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There was a previous thread but i cannot see that any solution was offered. This is so inconvenient that if i cannot solve this i will be obliged to use another browser

Hello, Today i was working on a friend laptop, i was using the private browser while i was downloading a very sensitive files, after closing the private window i couldn’t find the files is that normal? Also, do you think that the files might be found, or they gone for life? Cuz i don’t wanna my friend to maybe find them one day.

I have just spent a long time looking for PDFs I really need and when I closed Firefox it deleted every single PDF in my downloads folder (including ones that weren't downloaded during this session)

The PDFs weren't just opened as a website in Firefox, I've downloaded all of them as permanent files and just opened them in Firefox to confirm they work.

I have set my browser to automatically delete download history so I can't redownload them that way (and I would prefer to keep this setting on), however I have never set Firefox to automatically delete any kind of downloaded file (I don't know if this is even available in settings).

I have also checked my antivirus quarantine just in case, but it is empty so I doubt anything was deleted due to possibility of malware.

Is there any way to prevent Firefox from doing this and is there any way I could restore the files. At this point, I can't even begin to remember everything that I may have lost due to this bug and searching and downloading everything manually again may take me days.

Since the installation of the last 2 beta releases, the folder which I have selected downloads to be placed in is being completely ignored.

In FF settings, I have selected downloads to be saved to my desktop. FF ignores that and downloads all selected downloads to my Documents folder. This is not what I'm after and I didn't have this issue with the Beta versions before.

Are any other Beta users experiencing the same issue with the latset beta release?