the settings. Last time this happened, I used a firefox session manager add-on, and it did it in one click. This was much easier to figure out.

[erickvillegas]

I am so grateful for this video. It gave me hope that I would be able to restore my tabs and it worked! Thank you for uploading this.

[opencardyugioh]

It made the restore funtion even faster for me. I had multiple older backup files. Maybe that made it harder.

[CarTa]

You SAVED me. Im so gratful. It actually only restored 2 of my 3 windows but at least it did the 2 windows that were most important. THANK YOU!!!

[pigeonmama]

I'm on mac. Says I don't have an app that can read the data in the folder. :/ Tried to search apps, all unavailable in my country.

[nabuk]

One issue you may want to address in another video... Evidently I lost my tabs (over 40) when Firefox did a update, even though I had automatic updates turned off. Why does Firefox not respect this setting? And even if does an update with our without permission, why does it sometimes delete all tabs? Seems like sloppy programming, and makes me very reluctant to do updates. After all, even though I used your method to get most tabs back, they are a month old (it was the only file with old tabs I could find in my profile folders). Thanks.

[whiiteshirt]

Ok, so I saved a copy of sessionstorebackup to my desktop. I can see the "previous" file from 3:23am this morning - which is the one i want to use to restore my Firefox tabs. But after that, I just don't understand this video. I need a clearer, slow, step by step walk through of how I re-open firefox using that file from 3:23am. At 2:39 in this video how did you run fFrefox to use that particular file? Please explain clearly and slowly.

[dralvarhanso]

Didn't work for me unfortunately, 50-60 tabs lost. This happened one to many times... switching to Chrome.

[johngcp]

I've lost my tabs many times due to weird ff crashes, and this has been the only time I was able to actually recover them without any complications, it was quick and easy.

[abcdef]

Amazing. I've spent 3+ hours trying to read on firefox forums, absolute useless. I tried Firefox sync for the first time to try and transfer over my session, and what happens - it syncs up to the new browser and completely erases the tabs on my old device. You saved me a massive deal of frustration (and likely the smashing of a brand new laptop.)