Closed Bug 1401947 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Please add an option on the about:home and about:newtab page to restore session

Categories

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
New Tab Page
Version:
57 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1400052

People

(Reporter: petcuandrei, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Build ID: 20170921100141 Steps to reproduce: Closed a browser instance with multiple tabs Started Firefox Nightly Actual results: I got a blank new page. No info on how to restore the page. Expected results: I should have had an option to restore the session. This was in versions smaller than v57. I know this option in in the menu but this is not visible for most users. When there is a crash and the user restarts the browser they expect some sort of restore option to be offered to them. If they do not click the menu (and most don't) then they will not know Firefox has this feature. This makes it complicated for support since the users might even stop and start the browser again. This is basically a regression since the about:home page had this.
Component: Untriaged → Activity Streams: Newtab
Keywords: regression
This regression was introduced when about:home was removed. This option was the most important one from the about:home page.
Dupe to a wontfix
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: Activity Streams: Newtab → New Tab Page
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