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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jowi Morales

Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session

Firefox browser.

A recent post by X user Hazel complained that a browsing session with over 7,000 open tabs, maintained for the last two years, had been totally cleared. While this might seem like a horror story for those who value their browsing tabs and history (and for systems with Chrome browsers), Hazel retrieved those tabs-of-treasure thanks to the X community explaining how to restore an old Firefox browsing session from the profiles cache.

In an interview with PCMag, Hazel said she keeps all those tabs open because she likes “to scroll back and see clusters of tabs from months ago — it’s like a trip down memory lane on whatever I was doing/learning about/thinking about.” So, when she recovered her 7,000+ tab browsing session, she said, “I feel like a part of me is restored.”

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