Firefox crashes and session restore is blank.

Session Restore is blank. After restart of computer. I know I had to many tabs. How to restore back to was? Other times also computer crashes inmedant shut off when I scroll with the mouse some times with to many tabs on page. Just leaves the power fan on. My computer ram is 704 mb. The older tab history is in the trouble shooting information I notice here. Can that be used to restore also?

Hi shape5, when Firefox closes, it creates the file sessionstore.js at the main level (not in the backups folder). That is the file Firefox reads at startup. After quitting out of Firefox, try renaming the sessionstore.js file to sessionstore.old, and then copy one of the available and promising-looking previous.js or recovery.js files to the main level and rename it sessionstore.js. Then start up Firefox and see whether you can restore that earlier session successfully.

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