1223380 - "Forget" loses all my browser tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1094736

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[spamcombobulator]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151029151421

Steps to reproduce:

With a previously restored browser session freshly opened, I visited a new website that I then wanted to be gone from my history. So while on the website's tab, I clicked "forget" and selected "5 mins". 


Actual results:

There was no warning of the potential consequences. A new browser session was opened, having just a single tab. There was no session restore available to undo the lost tabs. This led to user frustration, wailing and gnashing of teeth!


Expected results:

I was expecting all browsing done in the last 5 minutes to be deleted, and the present tab to be closed. I would expect to at least be warned if this would lose any tabs still open (though not necessarily loaded) from previous sessions long ago. 

A "forget this tab" option would be more useful.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Attachment: Firefox 42 Forget button menu.png

(In reply to spamcombobulator from comment #0)
> There was no warning of the potential consequences.

It's the very first item under “Proceeding will:”.