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i was playing on a moded save where i have the creative mod enabled.
after saving i proceeded with loading my unmoded save with the "sync mods with save"-feature as i already did many times.
but this time i tabbed out into my browser and upon closing the game didn't open up again.
when trying to restart it manually i got a steam error because it apparently the game was already running, but it didn't.
i opened up the task manager and, as i expected, didn't find factorio in my running apps.
instead it was under background processes. after i tried to close the process factorio started itself and loaded my unmoded save.

conclusion the game doesn't start itself up after loading a save with the sync mods with save feature when you tab out.
i think that could be considered a bug but i couldn't reproduce it yet.

Thanks for the report. Without a way to reproduce this there's nothing I can do.

Maybe an issue with the steam version.
I'm using the normal version and usually tab to my browser while Factorio restarts, it never glitched out like this.