I can't get Firefox to restore a previous session, despite it offering backups.

Firefox was constantly crashing. I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work. I want to restore all of my windows/tabs that were lost in the crashing, and I can get to the "restore" in the history window, but it's not restoring anything! How do I get my tabs back? (I had probably around 80 between two windows, it would be a PITA to have to go and re-load them individually, especially since restoring from a previous session doesn't cause them to show up as a new entry in the history window!)

Firefox was constantly crashing. I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work. I want to restore all of my windows/tabs that were lost in the crashing, and I can get to the "restore" in the history window, but it's not restoring anything! How do I get my tabs back? (I had probably around 80 between two windows, it would be a PITA to have to go and re-load them individually, especially since restoring from a previous session doesn't cause them to show up as a new entry in the history window!)

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