Closed Bug 1273163 Opened 9 years ago Closed 7 years ago

When firefox crashes, all tab data is lost

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

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

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: stephen.brikiatis, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: dataloss)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0 Build ID: 20160502172042 Steps to reproduce: Close Firefox in an unexpected way, be it a crash or the system suddenly turning it Actual results: When it is re opened the system restore will have two blank tabs. Expected results: The program should restore all tabs that were in the previous session.
Component: Untriaged → Session Restore
I have the same problem with FF v45.0.2. The only workaround I found is to copy "sessionstore-backups\recovery.bak" to ..\sessionstore.js just after the cash. However in my case FF starts with just one empty tab.
Similar to bug #1236220.
(In reply to stephen.brikiatis from comment #0) > Close Firefox in an unexpected way, be it a crash or the system suddenly > turning it. When it is re opened the system restore will have two blank tabs. Stephen, is this 100% reproducible for you? Did it happen in any prior versions?
Severity: normal → critical
Flags: needinfo?(stephen.brikiatis)
Keywords: dataloss

2019-03-06

This bug is part of a group of bugs which have had an open needinfo for at least 12 weeks.

The request for information has not been answered, and we can't move forward on the bug so we are closing it.

If the defect is still present, please reopen this bug with an updated report.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Flags: needinfo?(stephen.brikiatis)
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