Closed Bug 510179 Opened 15 years ago Closed 10 years ago

When restoring windows/tabs on start, FireFox shows cached out-of-date pages

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

3.5 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 706970

People

(Reporter: thephilips, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: DUPEME)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

When "Show my windows and tabs from last time" is active, FireFox after start shows cached, out-of-date version of web pages.

This is extremely counter-intuitive: one starts browser anew, but information shown is outdated. Worst part is that the fact is not immediately obvious.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open some dynamic pages in FireFox
2. Activate "Show my windows and tabs from last time" under "Tools - Option - Main - Startup - When FireFox starts".
3. Close FireFox
4. Update the information on the pages by other means (or wait for news site to get new headlines)
5. Open FireFox
Actual Results:  
FireFox displays outdated information

Expected Results:  
FireFox should load and display fresh information in tabs/windows.

P.S. This is one of my most hated Opera /features/ which can't be turned off. Sadly FireFox is affected now too.

P.P.S. I see that many 3.5 features do not have any configuration parameters in about:config. Is that new party line?
This is intentional: For faster startup we display the "windows and tabs from last time" (and not tabs that look slightly like the ones from last time) whenever possible. Nonetheless, we should respect a web page's indication whether it might need refreshing after the restoration.
Whiteboard: DUPEME?
There is no need to break all the work which went into the faster start-up.

It would be more than sufficient to have an option in about:config.
Whiteboard: DUPEME? → DUPEME
Version: unspecified → 3.5 Branch
Tim, do you know what this might be a dupe of?
Flags: needinfo?(ttaubert)
I do!
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(ttaubert)
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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