1008614 - Showing tabs from last time doesn't work when history is cleared on exit

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 505548

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140509030227

Steps to reproduce:

In the Options panel:
- Under General, set "When Nightly starts" to "show my windows and tabs from last time".
- Under Privacy set "Nightly will:" to "Use custom settings for history".
- Check "Clear history when Nightly closes".
- Configure clearing history by clicking "Settings" to the right of the option.
- In the new window, check "Browsing and Download History".


Actual results:

When exiting and re-entering Firefox, with the above options, it can't "know" which tabs were open last time because the history has been cleared. Therefore, it goes to the new tab page.


Expected results:

A warning should have come up stating that showing tabs from last time and clearing history on exit can't be used with each other.