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Pinned tabs lost when all non-private windows are closed after opening a private window

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Magnusmaster
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Ever since the update to Firefox 20 I've lost count of the times a pinned tab is lost after using private browsing. If I open a private browsing window, then close all non-private windows, the next time I open a non-private window I lost the pinned tab, even after closing all Firefox windows and restarting the browser again. Can this be fixed?

Ever since the update to Firefox 20 I've lost count of the times a pinned tab is lost after using private browsing. If I open a private browsing window, then close all non-private windows, the next time I open a non-private window I lost the pinned tab, even after closing all Firefox windows and restarting the browser again. Can this be fixed?

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cor-el
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Pinned tabs are connected to a specific window (each window can has its own set of pinned tabs), so if you close a window then you lose the tabs that you have pinned in it and only restoring this closed window could bring them back.

If you really want to close open non-private windows then you will have to restore pinned tabs manually, e.g. by storing them in a bookmarks folder and opening them all in tabs via a middle-click on this folder and change them once again to pinned tabs.

Modified by cor-el