Restoring tabs in Mozilla Firefox
When working in a browser, the ability to save and then restore tabs can be very useful. Mozilla Firefox is one of the leading web applications and developers are constantly working to improve it. However, Firefox crashes still happen. That is why it is so important to know how to restore tabs in Mozilla.
Settings for restoring tabs to default
If Firefox has all the default settings, after a crash or restart of the browser, you can simply get to the home page, so you will not be able to open and restore data.
To set a restore previous session rule that opens tabs active in the last session:
When you close the browser and re-enter it, you will see all the tabs you were working with before you closed it. And if Firefox crashes, you'll see a pop-up frame asking you to restore your previous session.
How to restore tabs in Firefox through History
If session recovery is correctly configured in the browser, when restarting, all tabs can be launched through the "Journal" located on the main menu bar. If the history of your visits and open pages is preserved, either the "Restore previous session" item or the "Recently closed tabs / windows" drop-down menu will be active. Through this menu, for example, you can open the last closed Firefox tab.
How to restore closed tabs in Mozilla through synchronization
If you need to restore tabs in Firefox that were open on another device, there is a synchronization function for this.
How to restore Firefox tabs through Session Manager
Session Manager is an official browser plugin that not only helps Firefox restore closed tabs, but also makes it easier to save and catalog them. Thanks to it, you can create registries with specific sessions and open them at any time upon request. Without it, it is impossible to restore tabs in Mozilla from previous sessions. It also helps to extract accidentally closed pages from the history.
To install the addon, go to the browser and hold down Ctrl+Shift+A or type about:addons into the address bar. A menu to search for add-ons will open.
Here, through the search for add-ons, find Session Manager and install. The app works fine without restarting the browser.
The addon has a fairly flexible system of settings for saving sessions, so you can easily restore a closed tab in Mozilla with it. The Session Manager extension archive can store up to 30 browser sessions.
How to restore closed tabs in Firefox through system files
If the browser contained the data you needed, for reinsurance it is better to save this file in a separate folder in order to restore the information.
So that the next time you open the browser, the question of how to return the closed tab in Mozilla does not stand, you must not allow the sessionstore to be overwritten. You can find it in the user profile on the device:
- On Windows 7 and above, in the C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\***.default directory. A folder with the default extension can have any numbers and letters in the name. This is where the current session state is stored in sessionstore.js, as well as in the sessionstore-backups folder;
- Mac: ~/Library/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/;
- On Linux: ~/.mozilla/firefox.