1219509 - restoring a session while a tab is open will create new instance

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Humphrey P van Polanen Petel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20151015172900

Steps to reproduce:

load thunderbird
click on a link in an email
firefox loads and displays the requested page in the second tab
the first tab display the "restore session" dialog
click on <restore>



Actual results:

firefox closes the "restore session" tab, creates a new instance and restores the previous session

now there are two instances of firefox
(1) an instance with the tab opened as a result of clicking in thunderbird
(2) an instance with the restored session

(see screenshots)


Expected results:

firefox restored the session in the current instance

Comment 1

[Humphrey P van Polanen Petel]

Attachment: Screenshot showing new tab created by clicking in thunderbird

Comment 2

[Humphrey P van Polanen Petel]

Attachment: Screenshot showing restore tab

Comment 3

[Humphrey P van Polanen Petel]

Attachment: Screenshot showing result of restore (two instances)