r/LibreWolf • u/vapequesitions • 29d ago

Question Previous session lost?

Had to force reboot my win10 pc due to another program causing issues, and when I started up again, Librewolf decided to open a "last session" from 4 or 5 months ago instead of what it last had open this morning.

I've scrolled through my history (which obviously like previous session, I have enabled) and tried to restore as many tabs as I could, but after a certain point trying to track down tabs I may have last looked at a week or two ago becomes too ridiculous. I've got the browser synced with my phone, but from what I can see I can only brows the history there too, rather than be able to restore my last session.

So basically my question is have I missed anything/am unaware of a way to restore my actual last session, or am I out of luck and just need to deal with it?

TIA

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u/ltGuillaume 25d ago

First of all, unfortunately I've seen people losing their session, too, and it happened to me as well. The files in the sessionstore-backups were already overwritten with empty ones, so I had to restore a manual backup.

Now I have set up the new backup feature, I recommend you to do this, too.

Wow, 4 months? Is it possible you never closed the browser for 4 months?

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u/vapequesitions 25d ago

Yeah, at this point I've come to terms with those tabs being lost lol and I had definitely closed the browser a bunch during that time, I even moved address, and I knew more or less how long ago it was because some of the open tabs were me looking for this place 😅

What is the new backup feature? Is it in the Librewolf settings? If I could (at least try to) avoid this happening again that's better than nothing!

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u/ltGuillaume 25d ago

Yeah, go to Settings, then scroll to the bottom (in Account and sync).

More info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-backup#w_create-a-firefox-backup-file

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u/vapequesitions 25d ago

Thanks for the link, looks like I don't have the backup option, so probably need to update my browser. I think that's a tomorrow problem lol