(that way we know we're saving all of our open tabs). Say, for instance, you close Firefox at 10 p.m. What we're going to do is use cron to create a daily backup that will occur before Firefox is closed at the end of the day. Where USER is your Linux username and STRING is a random string of characters.Ĭopy that full path. Your Profile Directory will be in /home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/fault This page gives you more information about Firefox than you probably ever needed. In the resulting window ( Figure A), look for the line Profile Directory. To do this, open Firefox and type about:support in the address bar. The first thing we must do is locate our Firefox profile directory. How to locate your Firefox profile directory The only thing you'll need is a running instance of Firefox. I'll be demonstrating on Linux, but this can be done on macOS and Windows as well (you just have to adjust the directories and tools used). I'm going to show you how to do just that. It's not 100% foolproof, but it has helped me in the past. One way to avoid such frustration is to regularly back up a specific directory which houses the session state. If I don't close that secondary window first when I reopen Firefox the next day, it will remember whatever state it was in when it was last closed.
Let's say, for example, I forget that I had a second Firefox window open with a single tab. You see, I have Firefox set to Restore previous session (in Settings), so it always picks up where I left off. Go to start -> settings -> Control Panel -> Internet Optionsģ.But on occasion, it does. Open Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options Then click Enable on the link that writes: "Disable Better session restore"ġ. In the resulting grid, double-click on _from_crash to set it to false.Ģ. In the Search box at the top, type _from_crash.ģ. Click I'll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.Ģ. The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter. This will prevent restoring a previous session when Firefox is opened after an unexpected close or software crash:ġ. You may also wish to disable the Session Restore crash recovery feature which is enabled by default.
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