Well, things are now even worse... Today, I got the "Well, this is embarrasing..." window/tab restore window. I have had it many times over the years (not too much lately, which is odd, as I believe FF crashes on exit every time now...). I just click on restore, and all windows/tabs come up just fine.
This time was apparently no different. However, after I did I checked my email, i suddenly noticed that I had only four FF windows, instead of the usual ten or eleven. I pulled up the profile directory and session store backups directories, as I have been doing every session lately, and noted that the recovery.js/.bak files (created for this session upon startup, as usual) were only 4.8MB in size. My previous.js was as expected, about 23MB. I tried to get my tabs back (admittedly 2 weeks old, as previous.js was dated August 16). I shut down FF, deleted recovery.js, copied previous.js to recovery.js and restarted FF. BIG mistake - I should have copied previous.js TWICE, once to something FF would not have recognized... When FF restarted, it was again only 4 windows, again only about 4.8MB. And NOW, the previous.js file was dated today, and was only about 4.8MB. Where the hell is FF getting its windows/tabs info??!!?? It sure wasn't getting it from the recovery.js file after I copied previous.js to it, as it had been 23MB. It wasn't sessionstore.js, as I have yet to see anything labelled that(or cleanBackup) in either my profile directory or its sessionstore-backups directory since before I started this bug. And yes, I did check - both when FF was running, and when it was not running. [I suppose it's too late, but if anyone has any idea how to get back all my windows/tabs, I would be very grateful to hear it... Perhaps some temporary file, or trash directory - I did check tmp and my Trash - nothing obvious there...] By the way - is there any way of having FF take a running session and making a session store file somewhere on demand (hopefully with the ability to name it myself) so that I can copy it for disasters like this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606763 Title: Recently, when FF starts up, not all of the restored windows/tabs are the most recent ones. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1606763/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
