Closed Bug 561152 Opened 14 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Startup issue: Selectively be able to invoke session restore

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED FIXED
Firefox 4.0

People

(Reporter: limi, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 2 open bugs)

Details

(Keywords: meta)

(Note: this is filed as a meta bug as part of the “Paper Cut” bugs since we assume that there are multiple existing bugs related to this behavior. Please make them block this bug.)

People like the ability to selectively invoke session restore. From Reddit thread: “I generally don’t want it, but sometimes it would be very useful, especially when restarting for updates”

Recommendation:
With the new design, we could put “Restart” and “Restart & Save Session” in the “Exit” combomenu.

The other option would be to offer this whenever *we* ask to restart the browser, ie. “Save Session & Restart” being the default button text and behavior. I can't see why we'd need a button that didn't do a session restore on these forced restarts, though.
Blocks: cuts-startup
No longer blocks: papercuts
Component: General → Session Restore
QA Contact: general → session.restore
Furthermore, we should now be able to "opt in" to a session restore using the new locally hosted home tab as well.
Should this be resolved FIXED?
Depends on: 588482, 593421
I'm using Firefox 9.0.1. If you set the Home Page to "Mozilla Firefox Start Page" on Preferences panel, a button to "Restore Previous Session" is shown at Firefox start. Furthermore, you have the same option at the History menu, called "Restore Previous Session". Is this you have in mind? If so, this issue could be closed.
Yea, let's close this now. This was all in Firefox 4.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 4.0
Bug 664314 would be nice to have.
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