471961 - Session Restore is not restoring anything when Firefox is quit nicely.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 398817

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[David Caldwell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090102 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090102 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre

I have the "Show my windows and tabs from last time" option selected in the preferences, but when I close FireFox (Shiretoko) the sessionstore.js file gets deleted from my profile. So when I start FireFox up I get just a blank window and not my last set of tabs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a window
2. Quit Firefox
3. Launch Firefox
Actual Results:  
I get a blank window.

Expected Results:  
I want my last set of windows and tabs.

I've been working around this my manually copying the sessionstore.js file somewhere before I quit Firefox. It appears to be updated correctly (all my newest tabs and windows are in there). But when I select "quit" or let Firefox restart to update itself or some plugins the file gets deleted.

Interestingly, when I copy the sessionstore.js back after Firefox has quit and relaunched, it tells me that my browser was shutdown unexpectedly.

If I force quit Firefox then it (perhaps obviously) doesn't delete the file and so I get my windows back the next time it launches.

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

Please reopen this bug if you're not having Shiretoko clear your private data at shutdown (of which sessionstore.js is part).