Recover Firefox tabs after accidentally closing the window without saving the session.
I've gradually come to fully rely on Firefox's ability to recover my tabs after any kind of crash.  That faith was not entirely ill-founded but what I didn't have a contingency plan for was accidentally closing the Firefox window and saying not to save the session.  That just happened when my dad borrowed my laptop to check his email.  Oy.

Of course the full browser history is there but the dozens of tabs I had open are lost in a massive sea.  I ran "uptime" to see the time of my last reboot and looked for a cluster of URLs all opened around that time, but either I'm missing it, or the "last visited" time doesn't work that way.  In any case, I thought others might know a better way to recover the tabs, or have hacked up something to fish them out of Firefox's history or something.

(The lesson for the future of course is to just save everything to delicious (or wherever) and not rely on your browser state!  I'd also be interested to hear what systems others use to deal with this preventively.)

Recover Firefox tabs after accidentally closing the window without saving the session.
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I've gradually come to fully rely on Firefox's ability to recover my tabs after any kind of crash.  That faith was not entirely ill-founded but what I didn't have a contingency plan for was accidentally closing the Firefox window and saying not to save the session.  That just happened when my dad borrowed my laptop to check his email.  Oy.

Of course the full browser history is there but the dozens of tabs I had open are lost in a massive sea.  I ran "uptime" to see the time of my last reboot and looked for a cluster of URLs all opened around that time, but either I'm missing it, or the "last visited" time doesn't work that way.  In any case, I thought others might know a better way to recover the tabs, or have hacked up something to fish them out of Firefox's history or something.

(The lesson for the future of course is to just save everything to delicious (or wherever) and not rely on your browser state!  I'd also be interested to hear what systems others use to deal with this preventively.)
