Closed Bug 1236220 Opened 10 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Firefox sometimes forgets open tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Version:
43 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: post+mozilla, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: dataloss)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 Iceweasel/43.0.2 Build ID: 20151228074541 Steps to reproduce: I have set up Firefox to always restore the previous tabs when it starts. I heavily rely on this feature, keeping tabs open to remind me of things I still wanted to look at. A while ago (not more than two months), Firefox started to sometimes forget the tabs that I had opened: I would close Firefox (or sometimes I would find it closed and be surprised, since I didn't want to close it, maybe I accidentally clicked the "X" in the corner), then I would start it again. Actual results: Only my homepage opened. Expected results: Instead, it should have opened all the tabs I had open previously. This is a rather bad bug, since it result in data loss: Right now, I know I had three tabs open that I cared about for later, but I can only remember two of them. I can just hope the tab I can't remember was not too important... Sorry for the vague description, I am unable to reproduce the problem. It now happened around 3 times within the last month. From the description, this sounds a lot like bug #747560. I am using the Debian Iceweasel package.
Component: Untriaged → Session Restore
Keywords: dataloss
This just happened again. I had >20 tabs open, and had to reboot the machine. They are all gone now. I'll have a fun time remembering what they were all about...
I since then switched from Iceweasel to the official Firefox builds, but just recently (with Firefox 44), this happened again.
Ralf, when it has done this, it always forgets _all_ tabs, correct?
Severity: normal → critical
Flags: needinfo?(post+mozilla)
Correct. I have not seen this happen in the last two months (where for the last ~4 weeks, I used the Debian Firefox, and before that, the upstream one) -- but this was a rare bug to start with...
Flags: needinfo?(post+mozilla)
Thanks for the update. Please update the bug if you see the problem again.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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