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Firefox auto-resetting Passwords, Logins, and history

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This has happened now on two different machines, with two different accounts that have had no carryover between them.

Every few months, for no reason at all, firefox will just "forget" every login. It will forget all page history. It will remember what add-ons are present and will keep the bookmarks, but everything else? Gone.

It is incredibly frustrating and this current account (my father's) is only a month or two old, having set it up on his new computer.

Yes, it does happen in safe mode, and no, factory resetting Firefox is the exact opposite of what we want to happen.

This has happened now on two different machines, with two different accounts that have had no carryover between them. Every few months, for no reason at all, firefox will just "forget" every login. It will forget all page history. It will remember what add-ons are present and will keep the bookmarks, but everything else? Gone. It is incredibly frustrating and this current account (my father's) is only a month or two old, having set it up on his new computer. Yes, it does happen in safe mode, and no, factory resetting Firefox is the exact opposite of what we want to happen.

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It doesn't look like I can edit, but I know other people seem to have this problem but their solutions do not apply to either of us.