Restoring open web pages from previous hard drive back up

I've had to replace a hard drive on a Mac computer running OSX. I had a large number of web pages open in Firefox on the previous drive, which I backed up completely before the new one was put in. I would like to restore these pages (similarly to the "restore previous session" function) perhaps using the Profile data from the application backed up on the previous drive.
Is there a data file or files that I can simply copy and paste over from the Firefox application contents on the previous hard drive which will allow me to to restore the session I had up before the hard drive was replaced when I start Firefox on the new computer? A solution to this would be much appreciated.

The ''sessionstore.js'' file in your profile folder stores your open tabs.
* [[Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data|What information is stored in my profile?]]

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