2026-10-16 16:27 UTC
Another thing!
I'm very frustrated how Firefox is SO INCREDIBLY INCONSISTENT about, when I recover from a crash
1. It reopens all my windows, even if there are 1,000 of them and this will create a problem
2. It reopens no windows, but I can go into "History" and recover them from "restore previous session" or "recently closed tabs"
3. It's gone! There's fucking nothing you can do!
I had a group of tabs with links I was meaning to copy into a file to save for later yesterday. Didn't hurry :(
Replies (2)
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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-10-16 16:29
Didn't occur to me "oh, you can't just leave a Firefox window open and assume it will still be open tomorrow. you are in the 1990s again".
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@JosJuice@mastodon.social 2026-10-16 16:41
@mcc@mastodon.social I don't have it anymore, but a number of years ago I used to have that kind of problem of Firefox forgetting my tabs. What I found very helpful back then was: Immediately when I notice my tabs are gone, rush into the sessionstore-backups folder of the Firefox profile and back up the files. Firefox stores both a latest version and a previous version, and overwriting the latest with the previous successfully restored my tabs the times I did it