1326092 - Local data loss clobbers synced tabs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Profile Handling, defect)

Description

[(No longer employed by Mozilla) Aaron Klotz]

Firefox for Android 50.1.0
Nexus 7 (2013) Wi-fi running CyanogenMod 13 (December 20, 2016 security update)
Sync configured to sync tabs.

1) I clicked on some links in another app. They were added to my tab queue.
2) When I opened my tab queue, all of my previous tabs were gone. Only the URLs from my tab queue were opened (I assume this will be fixed in 51 by bug 1190627).
3) My saved tabs that were stored in Sync were immediately clobbered, so I couldn't even recover them from there.

Is there any way to be smarter about this? ie, if Sync contains a bunch of tabs from the current device, can Fennec infer that some data was lost locally and reload those tabs, instead of clobbering over them? Kind of like what we do with about:sessionrestore on desktop?

Comment 1

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