1258973 - History is not displayed in new tab & timeline when restarting FF with "Show my windows and tabs from last time" option set

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1262094

(Firefox Graveyard :: Activity Streams: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Oiegas [:poiegas], PM for (Ecosystem QA, Services QA, WebCompat QA, Ads QA, and Solo QA teams)]

Attachment: No history display after restart.png

[Affected versions]:
- Firefox 45.0 and up
- Activity Stream 1.0.3
- Activity Stream 1.0.4

[Affected Platforms]:
- All Windows
- All Mac OS
- All Linux

[Prerequisites]:
- Latest Activity Stream add-on version (1.0.4) was previously installed on a profile.  

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Start Firefox browser with the profile where Activity Stream add-on was previously installed.
2. Navigate to a couple of pages in order to have some history stored.
3. Open the FF options page.
4. Change "When Firefox starts" option into "Show my windows and tabs from last time".
5. Open two new tabs, and in one of them open the "Activity Stream Timeline" page.
6. Wait for the pages to display the stored history and after close the browser.
7. Restart the browser with the same profile and observe both the opened pages .

[Expected results]:
The previously stored history is correctly displayed on both pages.

[Actual results]:
Both the pages have no history displayed, just the empty placeholders and activity areas (see attached screenshot).

Comment 1

[Peter deHaan [:pdehaan]]

Filed in GitHub as https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/issues/460

Comment 3

[Peter deHaan [:pdehaan]]

Fixed via https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/pull/514