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firefox randomly restarts a few times a day. no error no. no crash report. and not able to restore tabs.

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ton_wittenberg
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so this happens a few times a day. my firefox randomly restarts and all tabs are gone. no error no notification nothing. it also happens in safe mode. i already tryed to "refresh" firefox that did not fix the issue. my firefox is up to date. im on windows 10 which is als up to date. please advise cause its driving me crazy to lose my tabs every few hours..

so this happens a few times a day. my firefox randomly restarts and all tabs are gone. no error no notification nothing. it also happens in safe mode. i already tryed to "refresh" firefox that did not fix the issue. my firefox is up to date. im on windows 10 which is als up to date. please advise cause its driving me crazy to lose my tabs every few hours..

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FredMcD
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version?cache=no Did you update Firefox to the latest version?

Version 87.0, first offered to Release channel users on March 23, 2021 Version 88.0, first offered to Release channel users on April 19, 2021 Version 88.0.1, first offered to Release channel users on May 5, 2021


Use these links to create a new profile. Use this new profile as is. Is the problem still there?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-run-firefox-when-profile-missing-inaccessible

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Navigating_to_the_profile_folder

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles


Type about:profiles<enter> in the address bar.