Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:59:21 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>On 11/10/2017, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 03:40:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:  
>>>It is a brute force kind of thing, and I lost all of my sessions
>>>history, for the last however many years, about which, I am not very
>>>happy.  
>>
>> Do you own a backup of your $HOME or at least of the Firefox
>> default profile made before you refreshed Firefox?
>>  
>
>I did not create a backup before I refreshed firefox, so, I assume
>that I do not have either of the backups.

If you should have any backup of your home, you could copy the history
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*default/places.sqlite to the refreshed profile,
see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite .