Why Firefox automatically clearing cookies/cache?

Recently Firefox has been automatically clearing all log-ins and passwords on a seemingly random basis.
After closing a browser window, I launched Firefox, and all of my standard logins (emails, homepage, etc.) have been cleared. This has happened 3 times now at seemingly random times. I'll go for weeks without an issue, and at one point open a browser and everything is logged out. This is after a successful close - no error shutdown, same day as other uses without issue.

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