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Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:55:58PM +0200, tv.debian wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:40:01 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer
> <calestyo@scientia.org> wrote:
> > FYI:
> > 
> > I haven't seen that behaviour after upgrading...  and I do have quite a
> > few tabs in many windows open.
> > Maybe it happens not in all configurations.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Chris.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Something worth investigating: my experience is that this bug appears if
> plasma-integration addon is installed (so likely KDE d-e is used), even if
> it is disabled. When Firefox is launched after the upgrade it expects some
> kind of password login, maybe a Mozilla account or maybe the main password
> vault, but if this password is ignored the Firefox window will be blank, the
> tabs will be forgotten, and the profile corrupt. In my case I couldn't find
> my tabs in the history either, only restoring the profile from backup and
> providing the password on first launch worked around the bug.
> It is repeatable in my case, if I restore the original profile folder
> (~.mozilla) all my tab history is gone again.
> 
> Hope it makes sens and helps.

This sounds like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1901899

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Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs "tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> - 2024-06-12 23:10 +0200
  Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> - 2024-06-13 00:00 +0200

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