1149267 - "Show my windows and tabs from last time" remembers the final closed tab, after the user had intended to close it (and the window closed).

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 492383

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Prash]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150320202338

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable the "Show my windows and tabs from last time" option.
2. Open some web pages in multiple tabs.
3. Close every tab, either with the mouse or Ctrl-W (closing the last tab will exit Firefox)
4. Start Firefox


Actual results:

The last tab is remembered and restored.


Expected results:

An empty tab page should be displayed. The last tab was closed and therefore should be forgotten.

Comment 1

[kenkon]

[bugday-20150406]

You can get more or less your desired behavior by setting browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false in about:config.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Reproduced with firefox-37.0.1.en-US.linux64.

Comment 3

[Ruffin]

@[e-mail] If I understand what closeWindowWithLastTab does, I don't believe that's the problem here. Once the last window is explicitly closed, it should not be reopened when Firefox is reopened later. I should not be forced to quit Firefox explicitly after closing the last tab to dodge this bug.

1.) If I hit File >>> Exit when I have one tab in one window open, I'd expect that to reopen.
2.) If I hit Ctrl-W when I have one tab in one window open, and Firefox quits (as it should), I don't expect to see that window's content again when Firefox is restarted.

As Prash points out, in case 2.), "The last tab was closed and therefore should be forgotten".

Comment 4

[Christian Stadelmann]

I can confirm this issue on FF 44 on Linux.

@Ruffin: Please don't put email addresses here, spam bots will find them.

Comment 5

[moz-nuc]

There is related unwanted last tab restoration behaviour when launching Firefox with a URL parameter, regardless of the value of closeWindowWithLastTab; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268969 (it doesn't seem to be possible for me to add this to the "see also" bug list).

Comment 7

[cirelli94]

I totally agree with @Ruffin, I also think this could be a possible privacy problem.
I don't think a user expect that the last closed tab will be reopened.
The default behaviour should be that Firefox will reopen with a new empty tab.