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All previous viewing taps keeps opening up and end up with 80 or more tabs opened!

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All previous viewing taps keeps opening up and end up with 80 or more tabs opened!

All previous viewing taps keeps opening up and end up with 80 or more tabs opened!

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Are you saying that previous sessions are loading, and that is not what you want?


You may have corrupt sessionstore [v56] sessionstore.jsonlz4 file(s). Delete all sessionstore* files and the sessionstore-backups folder.

Don't delete the files if you need to rescue any data from them, just move them out of the profile folder to some location where Firefox doesn't look for them. You can try to read out their contents using this tool: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/scrounger.html


Type about:support<enter> in the address bar.

Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To its right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.

Windows: Show Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder

Linux: Under the page logo on the left side, you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Directory. To its right press the button Open Directory.

Locate the above file. Then rename or delete it. Restart Firefox.

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If the above does not help,

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-the-home-page