534669 - Add SSWindowRestoring Event

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 615394

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Anant Narayanan [:anant]]

A SSTabRestoring notification is currently available, but a 'SSWindowRestoring' event would be useful to have. Using this, extensions can run code when a window has been restored from the session store.

Comment 1

[Anant Narayanan [:anant]]

The workaround that we can use currently, for those interested, would be to listen for 'domwindowopened' and check if the window type is 'navigator:browser'.

Comment 2

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

Do you need to know for each window or just when sessionstore is done in general? I'm assuming you mean the first, but if it's the later we do have an observer topic for that.

Comment 3

[Anant Narayanan [:anant]]

We could check for the "session restore done" notification and iterate through all the open windows to achieve the same end goal. However, I think having a separate notification for when a window has been restored will make code using it a lot cleaner and easier to understand as opposed to the workarounds.

Comment 4

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

I seem to be in the habit of having an idea and implementing it only to realize other people had the idea before me.

Anant - I'm guessing you're long past needing this notification, but I think bug 615394 should cover you.