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After (what I presume was) an update I lost all of my tab groups I had made. I had a bunch of school stuff and creative writing stuff in there and would love to recover them if possible. I tried to check my proflies and opened them in a new tab, but all the groups were still missing in them.

Two days ago I closed FF and went to bed. I opened it the next morning and lost about 20 tabs. Ever since then, every time I restart FF, I lose all tabs except for one default tab.

TLDR: 1. "restore previous session" is not available. 2. Toggling Settings/Home and Startup does nothing. 3. Update? My FF automatically updates. 4. "about:sessionrestore" finds nothing,

1. FF help said I could go into History and click "Restore Previous Session" but that option doesn't exist. All I can do is look at History and see lists for today, yesterday, last 7 days etc.

2. Another advisory suggested Settings, Home and Startup, select "Open previous windows and tabs". but it was already selected. So I switched it off, restarted FF and then switched it back on. I still lose all tabs every time I restart FF.

3. Another advisory suggested, checking for updates. My FF automatically updates.

4. I tried "about:sessionrestore" It returns with the heading: "Sorry. We’re having trouble getting your pages back." Restore session is greyed out and "View previous tabs" produces an empty list. I've tried it a few times now, identical result.

Thanks for any help. Cheers, Andrew

Despite re-installing Firefox sidebar is still missing (I spent 3 full days trying to fix it before re-installing). I also can't obtain another tab - I'm restricted just to the one page I'm currently using

I am trying to use the tabs setting to always open a new window when clicking on a link, especially from search results. It seems no matter which setting I chose in "Tabs and Browsing" they Never open in a new tab, I even tried opening in a new Window but that doesn't work either. What always happens is the new site overwrites the window with its site, and some sites even make it so you cannot go back to the results of your search. As if the site replaced the left Arrow to go back with Nul or something that greys it out. I guess they don't want you to go to a different site to check out something unless you type your search in all over again.

How do I override clicking on a search result link to always go to a new tab so I can easily go back to the search results. Currently I always have to remember to right click on the link as tell it to open in a new Tab. I would expect this from Chrome as they want you to buy from their customers. But FireFox should be better for the consumer/person and not be better for some corporation. Thanks, Bill

After an update (seemingly, I did not run 'sudo pacman -Syu'), the tabs have changed in look and to be frank i find the new layout ugly. How do I turn it back? Attached is a photo of the new tab groups, i couldn't get one of the circular tabs.

Noticed that this shortcut to open recently closed tabs is not operating with the vertical tabs option turned on. Help/fix would just be this shortcut being accounted for in the next patch with vertical tabs.

After recent updates there is a line in my open tabs list, currently below the first five open tabs. Why is it there? How can I make it go away? I'm using MacOS 11.7.11, Firefox 158.0.

This has been an occasional problem for a month or so. When I start Firefox, perhaps one in three times, it opens all the tabs from the previous session. Particularly disconcerting is that it is opening sites with passwords from earlier sessions.

I hoped that the next iteration of Firefox would solve the problem, but it has continued with Firefox 158.0.

I have changed my settings more than once, and then changed them back, without result.

I am running Linux Mint with Cinnamon.

Thank you.

See title. On ultra-wide, I would use split view with 4 or 5 tabs regularly if it was available. Please consider adding that function. Also, please add a dark mode to your support site.

I am wondering if there is a setting somewhere in Firefox to automatically close tabs after a certain length of time or after there are a certain number of tabs open. I did not close Firefox. I was working on a text document in TextEdit and when I returned to Firefox, all of my tabs were gone! How can I deisable that if there is such a setting? This is a very vexing problem. Please advise. Please forward this to a supervisor for a quick and complete response. The representative I chatted with earlier forwarded my inquiry to Apple Support for an expensive subscription, which I do not want. Thank you.

Robert Beitz

Sorry if this problem have already solved before.

After update 158, I've noticed change of closing tabs when it involve unloaded and unopened tabs. I'll try my best to explain: Pre-update 158 - For example, I have 3 tabs. Left-hand is an unopened tab with coloured icon and no image preview. Middle one is I'm currently on. Right-hand is has been opened but I unloaded it; it has grey icon. When I close the current tab, the browser moves to tab on the right and loads it. This is usual behaviour since I started using Firefox long time ago.

After update 158 - Same example as above but when I close the current tab, the browser moves to one on the left instead.

This change means that the browser no longer moves to right-hand tabs if they're unloaded unless if I choose manually. Also, if I have 4 tabs but #1 is unopened with coloured icon, #2 is unloaded with grey icon, #3 is current tab and #4 is unloaded with grey icon. If I close the current tab, #3, it goes to #1 automatically.

So is there something in config to restore back to previous behaviour?

Bonjour, j'ai perdu beaucoup de temps aujourd'hui car mes onglets ont disparu sans savoir pourquoi. Je les ai tous recréé mais en fermant Firefox, les onglets ont de nouveau disparu. Qu'est ce qui se passe? c'est très irritant. L'option de conserver les onglets est activée, mais il semble que votre browser est complétement instable en ce moment. Pouvez vous m'orienter rapidement vers une solution? c'est vraiment pénible comme problème

I think this started 1 or 2 days ago, after a Firefox update. When clicking on a bookmark and using "open in new tab", anew tab isn't opened. The wanted bookmark page just replaces the earlier screen, and no new tab is made.