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* recovery.baklz4 is deleted from sessionstore-backups * recovery.jsonlz4 is moved from the sessionstore-backups folder to the main level of the profile folder and renamed to sessionstore.jsonlz4 ''If Firefox has selected the icon for your profile folder but not actually opened the folder, double-click the icon to open it.'' * type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter * (menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information * "3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information

FIREFOX RESTORE FROM SESSIONRESTORE FILE MAC

''Here's an old write-up for reference - I haven't had a Mac for a couple years and the folder may vary with automatic restore:'' * your profile folder (up a level from sessionstore-backups) should have a '''sessionstore.jsonlz4''' file * your sessionstore-backups folder should have a '''recovery.jsonlz4''' file, or Read this answer in context 👍 1 All Replies (3)

FIREFOX RESTORE FROM SESSIONRESTORE FILE WINDOWS

(5) Start Firefox and it should read the swapped in sessionstore.jsonlz4 and restore whatever was in the substitute file if you do not have Firefox set to restore your previous windows and tabs automatically, use History > Restore Previous Session (4) Copy in the other file you want to restore, and rename it to sessionstore.jsonlz4 - after the rename, Finder should show it right next to sessionstoreOLD.jsonlz4 in alphabetical order (if it works like Windows) (3) Once Firefox has stopped updating things, while viewing the main level of the profile folder, rename sessionstore.jsonlz4 to sessionstoreOLD.jsonlz4 recovery.baklz4 is deleted from sessionstore-backups.recovery.jsonlz4 is moved from the sessionstore-backups folder to the main level of the profile folder and renamed to sessionstore.jsonlz4.

Pause while Firefox finishes its cleanup - these changes should occur: (2) Leaving that window open, switch back to Firefox and Quit, either: If Firefox has selected the icon for your profile folder but not actually opened the folder, double-click the icon to open it. This should launch a Finder window listing the various files and folders in your profile. In the first table on the page, click the "Show in Finder" button.

type or paste about:support in the address bar and press Enter.

(menu bar) Help > Troubleshooting Information.

"3-bar" menu button > "?" button > Troubleshooting Information.

(1) From inside Firefox, open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using either To try swapping in a session history file from your backup folder so Firefox will load it, the standard "manual swap" method is as follows (assuming Firefox is still running): Here's an old write-up for reference - I haven't had a Mac for a couple years and the folder may vary with automatic restore: So in order to fool Firefox into restoring an older session history file, you replace the one it is looking for with the old one, and give it the same name.

your profile folder (up a level from sessionstore-backups) should have a sessionstore.jsonlz4 file.

your sessionstore-backups folder should have a recovery.jsonlz4 file, or.

If your Firefox is set to restore every time, then after you exit out, either: This is nothing unusual in my experience, as it keeps happening about once a month.

FIREFOX RESTORE FROM SESSIONRESTORE FILE SOFTWARE

*) There was no obvious crash, though Firefox just did not automatically load upon restarting my Macbook, which is always running the latest version of any software installed. ) There was no obvious crash, though Firefox just did not automatically load upon restarting my Macbook, which is always running the latest version of any software installed.How can I restore my tabs from that file? However, I cannot find a way to restore the tabs from that file as Firefox just keeps ignoring any changes that I make to the files name and folder contents. While none of the files in that folder are intelligible, I can see from text snippets that a file called "upgrade.jsonlz4-20191202093317" is the only one that potentially holds a backup of my tabs. Exploring the forum for help, I found that menu "Help" > "Troubleshooting Information" will lead to a page on which one can find the profile folder, which in turn contains a folder called "sessionstore-backup," in which Firefox keeps a history of previous sessions' tabs. For reasons unbeknownst to me*, Firefox started without restoring the tabs from my previous session.