1310266 - In Firefox 50 when session restore is triggered, pinned tabs are reset

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Chris Beard]

When Firefox restarts and attempts to "session restore" pinned tabs are completely reset (i.e. they don't restore automatically).

What would I expect?  That pinned tabs are treated differently from regular content tabs (i.e. are persistent) given the nature of the content that users are "pinning" to the interface.

Comment 1

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Thanks for filing!

(In reply to Chris Beard from comment #0)
> When Firefox restarts and attempts to "session restore" pinned tabs are
> completely reset (i.e. they don't restore automatically).

What are the values of your 'browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand' and 'browser.sessionstore.restore_pinned_tabs_on_demand' preferences? (You can check those in about:config)

> What would I expect?  That pinned tabs are treated differently from regular
> content tabs (i.e. are persistent) given the nature of the content that
> users are "pinning" to the interface.

Yes, so pinned tabs are _always_ restored when the browser starts, regardless of restoring a previous session or not - they're separate from session (re)store.
In other words: the expected behavior is that pinned tabs are always present upon restart.