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Is there a way to make it not reset after closing the browser completely..

I noticed twice.. not sure if it resets after a specific time has passed by. I notice it the next day...

the list I started no longer there.

- LS

I thought I would report that after updating Firefox to version 149.0, I had no audio initially in YouTube videos but before I had NO problem with any. For a Firefox video sound example, the video played audio fine at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtOGa5M8AuU. My computer audio worked fine in Windows System. I did not change any YouTube audio setting in the videos. Audio is not blocked. After clicking on more videos and trying to play them, the audio is now getting back to the way it used to work although the audio setting are still the same. This is really weird and has wasted some of my time.

Also, after the Firefox update, now I cannot drag and drop a URL into a Bookmarks folder from the URL bar or whatever it's called after doing a Search with DuckDuckGo or with Google with the "Search and turn off Show search terms in the address bar on results pages option" turned off! I did not change any setting in Firefox to cause this issue.

I now wish I had not have updated Firefox! Please resolve dragging URL issue and hopefully whatever caused the audio problem will not occur again.

The Firefox update of 25 March has obliterated the previous settings I created.

As a lady approaching 80, I am very disappointed, frustrated and annoyed that the settings I laboriously created have been obliterated by this latest update.

So far, it is apparent that areas concerned are the appearance of the screen - location of bookmarks list, font size, task bar and menu bar displays, items included in the tool bar. My chosen browser is DuckDuck but Bing was reinstated. No doubt, further unwanted modifications to the way I wish Firefox to operate have been loaded.

Can this situation be easily corrected or would deinstalling this latest update and reverting to the previous edition of Firefox return my chosen settings to me?

May I say that I am not a computer "nerd" and am unfamiliar with much computer terminology and would, therefore, be grateful for any instructions to be phased in simple terms.

GOW

My computer shut down. I turned it back on, and the browser was completely updated. Nothing! I'm panicking. There's not a single backup anywhere. there is no folder on the desktop «Old Firefox Data» I don't know what to do I tried to restore bookmarks, but the list only showed other browsers.

Version: Mozilla Firefox for Termux 149.0 Device: Termux v. 0.119.0-beta.3 Output: IceWM 4.0.0 + XServer XSDL v. 1.20.53 Log: ``` $ firefox --no-remote --alsa-output-device=default --display=:0 console.error: "Warning: unrecognized command line flag" "-alsa-output-device" Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0] [GFX1-]: CompositorBridgeChild receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=1.68679) Segmentation fault firefox --no-remote --alsa-output-device=default --display=:0 $ echo $? 130 ``` Reinstall tried. Refresh tried. Malware checked - none. Trouble Shooting mode log: ``` $ firefox --safe-mode Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Segmentation fault firefox --safe-mode $ echo $? 139 ``` Without tags start ``` $ firefox Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Bus error firefox $ echo $? 135 ``` Sometimes it can be started but not stable Maybe the problem is: problem with about:sessionrestore, everytime I open it, I can see about:sessionrestore page for short, and when it can start up (sometimes in troubleshooting mode), after choose a option, browser crash, and if I open another tag and close it, browser runs as normal.

I had an issue where my browser disappeared. Here are specifics for my installation.

Name Firefox Version 142.0.1 Build ID 20250827004350 Distribution ID raspberrypios User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0 OS Linux 6.12.62+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.62-1+rpt1~bookworm (2026-01-19)

I relaunched and then restored previous session. After that, I searched open tabs, but when I selected a tab that was reported to be opened,  it was not restored. I went to troubleshooting mode and it worked fine suggesting some issue with an extension.  What, if any logs could I capture to help debug? thanks

Instead of returning directly to my desktop when I close Firefox, this website opens: https://www.websudoku.com/ and I then have to close that before I can see my desktop. I do not want this to happen!!!!! How can I stop it?

Hi, I notice today that Firefox takes a really long time (~30s) to start. The main Firefox frame opens, totally empty, no tabs, nothing... and ~30s after, it starts.

I also notice that it is linked whith the VPN. When the VPN is active : long time, when the VPN is paused, normal start.

I have two computers, same reaction ! The first computer is used every day, so I have the problem on this one since the last update (I suppose).

The second computer has not been used for a week. I started the second computer today , I checked the VPN is active, I notice the first use of Firefox (which was still v148...) was as fast as usual, then Firefox automatically updets to 149.. and restart, and then, same behavior : long time as start.

I tried to go back to version 148, without any better results.

Can you help me please?

Two computer are in W11 up to date, and the VPN is NorthVPN up to date

Regards Alain

I use Venice AI for conversations. Venice AI says it stores my questions and its responses in my browser, not on their servers. I just refreshed my Firefox browser but forgot that Venice AI stores my conversations in my browser. Now my conversations are missing when I go to the Venice AI website. I have a folder on my desktop that is labeled "Old Firefox Data". Can I find my old Venice AI conversations there? If not there, where were they stored?

my browser (firefox) suddenly crashed and all my login data with backup was gone i tried everything but still not working i have the recovery key hopefully restore my account

Lost Mozilla as my default browser after accidentally opening my Facebook page using Edge. The only site that is corrupted is Facebook. All others work properly. I still want Mozilla. Looks like I've created a newer Mozilla account even though I used my password to open my account using my email address and password. My profile name has changed. Wondering if problem occurs because account is shared with my husband and our account is under his name/email. Any suggestions appreciated. We do subscribe to Norton. Thanks.

I am using the latest version of Firefox, and the scroll bar only appears when I place my mouse over it. Then I have to use arrow keys to scroll up and down the page, and it disappears very quickly. Once the scroll bar disappears not even the arrow keys work. Is there a way to turn the scroll bar on so that it is always on and does not disappear? I need to be able to scroll with both the mouse and the arrow keys any time I want to without moving the mouse over to the scroll bar. The disappearing scroll bar is incredibly annoying, and I cannot find a category for it anywhere in the settings menu.

All the application windows I had opened on my Mac, closed due to a security related update. Now Firefox isn't showing any of my tab groups from before and also there's a weird behavior when you click on the Firefox icon, it opens a new window that is small, but when you do file > new window it also opens a window but full sized. I tried creating a new tab group and the second approach of doing file > new window is showing the tab group in the tab group menu, but the window created by doubling clicking the icon doesn't show it.

I rely heavily on tab groups to organize my browser sessions for different tasks and projects. I’ve experienced an issue where, after saving+closing tab groups, they disappear from the “Recent Tab Groups” section after some time. This means (EVERYTHING IS LOST) I have to recreate my organized tabs from scratch each time, which is a "significant workflow disruption" (to say lightly). I understand tab groups are designed to persist across sessions and the hinting fox menu says they should be available for reopening in “Recent Tab Groups” at anytime, but I’m finding this isn’t consistently working (on several devices I use). I’m hoping to understand if there’s a limitation or known issue with how tab groups are stored, and whether there’s a more reliable way to preserve these groupings long term. It’s possible others are running into this behavior too, and I’d appreciate insight into whether this is a known issue or if I’m missing something in how tab groups are managed. Perhaps a future patch could address this persistence problem for long term reliability?

i found this article somewhat related, but not really... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1510334