Closed Bug 1567734 Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Session restores hangs on with Firefox 68 (several thousands of tabs)

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Version:
68 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: rhadamanthe.dev, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

  • I normally starts my Firefox.
  • The profile manager shows up.
  • I select the last one I used and click "Start".

Actual results:

Firefox showed a tab telling me a new version had been installed. But my other tabs were not shown. Instead, Firefox's started to hang on. I only had a blank page and Windows (7) told me Firefox was not responding. I have waited 15 minutes before killing it.

When I tried to relaunch it, I was asked to restore my previous session.
All my tabs were listed correctly in the session restoration page. But when I clicked to restore them, Firefox hanged on once again (a single blank tab in a blank page, Windows saying it does not respond anymore).

I have tried to migrate my profile information to a new profile (create a new profile, copy my places.sqlite, sessionstore, etc). And the first launching worked. So, profile elements are not corrupted. But when I close Firefox and reopen it, it once again fails to restore my tabs (haning on, not responding anymore). I had not migrated nor reinstalled extensions yet. So, this is not about extensions.

I have also rolled back firefox to version 67.0.4, and opening everything worked correctly. In few seconds, I had all my tabs shown. For me, this is a bug with version 68.

BTW, I must indicate I have thousands of open tabs.

Expected results:

Firefox should restore and show all my tabs.

Component: Untriaged → Session Restore

Hi,

It has been a week since I reported this issue.
I now have version 68.0.1 and the problem is still here. I cannot use any of my existing profiles since Firefox cannot restore my tabs.

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:mikedeboer, could you have a look please?

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Flags: needinfo?(mdeboer)

Dear reporter, your User Agent string says that you're using Google Chrome, not Firefox.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(mdeboer)
Resolution: --- → INVALID

Hi,

Nice troll, really!
Sure I was using another browser, since Firefox was not starting correctly, loosing my previous session with hundreds of tabs being not restored.

Resolution: INVALID → WONTFIX

Didn't mean to troll at all, you don't have to mention your User Agent string when you file a bug.

I might be able to reproduce the bug you were experiencing back then by taking a look at your sessionstore.jsonlz4 file, but that is sometimes too personal for ppl.
If that's not possible, I can only really ask for a reliable steps to reproduce in order for me to start figuring out what's wrong.

Hi,

I do not blame you for closing the bug, just for the reasons I thought you were doing it (not the right user agent).
I do not remember how the user agent was set, maybe automatically picked up by Bugzilla.

I still have the old sessions.js files, but I indeed do not want to share it here. Sorry.
Few days after, I had found a workaround: I parsed the file myself and listed the visited addresses as a web page. Not ideal, but helpful enough.

We can keep this bug closed. :)

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