592155 - Add global store functionality to session store

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 899213

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Right now the session store only will allow adding arbitrary data to individual windows or tabs... there's no API to add global arbitrary data to the session store.

While global data can be stored in a pref or on disk, for some use cases it is beneficial to have the lifetime of this data tied to the lifetime of the session data, so if a user chooses to start afresh without the restored session data, this global data store will also be reset.

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

We're not going to hold the entire Firefox 4 release for any change without some very significant use-cases. Canceling blocking request. Re-request with *why* you need this change please :)

Also, I started on this when first approaching better tabcandy integration. However, I ended up going down a different route, because tabcandy needed tighter integration, and also wanted to avoid constant de/serialization of the data.

Comment 2

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Sorry, didn't know this bug existed, yet. The work will happen in bug 899213.