Restore previous session firefox manually

#RESTORE PREVIOUS SESSION FIREFOX MANUALLY WINDOWS#

I have not been able to figure out why or discern any sort of pattern or cause, but it always seems to be the case when you need it the most. Sometimes, Chrome simply loses the previous session and tabs and the reopen-tab function just wonвЂ™t work. However, even if you wait a while, it will not always restore the previous session. If you wait a few moments and repeat, it should turn black (enabled) and then you can use it. This can take a few moments and you can see it by right-clicking the tab-bar and observing that the Reopen closed tab context-menu entry is grayed/disabled for a while. You have to wait until Chrome reads the user files and parses them. First of all, it wonвЂ™t work immediately after launching Chrome. Now before you go and run Chrome, I have to warn you that it does not always work. In newer versions (IвЂ™m not sure exactly when, but for numerous versions now), it works without having to open a tab first.) Whenever I close Chrome accidentally and need to recover my tabs, I first have to open a tab (pressing Ctrl+ T for the New Tab Page is easiest) before pressing Ctrl+ в‡§ Shift+ T to get the previous tab(s) back. I still use Chromium 11 on my XP system and am always baffled by this strange behavior. (In older versions, for some reason, it would only work if you first created a new tab. And if you had multiple tabs open before closing it, then it should re-open all of them. Yes, to some degree, however you have the combo wrong itвЂ™s Ctrl+ в‡§ Shift+ T.

That way, you can always copy them back if something goes wrong.

#RESTORE PREVIOUS SESSION FIREFOX MANUALLY WINDOWS#

Likewise, if Chrome hangs and you close all windows but there remains a copy of chrome.exe running, then that session is still active until you kill it.)Д¬opy these four files somewhere so that you can work without losing anything. If you close all tabs in a window, but have another Chrome window with a tab open, then that session is still active, so starting Chrome again will not be a new session. That is, if you open Chrome when there are absolutely no instances of chrome.exe running (check the Task Manager to be sure), then you are starting a session. (Note that the term вЂњsessionвЂќ here implies a round of starting Chrome from scratch.

Last Tabs (same as Current Tabs, but for the previous session).

Last Session (same as Current Session, but for the previous session).

Current Tabs (contains a list of URLs for the tabs in the current session).

Current Session (contains the data from forms in the pages in the current session).

Yes, they are the following four files in your User Data Directory: What can I do at this point? Is there a file or something I need to copy or rename? ItвЂ™s not pleasant with Chrome either, but IвЂ™ll walk you through the process (IвЂ™ve had to do it far too many times). I know from past experience with Firefox that restoring tabs and browser sessions can be a tricky business.

You are correct, that running Chrome will likely wipe them out soon after because it is designed to keep only one set of backups in addition to the current, working copy, so when you start a new instance, it will shift everything back and overwrite the previous one. I fear that they will be permanently lost (overwritten files) if I do that. I don't want to risk anything by starting Chrome now before asking for help. Now all the tabs I had open are presumably gone. YouвЂ™ll have to tray out some of the extensions that have been written to deal with this and pick one that suits you (unfortunately, due to ChromeвЂ™s design, the extensions will need to keep an extra couple of processes running to work). Yes, unfortunately the devs have chosen not to build in a prompt to prevent this.

Restore previous session firefox manually