Firefox 26.0 - Restore tabs and windows

With previous version of Firefox a <sessionrestore.js> file was created.
What about Firefox 26.0 ?
How to manually restore it ?
Furthermore the CrashReporter app keep history.
Is there a way to restore my of tabs and windows opened ?
Tanks you for your help.

Thanks John.
In fact, the 'Conduit' app which was embeeded in another install and that I did not noticed unfortunately changed my default home page as well as the option 'When Firefox starts' which was...A terrific joke !
Please let Mozilla know about that as this is IMPORTANT : I hope that no others app will start to recreate this ugly situation & firefox should not let this re happened.
I had a 'crash' already and knew about the <sessionrestore.js> but yesterday backuped immediately the...Wrong 'Firefox' folder not the '...\AppData\Roaming\' one !
That was the reason I asked the forum about the version 26.0 as I could not found the <sessionrestore.js> file.
Furthermore if I had used the 'about:sessionrestore' that might have solved my issue.
...Worked hard last night in order to recover my stuff as I lost nearly a month of saved tabs - and didn t finished yet !
I m still convinced that like me, many others firefox users have many windows and tabs open at the same time - while some are not geek isn t ?
From my point of view, I will suggest that a future version of firefox should have an easy mechanisms included in order to automatically backup the <sessionrestore.js> file on a desired basis.
That will do the trick with more efficience and security.
What Firefox developers are thinking of that !???
Thanks again for your help.
Regards, Jean

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