Firefox's awfully poor Resotre Session has caused me to burst a capillary

...almost. Seriously though, how are we in 2013 with an internet browser that, after a crash, won't restore the last session? This has been a constant problem with firefox over the years, and whilst I appreciate that the functionality of tabs in firefox and being able to manage them in groups via addons is fantastic for workflow compared to its rivals; how is it that all this can be entirely lost from time to time with no more than a blank Restore Session page as its only answer!?
Yes, I have tried about:sessionresotre that doesn't seem to work these days. Yes I have tried doing the replacing of the .bak file to the sessionstore.js. For me, this did not work after my system was restarted and Firefox couldn't manage to keep the information. If the browser isn't capable of managing tabs long term then why have it as an option? I have lost a lot less months of organisation to this, and an hour FURIOUS just now trying to get it back and subsequently writing this.
Am I missing some killer esoteric Mozilla 3rd party app that sorts this out? Why can't we just save or autosave the tabs or even a document of the tabs/groups in word saved somewhere form at least!
I hope you appreciate my blind rage about this, but as I said, we live in a world of Graphene and 3D printers but we have no way of safeguarding or backing up or having a contingency plan for a internet browsing session?

Quite right, peerbeckmann, however I have had this problem since before using the Tab manager addon (a great idea in itself) You have given a useful idea however to save a Tab group to a bookmark folder every now and then and then restore from there...still...this should be a feature of the addon I think! Or officially a part of Firefox.
Cheers.

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We want managing your media to be easy! It saddens me to hear that this is not occuring. Do you receive a specific error message when the browser times out? Have you tried using a different browser?
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Firefox 2.0.0.20 is the last ever version of Firefox for Win98 / SE / ME.
You can get it from here, but you are better off using K-Meleon (derived from Firefox) or Opera instead an old version of Firefox:
[ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/win32/en-US/]
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/

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''I figured it was going to be FAFSA causing your problem.''
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