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Why are all my open tabs (in regular mode) deleted when I close down another Firefox window in Private mode?

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- I start by opening firefox in standard mode with a saved session containing a lot of tabs. - Then I open another Firefox window in private mode and close down the standard window. - I close down the private window. - I open firefox again in stadard mode and all my session tabs are gone!

This is getting REALLY frustrating!!! Why the hell would Firefox do that.

- I start by opening firefox in standard mode with a saved session containing a lot of tabs. - Then I open another Firefox window in private mode and close down the standard window. - I close down the private window. - I open firefox again in stadard mode and all my session tabs are gone! This is getting REALLY frustrating!!! Why the hell would Firefox do that.

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hello mail22jk, i cannot replicate that behaviour. could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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hello mail22jk, i cannot replicate that behaviour. could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...