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Heads up, you may lose your tabs when you update. It seems normal tab restoring procedures apply, but if you collect many like me, it means an initial shock of reloading all of them.

"I lost my tabs after the update — What can I do?

You may notice that after updating Firefox to version 94, the tabs from your previous session were closed. To learn how to restore a previous session, visit How do I restore my tabs from last time? Alternatively, following the prompts in the Open previous tabs? one-time notification that will appear after the update will also allow you to restore the tabs from your previous session. "

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-configure-close-tab...

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It would be so, so easy to guard against this if they would just give people:

about:tabs

... which would be a plain text listing of all the URLs of all the tabs you have open.

You could just copy and paste it to a file or whatever.

Instead, we need to dig several directories deep into /Library (or whatever, depending on OS) and then use JSON tools to export ... I've already lost most people.

Go search for "how can I export tabs" or "how can I save tab urls" and you'll see thousands of people trying (usually in vain) to achieve this very, very simple thing.

Here is our $500 bounty for this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28129829

... and no, I don't want to install an extension. This should be built into the browser.

but but but, you have "SIX FUN SEASONAL COLORWAYS" !!

I know you don’t want to install an extension but for the benefit of others, my solution was to install the Copy as Markdown extension¹ which provides all tabs in current window as a list of Markdown links. It suits me because I often like to take notes and save them as Markdown – as well as providing a backup list of open tabs (one list per window).

¹ https://github.com/yorkxin/copy-as-markdown

I just did the update with about 20 tabs open. They all restored fine but they were sort of "unloaded". That didn't cause any issues for me though.

Successfully updated on Linux Mint through Apt and experienced no issues with 359 tabs.

I expect tabs to be unloaded (I start and stop Firefox frequently). I may not be seeing what you mention.

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