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2005-09-18

02:42:11, Categories: Semantic Web

Recovering Mozilla history

What do you do if your browser freezes with 15+ tabs open in some 4 windows and refuses to come back to its senses?

Browsing through Mozilla history window to find them might be tiresome.

Easy!

1. Write down the titles of open pages - You may only see a small part of the title but do this anyway.

2. Restart browser.

3. Export history as RDF (instructions here).

4. Open RDF file in any text editor, search this file for all title fragments you wrote down and open the URLs in the browser.

5. Bookmarks -> Bookmark this group of tabs - to never loose them again.

Notes:

You could search in Mozilla History, but when in need to locate 15+ URLs it is much easier to do a search in text editor than go back and forward in the History UI search window.

You could also write a script to automate the process or write your own history browsers based on the RDF file. In this case that is not necessary as my goal was to get these tabs back with minimum effort.

About title fragments - 'dowh' may not mean much to me, but when searching in history it provides with one distinct and meaningful match - dowhatimean.net » Blog Archive » RDF and web applications:

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Comment from: Nikolas Coukouma [Visitor] · http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=atrustheotaku

Isn't this exactly what Session Saver extension handles so well?

Permalink 2005-09-18 @ 05:37

Comment from: Anonymous [Visitor]

If using Firefox, you might want to try the SessionSaver extension.

Permalink 2005-09-18 @ 06:11

Comment from: napalmEye [Visitor]

Why don't you use SessionSaver extension? ;)

Permalink 2005-09-18 @ 12:10

Comment from: paolo [Visitor] · http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/

I wanted to write the same ;-)
sessionsaver and you will never ever loose your opened tabs!

Permalink 2005-09-23 @ 19:26

Comment from: Mr. Nova [Visitor]

The Opera browser automatically saves any open sessions you have when you close it out, whether it's you closing it or a crash.

You can also save groups of pages called sessions and give them names, open them all at once.

You can also do this with a group of bookmarks all contained in the same folder.

Got a version for just about every OS on Earth, and most cell phones/PDAs as well.

Best browser out there. Hands down.

Permalink 2006-01-24 @ 16:19

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