678191 - Differences between restore session dialog(after firefox is killed) and about:sessionrestore

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Trif Andrei-Alin[:AlinT]]

Attachment: screenshots of the 2 tabs

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110810 Firefox/8.0a1

I encountered differences between Restore Session Dialog and about:sessionretore.
This issue is always reproducible.
I have to mention that i used a new clean profile everytime I tested it.

Steps to perform:
1.Open a few tab in Firefox
2.Kill the Firefox.exe process from the task manager
3.Open Firefox,and the Restore Session dialog can be seen.Don't click the Restore button,but instead open a new tab and enter in the location bar about:sessionrestore(you will be shown in the dropdown list to switch to the restore session,DON'T CLICK IT,just type about:sessionrestore).

Actual results:
Killing the firefox.exe process quits Firefox and after that openning Firefox again is showing the Restore Session dialog.Openning a new tab and typing about:sessionrestore isn't openning the Restore Session dialog with my tabs and windows, but instead a new session restore dialog.

Expected results.
Typing about:sessionrestore in the second tab should open the Restore session dialog with my tabs and windows that were opened in Firefox before killing it.

Comment 1

[u279076]

Attachment: about:sessionstore

Comment 2

[u279076]

Attachment: Restore Session dialog

Comment 3

[u279076]

Thanks for filing this bug. I'm investigating now to see if I can reproduce it on my end. For future reference, please just attach screenshots directly (don't combine them in a zip); this way we can view them in browser.

Thanks

Comment 4

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

This is an intentional change to reduce our memory footprint. See bug 588506

Comment 5

[u279076]

I'm going to suggest that if about:sessionrestore is already open in a tab we should just switch to it. I see no reason why anyone would ever want to have about:sessionrestore open in more than one tab at the same time. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Comment 6

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

If that's what you'd like to make this bug about, then make it so. The bug as reported though is wontfix.

Comment 7

[u279076]

Filed bug 678224 as an ENHANCEMENT.

Resolving this bug as WONTFIX as per comment 6.