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Hi, looking to ask if anyone has experience with restoring Firefox open tabs after closing them accidentally on Android.

Environment: Android 14 Firefox account sync enabled

Things tried: 1. Firefox Sync (The open tab information was promptly cleared away by the sync) 2. Open tab information from a separate desktop Firefox browser with Sync enabled prior (same issue as #1) 3. ADB file access (no permissions) 4. ADB downgrade install to pull old files (failed due to Android 14) 5. Accessing "files:///data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/..." (cannot download files and looking at the timestamps, the SQLite files have probably been overwritten) 6. Firefox debugging (Nothing useful) 7. Searching for a way to get Firefox Sync historical data (doesn't seem available) 8. Mailing customer support (No response)

Things I didn't do prior to this incident (answering the common responses found online): 1. Bookmark my tabs 2. Firefox Collections

Hallo Seid FF die Standard Einstellung für die Desktop Ansicht auf AN standardmässig festgelegt hat ist das Benutzen von Firefox eine QUAL. Der Grund ist die ständige Nötigung, jede Webseite, jeden Link manuell umstellen zu MÜSSEN. Es wird der gewünschte Zustand, Mobileansicht, nicht gespeichert, noch ist er in den Einstellungen ersichtlich. Es ist unbedingt notwendig, die Option Desktop Ansicht zB. An die. Auflösung zu koppeln. Oder ein about:config Parameter zu erstellen. ZZt ist es eine nutzerfeindliche Lösung

LG Lutz

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Dear Mozilla support,

For a while I have the problem that when I want to watch a video fullscreen on a website e.g. youtube, inline video etc. Firefox stops and completely closes. This is only the first time when I play the video. When I re-open the browser I can continue watching the video fullscreen without any problem. I don't receive any error messages.

Attached the specs of my phone and Firefox browser.

Kind regards, Rick

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Any ideas/suggestions?

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