1491822 - Restore session has stopped restoring all Windows

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[greg_gladwell]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Build ID: 20180830143136

Steps to reproduce:

Closed down Firefox, then machine. Restarted, reopened Firefox


Actual results:

On both this occasion and another of just closing the browser, since 62.0, only one Window from the previous session was restored, losing the contents of the others.


Expected results:

All windows and tabs restored.

Comment 1

[Jason Duell]

Greg, 

Can you check to see if you still have this problem after you check two things?

1) If you go to the menu bar and select "Edit | Preferences | General", in the "Startup" section at the top, make sure the "Restore Previous Session" checkbox is selected

2) Also in Preferences, go to "Privacy and Security" and under "Cookies and Site Data" make sure the pull down menu for "keep until" is set to "until they expire", not "until Firefox is closed".

Those are the two most likely things I can think of that would cause your behavior.

Although looking at your report one more time, perhaps you're hitting something else.  You're saying that you get one windows (with multiple tabs) restored, and your other windows are missing?  Can you reproduce that every time you start the browser?

Thanks for your help debugging Firefox.

Comment 2

[Dale Harvey (:daleharvey)]

Sorry but there isnt enough information here to debug anything, at the least the needinfo would need answered. If I close firefox with multiple windows they are all restored as would be expected