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tapetv
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Open tabs keep disappearing...

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Hi there: once every while, I fire up Firefox and all open tabs from last session are gone. By now, I have a shortcut to the sessionstore-backups-folder replace the sessionstore.jsonlz4-file to fix it. But it is of course frustrating ](*,)
I first thought this error might have to do with me being signed in (sync-error or something) but it keeps happening even when I'm not logged in.

Any ideas to finally fix this for good?
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Make sure you Quit Firefox with all windows still open to make session restore work properly.
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dickvl wrote:Make sure you Quit Firefox with all windows still open to make session restore work properly.
Meaning: quitting Firefox manually before powering off instead of letting the Shut Down-process taking care of it as I normally do on my Mac (Catalina)?
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Hi,
Shutting down the computer before Firefox has completed it's back ups will cause errors & corruption to the files.
No back up will be available 'coz the power is turned OFF beforehand.

Give Firefox a couple of Minutes or so to complete it's house work.
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I thought with 'reopen windows when logging in' was ticked, the OS would take care of that. And it usually does work.
But if that's what it takes to avoid restoring tabs manually, I'm happy to quit Firefox manually!
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