What events trigger this?

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Lookinglasss
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What events trigger this?

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I am trying to solve a confusion regarding times of access to a Win7 machine

Can anyone tell me whether user input (e.g mouse keybd activity) creates/edits this file or if it is solely a FF system file (i.e only FF creates/edits it):

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Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\othoi63x.default\datareporting\aborted-session-ping
In other words is it the result of user activity?
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Re: What events trigger this?

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You can open the file yourself with a generic text editor like notepad or whatever MS systems use now.
Reading the file indicates all sorts of things which should explain what it is.
Appears to be a file of function notations and could be Firefox to system and back or maybe network but just guessing.
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Re: What events trigger this?

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It looks like it is used to determine if the session had aborted, part of the telemetry collected by Mozilla to determine crash rates. It looks like the file appears within a minute of starting up Firefox, some things can trigger a refresh of the file, and it goes away automatically after Firefox shuts down.
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