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I "unpinned" some tabs, then closed them, closed Firefox, and relaunched. All of the "unpinned" tabs reload agin. How do I stop that from happening?

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jrsy117
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I "unpinned" some tabs, then closed them, closed Firefox, and relaunched. All of the "unpinned" tabs that I deleted reload again. How do I stop that from happening?

I "unpinned" some tabs, then closed them, closed Firefox, and relaunched. All of the "unpinned" tabs that I deleted reload again. How do I stop that from happening?

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Places Maintenance {web link} Allows to run Maintenance tasks on the database that drives Places, the bookmarks and history module behind Firefox.

cor-el
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Try to give Firefox more time (20 seconds or more) before closing to allow Firefox to update the sessions files in the sessionstore-backups folder and ensure a proper sessionstore.js to get created.

You can find these files in the sessionstore-backups folder: 

previous.js (cleanBackup: copy of sessionstore.js from previous session that was loaded successfully)
recovery.js (latest version of the sessionstore written during runtime)
recovery.bak (previous version of the sessionstore written during runtime)
upgrade.js-<build_id> (backup created during an upgrade of Firefox)

You can copy a file from the sessionstore-backups folder to the main profile and rename the file to sessionstore.js to replace the current file (make a backup copy of the current sessionstore.js).

You can use this button to go to the current Firefox profile folder: