lost windows on restart of Firefox
I opened Firefox (V 145.0.2) on my Windows 11 laptop today and noticed that the starting window was the only one open, while I have had at least five windows open for quite some time. The "History|Recently closed windows" option is greyed out. I have closed and restarted Firefox dozens of times and my windows always came back until today. Is that window/tab history stored somewhere where I could recover it?
Thinking about backups of the browser state, I looked for my profile folder and discovered that it is empty - \Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\mozilla is empty except for a file named vpn.moz. I then discovered that my profile seems instead to be stored under \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Mozilla.Firefox_n80bbvh6b1yt2\LocalCache\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles with the folder name e5di8bjy.default-release I now learned that this location is standard for installation via the Microsoft store - the so-called MSIX version. But it is wrong that the "About"profiles" page shows that my profile is in the AppData\Roaming, not the Packages, location. When I try to open that profile folder, I get a message telling me that it is not available on this computer. It seems like the profile info should be aware of the actual location?
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Interesting... Let's start by downloading Firefox from Mozilla, get it installed and see if it will then import what it finds from your MSFirefox version. Make sure to install in different directory than your current install. Just add something to the path.
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I uninstalled the MS version first and then installed the one from Firefox directly. I didn't see any option on where to install it. Backup up and restored my bookmarks but I think that may not have been necessary since my bookmarks are synced across two PCs and two Android devices anyway.
The profiles now reside in the "right" location but the "lost" windows are still gone, of course. The two screwy things I noted in a different question here are still happening:
- when opening a new window (CRTL-N, or using the menu item) I see a new window open with a default new tab for a fraction of a second, and then that is replaced by a set 31 other tabs open from a window that I had open a few weeks ago. This was the precursor of the same window that was the only surviving one when I lost the others mentioned in my original question. The same thing happens on my other PC - same set of 31 tabs are opened in a new window. So whatever is casuing this seemsto be syncing across my windows devices?? - on my laptop my "more troubleshooting information" page does not have a "Refresh Firefox" button nor does the page that opens when you choose to open Firefox in troubleshooting mode. FIrefox on my other PC does have this button. I tried using it and it does not solve the problem of the new window command being hijacked to produce the same old set of tabs.
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