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How to restore Chrome without "Restore" button and the files "Last Session" and "Last Tabs"?

I was using Chrome halfway when the computer crashed. Usually if I restart and re-run Chrome, there would be a Restore button to recover my lost Chrome session. However, I restarted in Safe Mode, and ...
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9 answers
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How to decode/decipher Mozilla Firefox proprietary .jsonlz4 format? (sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4)

I'm trying to get a handle on Mozilla Firefox's proprietary file format .jsonlz4, used, for example, for sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4, but to no avail. How do I get back my data, ...
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Can I "restore tabs" in Microsoft Edge from another user's profile?

I had a new User Profile created for me, with the old User Profile still available and readable by me. I am a bit hesitant about doing a "rough" Edge user data migration, of just copying the ...
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1 answer
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Stop Auto-Playing YouTube Videos When Restoring Google Chrome Session Tabs Only

I regularly have a large number of tabs open, and often several of these tabs are YouTube videos which have been paused. For the sake of an example, let's say I have 12 tabs with paused YouTube videos ...
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6 answers
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How to recover a Notepad++ lost session

I had my Notepad++ with at least 50 opened files on it, organizing all my work. I left the computer as always hibernating overnight and surprise, this morning all was gone. An error message popped ...
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Where does Microsoft Edge store InPrivate sessions?

I understand this is a tricky question. I was visiting several important sites on a borrowed device (Windows 11 Pro, Edge up to date), using Microsoft Edge in InPrivate mode (like Chrome's Incognito ...
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Where does Google Chrome save the startup websites, continue where you left off?

I had to install a fresh Windows 10 on a new SSD. The SSD on which the previous Windows 10 is installed is OK, all files can be accessed from D:\. About the favorites, I copied the files located in D:\...
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examine sessionstore.json for unsaved text field recovery

When SeaMonkey or Firefox crashes, some of the text you write within various HTML forms is supposed to be recoverable through the sessionstore.json within your profile. The issue is that the ...
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Get rid of the "Restore pages" warning in Microsoft Edge

I am resurrecting this question, because I haven't found any conclusive answer or working resolution. This question was asked 1,5 year ago and the problem still exists. Whenever you close your system ...
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1 answer
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How to turn off Firefox session store files' compression

Not sure which Firefox version turned on compressed session store, but seemingly have a situation where not only did the current file not get written in a format LZ4 tools can decompress, but also the ...
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1 answer
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Can I restore a lost Chrome session? [duplicate]

My chrome crashed on me and the restore previous session button didn't work. Is there a way to restore previous session? I had 4 windows with different tabs opened through days and they were saved ...
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How to restore chrome tabs after a reboot if you accidentally closed the restore popup?

I had dozen of important tabs I carried for couple days, though I did open and close several other tabs, and then i hat to reboot my computer because it was stuck. As usual when i launched chrome, ...
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1 answer
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Wait for the server in PuTTy

Is there any run switch or configuration setting in PuTTY for Windows that instead of showing me this screen: Would rather ask me a question, if I want to wait some time and try to reestablish the ...
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Recover Chromium Edge session that couldn't reopen

I have it set to "continue where you left off" in the startup settings, but this time, it didn't. I had several windows with a total of over 1000 tabs. Whenever I started them up, they froze ...
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10 answers
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How to hide chrome warning after crash?

When Chrome has crashed, it displays a warning (under the address bar) upon restart, offering to restore tabs. I'm launching chrome in kiosk mode and I don't want theses warnings to be displayed. Is ...

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