Restore a Firefox session backed up with to Save My Tabs

README.md

Save My Tabs is a great Firefox extension, because Firefox is great, but crashes a lot (at least mine, with hundreds of tabs).

Unfortunately, Save My Tabs doesn't have any restoration function, so you can copy/paste all URLs yourself, or try this script.

This simple Shell script for Mac OS X will launch Firefox with all URLs present in the backup file you pass as parameter:

./restore-savemytabs.sh opentabs--20160913-1900.txt

Tabs groups (I use Simplified Tab Groups since Panorama deprecation), if you use some, are unfortunately not restored.

restore-savemytabs.sh

#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: provide the filename of the Save My Tabs backup"
  exit -1
else
  file="$@"
fi

cat "$file" | cut -d$'\t' -f2 | xargs /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox --new-tab &