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not all windows appear in the drop down "window" menu, and a different number when each window is on top. Weird.

Using Mac OSX. Nothing is "full screen." Seems to be nothing to do with if a window is minimized or not.

I have restarted. Recently updated, and lost profile, but recovered it, but lost all my open windows & tabs, so now I have only 5 windows open. Seems to be nothing to do with if a window is minimized (OSX) or not. Needs a better mechanism to save open windows & tabs along with profile data.

Hallo Zusammen,

Meine Lesezeichen sind aufgrund irgendeiner angeblichen Virensoftware komplett verschwunden, auch die Leiste wird nicht mehr angezeigt. Speichern bzw. ein Lesezeichen hinzufügen kann ich auch nicht mehr und geändert habe ich nichts an irgendeiner Software. Der Strom ist ausgefallen, habe neu gestartet und weg waren sie. Neuinstallation und immer noch der gleiche Fehler. Virensoftware ausgeschaltet, trotzdem noch. Profil ist auch nicht geändert. Ich habe alles mögliche versucht, aber ich finde den Fehler nicht.

Liebe Grüße L.

the update seems to think the only bookmarks i have are Explorer. I don't use that. I use Firefox. All my defaults were gone. Nothing functioned, no browsing the net, nothing. I tried troubleshooter when I bumped into it. There were missing tabs in the update...hidden. I finally tried to pull up help on my phone to fix the desktop situation. It recommended restart. nothing. It recommended clearing the data. Nothing changed. It recommended a refresh. All my bloody bookmarks are gone . TOns of work. WTH firefox?

For some reason, after I had already been using my Firefox account, it would not let me open it up. It said I was trying to use an old version and had to update. So, I did. Then I had to change my password because I could not remember what mine was. Now, I have lost all my bookmarks and stored passwords. How can I recover them?

I have my browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo in about:config set to 60 – it's been like this and working fine for several months.

It's set to this high number because I use an assistive technology which creates a fresh pop-up every time I deploy it, and Firefox treats it as a browser window closure when I close the pop-up. Consequently, I can easily rattle through well over 25 window closures in a day.

It's not necessarily that each window contains dozens of tabs and copious data, but nevertheless Firefox still treats it as a window 'within the meaning of the act'!

I just went to reopen one closed window from a couple days ago which did contain many tabs (partly why I closed it in the first place), only to find that the 'recently-closed windows' context menu is now only showing 20 windows (18 of which are the aforementioned pop-up assistive technology windows)

The really vital window that I want to reopen is not showing.

I've double checked in about: config and the browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo is still set to 60 windows; nothing has been altered or reset.

I updated Firefox to 147.0.4 yesterday evening, but the problem existed before I updated Firefox, and is still in evidence since updating.

Two questions:

1) Why is the Recently Closed Windows context menu not showing the full number of windows it has been successfully doing with no problem now for months? I used to have to scroll down to access the full extent of the 60, but they were always there.

2) Why has it arbitrarily changed to 25 windows?

3) [I lied – Our chief weapons etc...] Is there a way that – given about:config still implies that the most recent 60 windows are retrievable – that I can access beyond the 25 windows limit that are currently showing as reopenable?

Thanks very much

(And yes, I already have things like OneTab and Tab Session Manager add-ons, but disabled those just before closing the important window, because I was trying to locate which add-on was draining the CPU. I assumed my 'recently-closed windows' buffer of 60 would suffice while I disabled the add-ons.)

I had to restore my Macbook pro last week due to passwork issue. In bring back my firefox I went to restore my bookmark/book marks toolbar and the bookmarks restored were YEARS old. Does anyone know how to restore most current back up? Doesnt seem to have been save properly on my system/iCloud.

Thank you

bold textWHY did you delete my bookmarks and history including the files when you installed the latest backup??? I did not even realize you had another update until I logged in this morning and my desktop firefox screen was completely changed and all my history and bookmarks are BLANK! I've wasted my entire morning trying to fix this! Your support materials are not working either as there are no bookmarks or history left! Ugh!

When Firefox updated I only created a default profile and could not or did not import bookmarks. They seem lost now. I was offered to import from other browsers like Edge but did not see any way to import from my previous Firefox version. I am unable to find any automatic backups in bookmarkbackups folder.