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I have Firefox installed on multiple devices and most/all of them don't keep sessions or browsing history

I noticed that these files are updated while browser is open and get deleted once browser is closed:

• sessionstore-backups/recovery.baklz4
• sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4

No other files are related to sessions

I have "Open previous windows and tabs" checked

Installations:

• Windows 10
• Debian 12
• Debian 13 (Firefox 148.0 Snap)

On Firefox for Android, this issue doesn't happen, I can even see the whole browsing history including history lost on PC installations

Hi!

What goes wrong with a simple tracking request on the UPS website? Try my actual case with the following link: https://www.ups.com/track?tracknum=1ZA06B736800244687&loc=fi_FI&requester=QUIC%2F/ The response in Finnish is always: "Emme voi suorittaa seurantapyyntöäsi tällä hetkellä. Yritä myöhemmin uudelleen." A quick and dirty translation is: "We cannot execute your request right now. Try again later".

This is an everlasting problem. But try the exactly same link on Chrome or Edge, and it works fine.

Best regards, Tom Lindeman Helsinki, Finland [edited email from public community support forum]

I have an idea for improvement of the mozilla browser, but I don't want to send it online here. So can you please give an email address and I will send it there instead(?).

Hi, I don't understand why I can't access the Accor Hotels website using my preferred browser, Firefox. I'm using an iMac with OS Catalina v 10.15.7 and Firefox 147.0.1 (64 bit)

I can access the site using Chrome. Chrome version is 'This computer is using macOS 10.15. Learn more Version 128.0.6613.138 (Official Build) (x86_64)'

I've checked every Firefox setting I can think of, passwords etc. but the site freezes. Please see attached screenshot. Accor tech support say they have no problem at their end.

This is the link to Accor - https://login.accor.com/as/authorization.oauth2?client_id=all.accor&response_type=code&persistent=yes&accorregister=true&origin=LOGIN&request=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJjbGllbnRfaWQiOiJhbGwuYWNjb3IiLCJyZXNwb25zZV90eXBlIjoiY29kZSIsInJlZGlyZWN0X3VyaSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYWxsLmFjY29yLmNvbS9sb3lhbHR5LWZ1bm5lbC9jaGVjay1hdXRoZW50Lmh0bWw_YXBwSWQ9YWxsLmFjY29yIiwic2NvcGUiOiJvcGVuaWQgQVBJV0VCLlVTRVIuQUxMIEFQU1IuQUxMIiwidWlfbG9jYWxlcyI6ImVuIiwic3RhdGUiOiI1ZjcwNzA5NjdiNWVkODBjYWZmOGY5Iiwibm9uY2UiOiJjNmNhYzBlMzQ4Zjk1NmNlMGQxNWE2IiwiZXhwIjoxNzY5MjY0NTMyLCJpYXQiOjE3NjkyNjI3MzJ9.DrUJZC2GmtZoLJAWv7lYORQij3C0tcwq4bGNezAINae8_qSHgs4hOKKiq0Cso6sJnhODcMeyrMOP-v1uZBR4Lt0NMpW-8CmprMoSmtORWrD5lWngZg2_3W4gfWViC_Phkj5tVzxdpMx5UoRWC-zvALjP_PNhE4Ca70UnRnvqDi4LFdOYZm4S52kqn_TBQq2VtSzRlLJZwBwAKUIgQG7fYaLknLXnbTd9zKSGHlwEAeO94Y6o59sQ3fHFWrWqjuJFbEl1MJEPu0tPJREmy4D70LkpV8N3TTMfDNzG0O_eLj4wX9Mipv8Q9jdOoTG8wodT5zXLkL0mRYlcdygo_MacIQ&redirect_site_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fall.accor.com%2Fa%2Fen.html%3Futm_term%3Dmar%26gclid%3DEAIaIQobChMI6r3v44eOkgMV1SV7Bx2bTCqUEAAYASAAEgJojfD_BwE%26utm_campaign%3Dppc-ach-mar-goo-uk-en-pure-mix-sear-%26utm_medium%3Dcpc%26utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_content%3Duk-en-ALL-ALL

Other sites all seem to work ok.

Any ideas pleas on why just this website and how I can access it without having to swap browser?

as title says, what the [expletive] hell is this [expletive], why the [expletive] is it enabled by default and how the [expletive] hell do I get rid of this [expletive] [expletive]

Ok so I usually choose these option to remember history and from time to time delete Browsing & download history and Temporary cached files and pages.

https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2025-06-28-08-45-55-a5277f.png

Note: I have "Open previous window and tabs" ticked in general settings which also has a restore previous session option in the history menu. This brings back previous session with tabs etc as is when I close FF. https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2025-06-28-08-45-51-cf2daf.png

I thought I could automate this on exit but don't think its working right. So I change the option to "use custom settings for history" and tick all three options:

Remember browsing and download history Remember search and form history Clear history when Firefox closes For "Clear history when Firefox closes" I ticked Browsing & download history and Temporary cached files and pages. https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/uploads/images/2025-06-28-08-45-43-b10213.png

The issue is the restore session option is missing and FF opens with all previous tabs gone. I am frankly not even sure what else is missing such as cookies, site data etc. Is this meant to work like so?

I am running an iMac that is about eight years old.This afternoon my Firefox browser was taken over by a "warning" from "MacOS security center" that I should go to THEIR macOS support site to get my system unfrozen. The number they give is 1-877-xxx-xxxx. I cannot get this intruder to go away, even by restarting the computer.

Since 141 update I have constant problems with youtube. Page does not load at all or loads only partially. Icons on sidebar are broken, youtube logo is black. I tried disabling ublock and greasemonkey but it did not help. Refreshing page multiple times and using ctrl+f5 sometimes helps but issue returns often, every few videos/visits. Clearing cookies helps but only for few hours and then issue returns.

Is it related to WebGPU support that was supposed to be added in 141? Can I disable it somehow?

Is it possible to view the contents of two tabs simultaneously? I have been in many situations where it would be very helpful to view two different web pages side-by-side to more easily make comparisons. Opening a new window and viewing them side-by-side is similar but being able to pick two tabs to view in one browser would be a lot faster and easier to control.

I took a look today and I had 237 MB in cookies! This was after clearing the cache of all files. I've only had this (new) machine a couple months.

Short version: Sites have "cookies" from 200kb to as much as 34MB! For many of the sites over 3MB I have no account and have visited them only briefly.

To be clear, I don't care about the space being used. It's trivial. But what the heck is FFox storing and calling it "cookies"? Last I checked, a site was still limited to 4K size cookies and perhaps 50 per domain. So how are we getting to MB+ sized "cookies" per site? Again, the cache was cleared, so what's left aside from trivial cookie files of <4KB?

Desktop; Windows 11; Firefox 139.0.4 64 bit