Recover history from Crash in Private Browsing

I was using Private Browsing on 3 tabs and suddenly it crash . When it restarted back, the 3 tabs gone.
The tabs is really important for me, how to get the website address back ?
I did submit the crash report, is that possible for me to get the link back via the crash report

No that is not possible. Such Crash URLs are not publicly available,not even to the crash report submitter. (They could be used in correlation report generation or automated testing of those URLs)
In future if website addresses are important bookmark them or otherwise copy and record them. Had you used ordinary browsing you would have had access at least to the history information that would normally include such information (depending on your choice of settings)
* see also [[Private Browsing - Browse the web without saving information about the sites you visit]]
You appear to be using Firefox 16 ! you should update that is old insecure and unsupported.
*[[Update Firefox to the latest version]]
If you have problems with crashes other than on single specific faulty sites see
* [[Firefox crashes - Troubleshoot, prevent and get help fixing crashes]]

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Ever since updating to to 5.1, I activate Private Browsing and my viewing history still shows. Any way around this, or to fix this? I did not see any new options in Preferences.
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No that is not possible. Such Crash URLs are not publicly available,not even to the crash report submitter. (They could be used in correlation report generation or automated testing of those URLs)
In future if website addresses are important bookmark them or otherwise copy and record them. Had you used ordinary browsing you would have had access at least to the history information that would normally include such information (depending on your choice of settings)
* see also [[Private Browsing - Browse the web without saving information about the sites you visit]]
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