Where does Firefox store the opened windows/tabs/URLs for session restore after a crash?

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In which location and file does Firefox save the last windows I had opened (when Firefox crashed)?

I have a complete "hot dump" copy of a file system and need to restore the state Firefox was when the system crashed, but I cannot restore the full backup itself. I can only extract the files of Firefox, but I do not know in which files I have to search for the URLs that were last opened when the snapshot of the whole file system was done.

jens

Posted 2010-04-24T09:36:05.757

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It's in sessionstore.js in your profile directory. It can be moved to a different profile without problem.

(This might also show sessionstore.bak, which is a backup of the previous version of that file.)

Arjan

Posted 2010-04-24T09:36:05.757

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Thanks very much!! I was able to recover the session with your help!! thanks. – jens – 2010-04-24T10:58:19.290

Other important Firefox files, such as your history, passwords, personal dictionary, cookies and search engine configurations can also be found in that folder.

– Dan Dascalescu – 2016-08-10T03:41:12.903

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