* Felix Miata
Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote on 2014-09-30 00:42 (UTC-0500): ...
How about how to extract the info directly from the JSON file?
Any other ideas? [I'm tearing my hair out trying to fix this!] Any other forums to post to? (I'm not active on any Mozilla related forums presently, and I'm a mostly email list user vs web forum user). Web searches have not brought up much more than how to configure Session Restore, etc.
I will post any progress I am able to make on this.
[knock on wood]
How often do you back up your profile data? If you're a heavy user, the more often, the better. Sync could serve the backup function if you need it done unusually frequently.
Unfortunately, I haven't been backing up my profile data at all. This is the first time I've encountered this problem AFAICR, so I've been rather lazy in this regard. Any recommendations for a non-cloud based backup/sync option?
All that said, check first to see if maybe there is an extension designed for such recovery. Absent that, mozillazine.org is the place to search to see if there is a howto for this kind of recovery, if one exists. It should be the same for both Firefox and SM.
Still looking for info. Didn't think of looking for recovery oriented extensions. Hmmmmm....
Absent finding those, I see that the json file seems to be all or mostly text but with no newlines. You could sed a copy of it to insert newlines before each instance of https://, http:// or ftp://, then manually remove whatever appears to follow each URL to each EOL. Once you do that, you could email it to yourself as an inline attachment. Then viewing in plain text mode you could click each URL in the email to have it open in a tab or window. You wouldn't have the fwd/back history in each window or tab, but at least you would have the URLs.
Thanks for the detailed info. Interesting approach. I was able to pretty-print the JSON so it is more readable and is line-oriented and structured. I am now manually saving the essential info from the JSON file. Is rather time-consuming. It is rather instructive to see how much info is actually in the sessionstore.json file.
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