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Pinned sites disappear after rebooting on Mac

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morgan.dapilly
morgan.dapilly

Hello community,

I've been moved to MacOS at work and since then, Firefox will not always restore my pinned sites when I start it the next day.

Here is what I do:

  1. Right click a tab, select "Pin Tab"
  2. Go about my day
  3. At the end of the day, I close Firefox by using command Q and shutdown my Mac
  4. The next day, I start Firefox and most of the time, my pins are gone

I did not have this issue on Windows Firefox. I am using MacOS 26.5.2 and Firefox 152.0.4 Firefox says "Your browser is being managed by your organization" in settings. It is a link that can be clicked and the only active policy showing there is "DisableAppUpdate" which I assume is because we have our own tool to manage software updates.

Any idea what could cause my pinned tabs to disappear? I did not really customize the settings so far, I do NOT clear browsing data when exiting FF and the startup option "Open previous windows and tabs" is NOT selected. I have Ecosia and 1Password as plugins.

Any help appreciated, thank you.

Hello community, I've been moved to MacOS at work and since then, Firefox will not always restore my pinned sites when I start it the next day. Here is what I do: # Right click a tab, select "Pin Tab" # Go about my day # At the end of the day, I close Firefox by using command Q and shutdown my Mac # The next day, I start Firefox and most of the time, my pins are gone I did not have this issue on Windows Firefox. I am using MacOS 26.5.2 and Firefox 152.0.4 Firefox says "Your browser is being managed by your organization" in settings. It is a link that can be clicked and the only active policy showing there is "DisableAppUpdate" which I assume is because we have our own tool to manage software updates. Any idea what could cause my pinned tabs to disappear? I did not really customize the settings so far, I do NOT clear browsing data when exiting FF and the startup option "Open previous windows and tabs" is NOT selected. I have Ecosia and 1Password as plugins. Any help appreciated, thank you.

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morgan.dapilly
morgan.dapilly प्रश्नकर्ता

Update on this.

It seems there is a pattern where closing FF either with command+Q or the red X will not bring back pinned tabs.

If I leave FF open and just shutdown my Mac, next time I start up and open FF, the pinned tab will be there.

I'm starting to wonder if this could be another quirk of MacOS but will do more thorough testing.

jbr
jbr
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At least the red "X" definitely is a destructive action, in a way to close out the window (even if it's a last one, the app will still be running empty, but every window is closed — so next time all you get restored is… nothing).

As for CMD+Q that might depend on the global macOS system settings, do you see any difference if you flip this switch one way or another: (attached) ?

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