439892 - Conflict between "closing multiple tabs" and "clear private data"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 398817

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Ehsan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

This is not a bug per se but more of a conflict between preferences. Here it goes.

I have set FF to warn me when I'm closing a window with multiple tabs. When I tried to "save and quit" for the first time FF only showed a blank page after restart. I had a look around and found out that I also had selected "browsing history" under "always clear my private date on exit".

There should be a warning for this conflict or maybe you shouldn't have the option to use both at the same time.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools -> Options -> Tabs -> Warn me when closing multiple tabs
2. Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Always clear my private data when I close FF (make sure you have selected "browsing history" in Settings for this)
3. Open multiple tabs
4. Select "save and quit" when asked
5. Restart FF
Actual Results:  
A blank page is loaded

Expected Results:  
Open my previous tabs.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Hopefully the UI will be cleaned up to be more user-friendly with this at some point, but the core complaint of logically conflicting prefs is a dupe of a WONTFIX.