Why did "Well, this is embarrassing" window open when no saved tabs?

No saved tabs when I closed yesterday, opened today:
"Well, this is embarrassing. Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. ..." window appeared but only "Window 1" & "about:blank" (my preferred opening) on the list.
-- i.e. there were no tabs to recover.
Why? Is there a problem?

See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes
If you have submitted Breakpad crash reports then post the IDs of one or more Breakpad crash reports (bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx). 
You can find the IDs of the submitted crash reports on the about:crashes page. 
You can open the about:crashes page via the location bar, like you open a website.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad (Mozilla Crash Reporter)

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See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
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Add-ons: {0538E3E3-7E9B-4d49-8831-A227C80A7AD3}:0.9.10.2, :3.63,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.3
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CrashTime: 1274739017
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email: [email protected]
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1270304892
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 2699
StartupTime: 1274738966
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.6.3
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845681
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/update-firefox-latest-version#os=mac&browser=fx21 Update Firefox to the latest version]
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