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Bookmark sidebar reset width size after closing Firefox

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After last update, when I open the bookmark sidebar (CTRL+B) and change its size (width), and then close Firefox, sidebar's width change to previous size.

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After last update, when I open the bookmark sidebar (CTRL+B) and change its size (width), and then close Firefox, sidebar's width change to previous size. How to fix it?
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Could be a problem with sessionstore.jsonlz4 as that is where the sidebar state is now saved (xulstore.json is no longer used). Are you disabling session restore somehow?

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Unfortunately, still the same situation...

Modified by M

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Do you at least keep pinned tabs if you close and restart Firefox? You aren't using Private Browsing mode?

 sidebar:
  style:-moz-box-ordinal-group: 1; order: 2; width: 315px;;

I see this data in the current session state if I check this in the Browser Console.

/* Session data - GET/SET State */
ssj = SessionStore.getBrowserState(); // get Current Session State
ssj = prompt("Copy Current Session State to SAVE\n\n Press ESC or click Cancel to ABORT", ssj||"");

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You can look at this tool to inspect a compressed jsonlz4 sessionstore file. This tool works locally, no uploading is done.

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OK, now I understand. Is there any option to fix sidebar width, but WITHOUT opening previous windows and tabs? Just open the browser, load "clear" page, press CTRL+B and thats it.

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Currently not as far as I know. You can consider to clear the history yourself before closing Firefox and let session restore do its thing.

They are considering to save the sidebar state in a pref that acts as a fallback for cases like this, but this won't allow to save the sidebar state per window (bug 1908019).

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