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[Jacqualine Henington]

Forthe last two upgrades of Firefox (108.0.2 currently) I've seen strange behavior in the "Window" menu where open windows are missing, and the number of windows shown changes depending on which Firefox window is currently in the foreground. It's frustrating because I have to jump from window to window to have the menu show whichever window I'm looking for.

I think it is worse with 108.0.2. The previous version would reorder the windows pull down menu randomly. This current version reorders and deletes windows. If I go to history and select restore recently closed windows, they come back until I select one of the windows and then they disappear again.

I seem to have found a work around. I'm running an older MacBook Pro, if you set a hot corner ---system preferences --- desktop & screen saver --- hot corners --- then set one corner to --- application windows, when you run the cursor to that corner all your windows come up and you can then select the one you want. Not what I'm used to, but I'll adapt. Hope this helps!

I've been having the same problem running macOS 10.14.6 on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro, and it seems to be getting worse with each Firefox "upgrade". Fortunately, after reading Kipuka's workaround I tried a variation of it that is working for me. Grabbing the top of a window and moving it up as if trying to move it off the screen will show all windows for any open programs, including the missing Firefox windows. (Essentially the same as his hot corner suggestion.) The fact that the windows are missing in the Firefox window menu is still a pain, but this at least lets you find them.

The seems to be no pattern to which windows are missing. The issue appears to be random, with no regard to whether the windows are regular/private, web page vs. a built-in page vs. a blank page, or on the same display vs. on a different display? (As far as the latter, I'm only using one display.) Some of them disappear regardless.

There is a big difference between open windows not being visible on the menu and windows getting closed and needing to be reopened from the History menu. Firefox shouldn't close windows on its own (although one-tab windows launched by a website script -- popup windows -- do have permission to close themselves).

If we focus on the open windows that are not listed on the menu, is there any pattern to which windows are missing? For example, does it seem to matter whether it is regular/private, a web page vs. a built-in page vs. a blank page, or on the same display vs. on a different display?

Regarding menu order, Firefox 108 surrendered menu ordering to Mac OS in order to add support for "Tile Window to Left/Right of Screen" and "Move to [SCREEN]". Because Firefox sets the window title to the tab (page) title, a windows will move around the menu as you move between pages. I created an add-on to try to help with stabilizing the order, but as a Windows user, I can't test/debug it fully. If you want to take a look: -number-windows/

I can't see a distinct pattern to how windows disappear from the "Window" menu, but if I go back to the first window that I opened on the start of Firefox it will typically show me all subsequent windows. The sequencing of those windows is not stable, shuffling them around possibly based on last used. Some windows will show a few other windows, some more, with no consistency that I've yet found.

I believe this change in 108 is likely the cause of the problem. I'm running an older OS (10.13) because of software compatibility issues, but hope to upgrade in the coming months. Perhaps that will fix the problem, but for this user the erratic listings of the menu are a real aggravation.

Before anyone else wastes their time trying, I attempted to regress my Firefox to 107 to test if the window problem went away, but I would have had to create a new profile. I now plan to migrate to another browser for the time being until this problem is resolved.

I'm also running IOS 10.13. In the Firefox version just prior to this current one the drop down would reorder randomly, all windows being displayed in the drop down. This current version 108.0.2, does not display all the open windows in the drop down. The private windows are not listed in the drop down, but I've discovered a couple others that are not private that are also not in the drop down. One window, if I change to another tab will appear in the drop down, back to the other tab, it 'disappears' again. And I just discovered another non-private window that is not in the drop down. The best way I've found to get to the windows, is through the hot corner trick mentioned in an earlier post. Or shrinking windows until I can see the one I want, yet not a great solution. jscher2000, thanks for replying to Phil and I, I appreciate it!

Another possible workaround while waiting for a fix, I went into Mission Control and mapped the right control key to show all windows. I'm not a fan of hot corners, and I don't really use the right control button, so this seems like a decent compromise. I can't see tabs within each window, but I group tabs into similar themed windows, so this should help me get through how ever long it takes developers to figure out how to correct the issue.

Recently notified of Firefox update, and it promised open windows and tabs would be restored. They weren't. I had all kinds of things open, and now lost. Mozilla should not promise things they can't deliver. If they had said save and close all windows first, I would have done that!

The latest "update" (last night) erased over three hundred tabs in one window without any way to restore any of them while restoring three tabs in three other windows that I didn't care about. Great job.

Version 124.0.1 and it is still happening, I had two windows and both with multiple tabs and after the restart only one window came back and I lost the other with around 100 open tabs for my research. Seriuosly?

The company I work for uses Chrome and I have never had this issue before. Even if I have 5 windows and numerous open tabs in them.. they all come back after a Chrome update or automatic system restart.

I still have been trying to stick with Firefox as I like it... but I slowly lose my patience and consider to use Chrome... Mozilla developers, please make some progress with this issue. You may lose your core users who have been stiking with Firefox for ages now.

If you haven't already, you can select on the Settings page to have Firefox notify you about available updates and prompt you to install or delay the update. I've used that setting forever. There is a problem on Linux, though, because the package manager may block that setting and replace the built-in update mechanism. I don't have a good solution for that situation.

Maybe it would work to bookmark all the open tabs, but of course, this would create an on-disk record of the open tabs. (To bookmark all tabs in the current window, press Ctrl+Shift+D or on Mac, Command+Shift+D.) This would not include the back-forward history, just the latest URL from that tab. After the restart, you can right-click the folder of bookmarks and Open All Bookmarks to reload those pages in new tabs.

This has also happened to me in Firefox version 124.0.2. Firefox Menu > History > Manage History has stored all the tabs, but weeding out the open tabs from all the closed tabs is challenging. Recently closed tabs doesn't help in my case since many of the open tabs were not so recent.

Instead of closing Firefox with the X, it was suggested in a Mozilla Support thread from 2021 to use the Firefox Menu > Exit option instead. I tried this and the tabs I had open appeard when I reopened Firefox.

I also have this problem about restore last tabs today. For example, when I write this comment now, I close the Firefox window on this tab. When I open Firefox again, I expect it to open on the last browsed tab according to the settings. But it opens on tabs that were browsed a few hours ago. In the meantime, I have closed various tabs and opened newer tabs, but Firefox does not work on the latest changes.

That's very annoying. Firefox normally updates the session history file (recovery.jsonlz4) as often as every 15 seconds while you are browsing. Changes made more than 15 seconds before you closed the window should be reflected in the file when you restore the window.

Now, some users occasionally report that the file gets updated normally for a certain period of time and then completely stops getting updated. If I recall correctly, it seems to be related to memory, but don't know whether anyone has tracked down what can cause that, whether it's related to the number of tabs open, the amount of free memory on the computer at the time, etc.

As a backup, you could consider using an add-on like Tab Session Manager that can either automatically or on request store a list of the URLs of the active tabs for later restoration. It doesn't capture the full back-forward history of each tab like Firefox does, but it still might be worth it to recover missing tabs in situations where Firefox's built-in feature fails you. Here's a link to learn more:

Hello sir jscher2000 and thank you for your help. interval set was on 15000, so it can't be issue for Firefox...

Today, I moved left-right number of tabs to test Firefox. I closed some tabs to see if reducing the extra tabs would fix this problem, Firefox changes 4-5 tabs and stops again...When I check from my Firefox account, that's always syncing...Even I click on (Sync now) to update the tabs but Firefox does not update and that problem was not fixed.

.According to your opinion, this problem may be caused by low system memory. Windows Drives Is 4.53GB free of 39 GB.

My Firefox version : 115.9.1esr(Extended Support Release)(32-bit) only this version can installed on my Windows 7

Sometimes Firefox crashes and the page closes, this message appears :

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. The old Firefox process must be closed to open a new window.

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