Firefox doesn't restore sessions
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Every now and then when I open Firefox it doesn't restore the previous session. What's even more irritatiing is that I can't seem to restore any previous sessions manually because the history is gone. It doesn't matter wether it's an unexpected shutdown or not. When I look in the folder sessionstore-backups there aren't any sessions except for the current one. No older sessions are saved.
My browsing history however is still available so I can access most of the tabs one by one, but all my sessions are completely gone. This is starting to be quite annoying, especially since it seems to occur at completly random.
Any ideas? I have checked that FF is supposed to restore previous session and it works - mostly.
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Every now and then when I open Firefox it doesn't restore the previous session. What's even more irritatiing is that I can't seem to restore any previous sessions manually because the history is gone. It doesn't matter wether it's an unexpected shutdown or not. When I look in the folder sessionstore-backups there aren't any sessions except for the current one. No older sessions are saved.
My browsing history however is still available so I can access most of the tabs one by one, but all my sessions are completely gone. This is starting to be quite annoying, especially since it seems to occur at completly random.
Any ideas? I have checked that FF is supposed to restore previous session and it works - mostly.
firefox
asked Nov 18 at 8:04
Sandokan
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Do you get a message that Firefox has a problem restoring the session, or it just opens a new session with just your start tab? What OS? What version of FF? Have you checked your drive for corruption? Have you tried creating a fresh profile?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 8:15
@fixer1234 No error message, just new session, W8.1, ver 63.03 (64-bit), no corrupt drive. Created fresh profile but can't manually recreate the error.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 8:32
When you say you can't manually recreate the error, do you mean that there is no error with the fresh profile, or that the problem is unpredictable and you don't know whether the fresh profile has the issue? If you were just to switch to the new profile, how long would you need to go without a recurrence to be confident that the problem was gone?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 9:06
@fixer1234 No error with the new profile and the problem is very unpredictable. I don't know what causes it. It can happen again after a week or two months. There is no clear pattern.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 10:01
Erratic behavior in Firefox is typically from a couple of sources. One is add-ons; either an add-on with bugs, incompatibilities between multiple add-ons, or incompatibilities between add-ons and stuff running in the background. The other is corruption. V63 is pretty recent. If you had the symptom before updating to v63, it probably isn't corruption in the Firefox application. If it just started after updating to v63, rule out application corruption by uninstalling FF and reinstalling it from a fresh download. That shouldn't affect your profile. (cont'd)
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 10:56
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Every now and then when I open Firefox it doesn't restore the previous session. What's even more irritatiing is that I can't seem to restore any previous sessions manually because the history is gone. It doesn't matter wether it's an unexpected shutdown or not. When I look in the folder sessionstore-backups there aren't any sessions except for the current one. No older sessions are saved.
My browsing history however is still available so I can access most of the tabs one by one, but all my sessions are completely gone. This is starting to be quite annoying, especially since it seems to occur at completly random.
Any ideas? I have checked that FF is supposed to restore previous session and it works - mostly.
firefox
asked Nov 18 at 8:04
Sandokan
1732210
Every now and then when I open Firefox it doesn't restore the previous session. What's even more irritatiing is that I can't seem to restore any previous sessions manually because the history is gone. It doesn't matter wether it's an unexpected shutdown or not. When I look in the folder sessionstore-backups there aren't any sessions except for the current one. No older sessions are saved.
My browsing history however is still available so I can access most of the tabs one by one, but all my sessions are completely gone. This is starting to be quite annoying, especially since it seems to occur at completly random.
Any ideas? I have checked that FF is supposed to restore previous session and it works - mostly.
firefox
firefox
asked Nov 18 at 8:04
Sandokan
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asked Nov 18 at 8:04
Sandokan
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asked Nov 18 at 8:04
Sandokan
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asked Nov 18 at 8:04
Sandokan
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asked Nov 18 at 8:04
Sandokan
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Do you get a message that Firefox has a problem restoring the session, or it just opens a new session with just your start tab? What OS? What version of FF? Have you checked your drive for corruption? Have you tried creating a fresh profile?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 8:15
@fixer1234 No error message, just new session, W8.1, ver 63.03 (64-bit), no corrupt drive. Created fresh profile but can't manually recreate the error.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 8:32
When you say you can't manually recreate the error, do you mean that there is no error with the fresh profile, or that the problem is unpredictable and you don't know whether the fresh profile has the issue? If you were just to switch to the new profile, how long would you need to go without a recurrence to be confident that the problem was gone?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 9:06
@fixer1234 No error with the new profile and the problem is very unpredictable. I don't know what causes it. It can happen again after a week or two months. There is no clear pattern.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 10:01
Erratic behavior in Firefox is typically from a couple of sources. One is add-ons; either an add-on with bugs, incompatibilities between multiple add-ons, or incompatibilities between add-ons and stuff running in the background. The other is corruption. V63 is pretty recent. If you had the symptom before updating to v63, it probably isn't corruption in the Firefox application. If it just started after updating to v63, rule out application corruption by uninstalling FF and reinstalling it from a fresh download. That shouldn't affect your profile. (cont'd)
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 10:56
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Do you get a message that Firefox has a problem restoring the session, or it just opens a new session with just your start tab? What OS? What version of FF? Have you checked your drive for corruption? Have you tried creating a fresh profile?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 8:15
@fixer1234 No error message, just new session, W8.1, ver 63.03 (64-bit), no corrupt drive. Created fresh profile but can't manually recreate the error.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 8:32
When you say you can't manually recreate the error, do you mean that there is no error with the fresh profile, or that the problem is unpredictable and you don't know whether the fresh profile has the issue? If you were just to switch to the new profile, how long would you need to go without a recurrence to be confident that the problem was gone?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 9:06
@fixer1234 No error with the new profile and the problem is very unpredictable. I don't know what causes it. It can happen again after a week or two months. There is no clear pattern.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 10:01
Erratic behavior in Firefox is typically from a couple of sources. One is add-ons; either an add-on with bugs, incompatibilities between multiple add-ons, or incompatibilities between add-ons and stuff running in the background. The other is corruption. V63 is pretty recent. If you had the symptom before updating to v63, it probably isn't corruption in the Firefox application. If it just started after updating to v63, rule out application corruption by uninstalling FF and reinstalling it from a fresh download. That shouldn't affect your profile. (cont'd)
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 10:56
Do you get a message that Firefox has a problem restoring the session, or it just opens a new session with just your start tab? What OS? What version of FF? Have you checked your drive for corruption? Have you tried creating a fresh profile?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 8:15
Do you get a message that Firefox has a problem restoring the session, or it just opens a new session with just your start tab? What OS? What version of FF? Have you checked your drive for corruption? Have you tried creating a fresh profile?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 8:15
@fixer1234 No error message, just new session, W8.1, ver 63.03 (64-bit), no corrupt drive. Created fresh profile but can't manually recreate the error.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 8:32
@fixer1234 No error message, just new session, W8.1, ver 63.03 (64-bit), no corrupt drive. Created fresh profile but can't manually recreate the error.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 8:32
When you say you can't manually recreate the error, do you mean that there is no error with the fresh profile, or that the problem is unpredictable and you don't know whether the fresh profile has the issue? If you were just to switch to the new profile, how long would you need to go without a recurrence to be confident that the problem was gone?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 9:06
When you say you can't manually recreate the error, do you mean that there is no error with the fresh profile, or that the problem is unpredictable and you don't know whether the fresh profile has the issue? If you were just to switch to the new profile, how long would you need to go without a recurrence to be confident that the problem was gone?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 9:06
@fixer1234 No error with the new profile and the problem is very unpredictable. I don't know what causes it. It can happen again after a week or two months. There is no clear pattern.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 10:01
@fixer1234 No error with the new profile and the problem is very unpredictable. I don't know what causes it. It can happen again after a week or two months. There is no clear pattern.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 10:01
Erratic behavior in Firefox is typically from a couple of sources. One is add-ons; either an add-on with bugs, incompatibilities between multiple add-ons, or incompatibilities between add-ons and stuff running in the background. The other is corruption. V63 is pretty recent. If you had the symptom before updating to v63, it probably isn't corruption in the Firefox application. If it just started after updating to v63, rule out application corruption by uninstalling FF and reinstalling it from a fresh download. That shouldn't affect your profile. (cont'd)
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 10:56
Erratic behavior in Firefox is typically from a couple of sources. One is add-ons; either an add-on with bugs, incompatibilities between multiple add-ons, or incompatibilities between add-ons and stuff running in the background. The other is corruption. V63 is pretty recent. If you had the symptom before updating to v63, it probably isn't corruption in the Firefox application. If it just started after updating to v63, rule out application corruption by uninstalling FF and reinstalling it from a fresh download. That shouldn't affect your profile. (cont'd)
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 10:56
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Do you get a message that Firefox has a problem restoring the session, or it just opens a new session with just your start tab? What OS? What version of FF? Have you checked your drive for corruption? Have you tried creating a fresh profile?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 8:15
@fixer1234 No error message, just new session, W8.1, ver 63.03 (64-bit), no corrupt drive. Created fresh profile but can't manually recreate the error.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 8:32
When you say you can't manually recreate the error, do you mean that there is no error with the fresh profile, or that the problem is unpredictable and you don't know whether the fresh profile has the issue? If you were just to switch to the new profile, how long would you need to go without a recurrence to be confident that the problem was gone?
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 9:06
@fixer1234 No error with the new profile and the problem is very unpredictable. I don't know what causes it. It can happen again after a week or two months. There is no clear pattern.
– Sandokan
Nov 18 at 10:01
Erratic behavior in Firefox is typically from a couple of sources. One is add-ons; either an add-on with bugs, incompatibilities between multiple add-ons, or incompatibilities between add-ons and stuff running in the background. The other is corruption. V63 is pretty recent. If you had the symptom before updating to v63, it probably isn't corruption in the Firefox application. If it just started after updating to v63, rule out application corruption by uninstalling FF and reinstalling it from a fresh download. That shouldn't affect your profile. (cont'd)
– fixer1234
Nov 18 at 10:56