How to Recover/Restore previous session Tabs in Firefox after crashing or closing
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- 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.
In case if you removed all recent backup files from the sessionstore-backups folder but when you start the browser you still see the wrong tabs or no tabs at all, then you need to close the browser, then remove freshly appeared backup files in the sessionstore-backups folder, after that go to one step back to your profile folder and remove these two files: sessionstore.jsonlz4, sessionCheckpoints.json
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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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.
Yes . thanks a lot . Without this update , I couldn't recover
Thank you, this has saved my bacon today
I did it, but the "previous" which should have all the tabs on, is just not loaded and instead of it new recovery files are made...
This worked yeyyyy…thnx
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!
Happy to help!
YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!!!
HOW DID YOU LEARN ALL THIS MAN.
YOU SAVED MY LIFE. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
I'm glad I could help you!
YOU SAVED MY LIFE, I LOVE YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! ❤
I'm happy to help!
Thank you so much, I thought I lost all my tabs!!! This was incredibly straight forward and easy to follow.
I'm glad I could help you!
@@ElectronicsComputers i didnt work for me, it just keeps popping up trouble shooting page, where do i go from here?
you just saved the rest of my week, thankfully there was a very recent upgrade file in the folder since I had already tried stuff out and the recovery ones were useless, liked and subscribed ✌
I'm happy to help and thank you for your support!
Thanks this worked for me, wish I found this earlier because I have already lost many sessions before
Happy to help!
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.
You're welcome!
You are a gift to humanity thank you so much, this truly helps and is super straight forwards.
I'm glad I could help you!
he is a gift (in plain english) all right, but what about all those savvy articles spread by Guggle-eyed fake-makers & do-not-hate-us?... they are ein GIFT (in German it means POISON) - they are toxic ...
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!!!
Good job! I'm happy to help.
You are a wonderful person friend. I lost all hopes of recovering my Tabs. I tried every possible thing. BUT your suggestion worked perfectly. It's simple and to the point. All tabs got restored...
#Note: I restored all the tabs from "Old Firebox Data" Session Files into the "New Firefox" after many days of updating and refreshing...Recently the "New Firefox" also got crashed and during troubleshooting, I lost the latest session with Tabs as well. Then I tried your method with "Old Firefox Data" Session Files and as a surprise, all the tabs got restored from the "Old Firefox Data." It all worked 101%
Thanks Again, God Bless!!! :)
Thank you for letting me know, I'm glad I could help you in that way.
Thank you so much! Thought my prior history and all tabs were gone. This worked and it was easy to follow!!
I'm happy to help!
fuck it didnt work for me since the backup files were already the empty tabs session. Why the hell is firefox so consistently bad at remembering tabs. This happens out of the blue
So I have a back up of my sasions but when I go in the Folder it and put my back up in there it just replaices it with new ones
nope. Nor when firefox update deletes the sessions so when you launch a new instance it overwrites
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.
Next time that happens, try clicking on History from the top left drop down and then hover your mouse over Recently Closed Windows and click on Reopen All Windows.
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.
I'm glad I could help you!
Thank you, bro! You saved my life! :D
This technique also works with recovering "recently closed windows" error.
Glad it helped
It wasn't exactly like my current version of Firefox, but I was able to extrapolate and made it work, thank you so much for taking the time to make this video!
Happy to help!
How do do this on brave browser?
Your voice is so soothing. Do you offer bedtime story narratives?
It made the restore funtion even faster for me. I had multiple older backup files. Maybe that made it harder.
You Just Saved a life man!... I owe you a Millions. God bless you my Angel...
I'm happy to help!
It seems i lost all my tabs. more than 30 of them. Did not work for me.. Firefox keeps updating without any warning..
i tried deleting files than starting firefox but it doesn't have the tabs already open like it does for you - i'm trying to recover an updated file
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.)
Glad it helped
Good to know thanks. that happened to me several times too
Know you know how to fix it
press ctrl+shft+n
it opens last window :D
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.
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.
Happy to help!
Firefox is simply a very very bad browser. E.g. none of this needs to be done in Opera since nothing ever gets lost. Firefox should simply copy Opera in the way that it works and videos like this won't be necessary. Opera loses NOTHING even after a crash. Firefox is manual and in most cases your tabs are lost for ever after you restart it if you forget to "restore sessions" or worse you start Firefox with a new search. Firefox ruins your day completely in that regard. No going back. End of story.
Opera is automatic and nothing is ever lost. All tabs return immediately without you having to do a thing.
*Firefox is simply a really bad browser in that regard.*
You are a hero, you are a legend, I can believe I was lucky enough to find you and this video, thank you so much
Glad I could help
I need to restore a session beyond my preveous one is that posiblle if not 😥
Didn't work for me unfortunately, 50-60 tabs lost. This happened one to many times... switching to Chrome.
yeah, that happens
"TabSaver" in Chrome works nicely. You can save and restore several windows (full with tabs) in several files!
Lots of people don't trust Chrome myself including. There's a bunch of videos revealing how chrome spying on you. It listens your microphone for ads targeting and who knows for what else. There's also a bunch of weird constantly running processes even when you browser is closed etc. I don't recommend using Crome at all
Wish I could like this a 100 times!
I'm happy to help!
Man, I thought I found the golden key to retrieving my lost tabs - but alas everything I tried gives me the same result. I followed all your steps, and saw below about going one step back and deleting the "Sessions" files as well. I even restarted my computer. It keeps bringing me right back to the main firefox page. So very frustrating. Firefox initially gave me "out of date" when i opened it and I hit "x" by accident, I just wasn't thinking. I meant to of course hit restore previous history. It restarted firefox and everything was gone, with no restore option. I searched and tried a few things including recuva. I have 1 previous, 2 recovery diles that are no good based on the time on them. I have 3 upgrade, where one is from earlier today, one a week ago, and one almost a month ago. Any of them would be great. The last 2 have 1,500 KB each, and the one from earlier today has 18 KB. None of them worked, keeps bringing me right back to the main page, no other tabs or history. Anything more I can try before I scream?
Go to the tools menu and select settings. Make sure that option "Open previous windows and tabs" is enabled. Then go to your Firefox accounts folder and remove "sessionCheckpoints.json" file. Then copy your backup file to the sessionstore-backups folder and finally start your browser.
Hello, in 2021 if you followed the video and couldn't get your tabs back, you need to go into the firefox options and uncheck restore previous tabs on start-up. after that it should work.
Can confirm, did everything what's on video but didn't worked. I was wondering if this option maybe had something to do with but didn't bothered to actually check it. Thanks dude!
Mine was unchecked by default and it still isn't working. :(
@@BurnEdOutOne Then it's likely another issue. Did you try all session backups? Did you make sure you ended firefox in task manager?
@@twelve535 I feel stupid asking this question but I have a mac....does this only work with windows?
@@holly-zp2pr idk, it should...
Thanks, buddy it helped me so well. ton of love
Glad to hear it!
You went a little too fast and seemed to skip over creating a back-up of the profile files before deleting all but the one you think best. Also, my situation was more complicated, as it contained 3 different profile folders each with multiple files. Also, all were dated today (when an update erased all my tabs) except for one dated a month ago (but which had most of my tabs). So I put that file and only that file in each of the three folders (not knowing which Firefox would use), and volia' --it worked. Tabs back, at least those from a month ago. Why it did not have any backups for days between those is baffling. Anyway, thanks!
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.
Simply remove all recent backup files from 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.
@@ElectronicsComputers Thank you very much for replying. Good news: IT WORKED! This is perhaps the only video on the internet that explains how to do this, so I'm very grateful.
It's a miracle that I did it because where you say (in your comments to me) "navigate back to your profile folder (a folder with random letters and numbers) and delete this file: sessionstore.jsonlz4", I couldn't see that file. But it seems that deleting all the recovery files in my current sessionstore and then pasting in my old file did the trick.
Because I'm a "Dummy", there was another thing that I didn't understand at first. At 1:36 I thought you were immediately using the sessionstore BACKUP folder, but you weren't; you were in the original/current sessionstore. If I need to use your video again, hopefully I will realise that next time!
I wonder if it also might be worth mentioning at 0:18 - that we need to turn on the feature of re-opening old tabs - by going to Settings\General\Startup and ticking the box. I was actually clicking HISTORY and RESTORE PREVIOUS SESSION every time I opened Firefox because I didn't realise (until now) that I could turn it on as an automatic feature!
Anyway, thanks again for your video & your reply.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, most grateful. Please I had opened 2-Windows with lots of Tabs on each. How do I manage the open the other? Looking forward to earliest responses.
Those backup files keep information about all opened browser's windows and tabs.
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.
It doesn't work. No matter what file I choose, even older ones that I am certain had more tabs. Firefox just opens with one tab and restoring previous session does not add any more tabs.
Can we still use the files from Firefox updates as backup? I tried following your steps using these instead but it didn’t work
I REALLY thank you !! I opened the last update. Many thanks!!
Welcome 👍
When using tab seassion mangaer
IndexedDB is not available in your browser.
I was able to use it until yesterday, but now I'm having trouble with my saved tabs disappearing.
What should I do?
Please tell me.
Wow. Your video is very informative. But how do we do it in opera?
Thanks 🙏
THANK U SOOO MUCH SAVED ME!!!!
I'm glad I could help you!
Somehow this still isn't working for me. I tries to open the backup file from a multi-tab session from last week and it just opens a single Home Tab. Is there a cookie or setting that I would need to change in Firefox to help?
@ 2013Electronics&Computers This seems like a simple and effective way to solve the problem but it didn't work. Just tonight I deleted all other backups except one from 11/27/2020. When I reopened Firefox It didn't restore ANY tabs from that date. How can I get this to work? Thanks!
It can create a new backup file with empty tabs in the main folder of your account (folder with numbers and letters). Just check for the same files with the same extension. If you find them then remove. And of course you have to do it with closed browser.
Hi, I have lost almost thirty tabs from a month's session, I can't find everything you show on your video, any suggestions ? I really want my old tabs back !
In library -> history -> last closed windows, you can press restore all closed windows at the bottom. This does what is represented here, if the file hasn't been overwritten by closing and reopening.
The key word is "If"
Thanks a lot made my day mate!
Happy to help!
how to do that first setting (continue where you left)
I watched over and over and tried to do everything as you said but because I have an iMac from 11 years ago maybe thats the reason I can't follow all these steps.
For example when I tried to find my task manager, there is no firefox to end there! I have copied thack backupsession file but that didn't help...
I had hundreds of open tabs for years and could everyday open them and use some! today I updated my iMac and when it restarted, all tabs were closed...my mistake was to close the tabs...(couldn't do anything else otherwise it could not restart!) so I am desperate...all those tabs for which I had spent a lot of time are gone. It will take ages to go to the history and find them! I hope you can help...
Happened to me again lately and the method didnt work even though it worked a few months earlier. BUT it did work after i restarted my pc. So copy the session you want to restore, restart PC and only after that reopen firdfox, and it works.
It happened to me today (again) and usually this method works but now it doesn't seem to :(
What version of firefox are you using?
@@razorsweeney i think it's the last version available cuz i always have auto-updates turned on
@@vladmunteanu1758 Mine is the latest too. But its weird that this method is not working all of a sudden. And I did notice my Firefox starting up weird with some adware search.
Damn I still can't get my tabs back. I think it was because I tried retrieving a previous tab in Firefox's history session, and the "sessionstore-backups" can't go back enough despite it was only 30 minutes ago.
Instructions didn't work. Only restores the most recent window & not the 30 tabs I lost when the computer crashed. Please try making an updated video.
This didn’t help, it didn’t restore all of my windows i had and when i open brave it opens all of my windows like nothing
Man I lost my stupid tabs after a recent update and I'm malding right now, even with this help I can't recover it unfortunately
Damn you change my life!
Actually your trick doesn't work as it is exposed here. So I'm leaving my try for other people. I'm using firefox version 94. I had to go one step back in the folder, and destroy the "sessionCheckpoint.json" file. Then returning in the session backups folder, I've had to add a file named "recovery.baklz4" (copy paste from a precedent session), and to copy paste a precedent file "upgrade.jsonlz4-year..." and to rename this last file into "recovery.jsonlz4".
I don't know how and why that works this way for me, but that's magical!
great job!
Thanks man, that trick did it for me. If it wasn't for you I would have lost everything!
Thanks your way worked and saved me hours of trouble.
also up vote this for it to be seen by others
Gonna have to try this, my whole pc crashed (blue screened) and now won't start, I'll have to see if I can access the folder and copy it to another system to see if I can use that one.
Is there a way to retarget the folders so I can store it on my nas (network drive) or something and it'd be updated from there in the future?
Well, I just did this with an old backup (from february) and it works, I wish I had a more current "backup" but this gets me closer.....
THANK YOU!!!!!
P.s. I'd still like info on the retarget.
I'm happy to help!
So I had two firefox windows open, and they've always opened up again with firefox, but when I accidentally let ccleaner close it, it won't pop back up, help
CCleaner simply removed all those browser files. I don't recommend using that software at all. It removes tons of system and apps files. And those files are gone forever.
@@ElectronicsComputers Noted, but I've gotten over it, there were no mission critical tabs tbf, just a lot that were multiple months old at this point. But when it comes to cleaning my cache and other such folders, it is quite nice to have, since I at least haven't experienced any inconveniences because of it
Couldn't understand anything near the end. You're doing it SO FAST, nothing worked!
This isn't working for me. Keep getting the previous unwanted new tab with every file in sessionstore-backups, 3 upgrades, 2 recovery & 1 previous& not one worked.. This all started after firefox crashed & then asked me to sign in. They sent a code to my email to sign in with. When I signed in with the code it automatically opened a new window without my tabs in grrrr :| Can I go back to previous session in the BIOS during a reboot, anyone know?
Really, Really Really Thank you. Is there anything for chrome too?
Misfortune has struk me again :( last month I used this to recover my tabs after a normal crash. But today my firefox crashed due to the new 127.0.1 update and I couldnt open firefox. I had no choice but to reinstall firefox. I looked at sessionrestore after I reinstalled but the files in there are basically empty. I was then going to restore the really old files from my older session but I accidentally did the process one time with firefox opened - now the old sessions wont restore.
Is there any way for me to get my tabs back after un/reinstall? And is there anyway to get my REALLY old sessions to work again after having accidentally pasted them with firefox open?
Also, is there any way to save tabs in case this happens again?
Its not fair I lose my work TWICE because firefox is garbage!
Please and thank you
did not work. i wish it did. lost all my pinned tabs. tried all 6 files in my folder, nothing worked.
thank you man you are a life saver hh
I'm happy to help!
How to restaure with the files 4 or 5 ? it doesn't work for me, files 1 2 and 3 are updated with empty tabs if i remoove them and reaopen Firefox it doesn't load files 4 it just create a new 1 2 and 3.
Close your browser via task manager, then remove those files. Also, go to the previous folder (one step back) and remove one backup file. Its name will be pretty much obvious. Then start your browser.
I thought this would help but the files were just completely gone.
It just happened to me again! My advice is DON'T use firefox, ever!
*Just use ANY other browsers and you won't lose tabs!!! IT'S THAT SIMPLE!!!*
With firefox after a reboot you will ALWAYS lose ALL your tabs if you don't manually use the restore button.
i tried to do it using one of the upgrade file but it doesn't work any chance of showing another video using the upgrade.jsonlz4
Thanks alot, FOR ANYONE WHO HAS THE PROBLEM THAT FIREFOX OVERWRITES YOUR OLDER FILE AFTER PASTING, you really have to close Firefox via Taskmanager, even the 32 bit sessions in the bottom part of the list of current running programs, thank you again, I knew this trick but didn't keep everything in mind😅
You're welcome!
it didnt work and i accidentally deleted task manager😭😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you so much. I did restored all my lost tabs. fuhh...
Glad I could help
Even though the backup is from 12 days BEFORE the crash, it's empty. 200+ tabs lost
If you 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. Next, remove any newly generated backup files in the sessionstore-backups folder. After that, navigate back to your profile folder and delete these two files: sessionstore.jsonlz4 and sessionCheckpoints.json.
Once these steps are completed, you can copy the backup file into the sessionstore-backups folder (one step back from the sessionstore-backups folder) and start the browser. If you wish 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.
better solution use tab session manager
You're a boss! Thank you so much for this.
Glad it helped!
How to you do this on a mac?
Thanks man, you're a lifesaver
Happy to help
My man saved me! thanks
Glad I could help!
Hello! I wanted to ask you does this work in case Firefox does not open anymore and you need to reinstall it.If you reinstall Firefox can you this method to restore your previous session because in my case Firefox does not open anymore not even as Admin.Are you able to help me ?
Yes you can but before reinstalling backup the folder with your profile data.
does anyone know how to save the previous session if I tap on browser's red X(like close the browser, but actually not?)
This method used to work for me but never does anymore. I decided to just ditch firefox for something better.
There's too many variables which may affect the final result. Sometimes it works sometimes not...
@John Doe You are my hero!
I installed firefox recently and I tried with 6 jsonlz4 files that I recovered from another hard drive that I had formatted, but it didn't work. The files are from 2 months ago. 2 have 1 date and the other 4 another. Is it still possible to recover those sessions? I also wonder the same about bookmarks.
Close Firefox, remove all files from the sessionstore-backups folder and then copy your files from another drive. Go back to the main folder of your account (one step back) and remove within that folder delete the following files: sessionCheckpoints.json; sessionstore.js + variations like sessionstore-1.js, sessionstore.bak, etc. Finally, Start Firefox.
why this is not work for me? i do same. but it update the previous.jsonlz4
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.
This important video must have more than 200 comments in 3 years. It is perhaps the voice volume is hard to understand. The close captioning doesn't match the voice. And the explanation is fast and visibly hard to see. Thanks anyway
Sorry about that
wont work lost 30 tabs
It didn't work on me :(
Did not work for me at all
i dont get it im doing something wrong and i dont know what it is,i have the information but firefox just dont use it,it keeps opening the last open tabs,even when i erased all the files and paste the old upgrade one from like a week ago,why does it keep opening last sesiosn what i am doing wrong?
Go back from sessionstore-backups folder you'll see a bunch of folders and files there. And you have to delete backup file which looks similar to what you've seen essionstore-backups folder. That file keeps your recent session.
Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
thx man for the video
Any time
@@ElectronicsComputers 💙
Thank you so much.
You're welcome!
Thank you very much for the information 👍😊
My pleasure 😊
Thanks!!! It works
You're welcome!
yah this did absolutely nothing for me.. i pretty much lost months worth of tabs. note to self, backup all your files.
Hey there! I will try it! 😉
Hope you enjoy
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
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Happy to help!