FF4.0.1 keeps resetting my home pages

I have 3 home pages set, and every couple of days FF resets the home page to the first one only. It also loses some of my book marks, and manages to "forget" history and downloads. It is up to date and set to update automatically. I have had to do a couple of backup restores to get everything working as I like it. Not major, just a plain nuisance. The only consolation is that IE 8 and 9 are even worse! It also uninstalls some of my add-ons without notice, despite there being no stated conflicts. Its like it suddenly reverts to when I first installed version 4 and removes every modification made since then! I've had no end of trouble since I installed, then uninstalled, the beta. I have re-installed FF4 several times since, using a backup made prior to installing the beta to replace my add-ons and preferences, until it corrupted some of those files. Apart from this it runs smoothly. does not freeze, though it gets a bit slow at times, but start up is getting slower day by day!

It is possible that there is a problem with the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
Delete the sessionstore.js [2] file and possible sessionstore-##.js [3] files with a number and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
* Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups and open and closed (undo) tabs to get lost, so you will have to create them again (make a note or bookmark them).
See also:
* [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
* [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
* [3] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_profile_files_created

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