Open Bug 1631101 Opened 4 years ago Updated 7 months ago

Firefox update 75.0 lost MOST of my tabs (not all) using orderly update/restart of Firefox

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Version:
75 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: bruce.accounts+mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Steps to reproduce:

Had many windows, each with many tabs open. Could have easily been 10 windows, each with 10-20 tabs. "Restore tabs" has been set for years.

Updated Firefox from 74.x to 75.0 when prompted. (I may have downloaded the update first, and waited a day or two before restarting the browser, but shouldn't matter - it was an orderly update/restart, not a crash or reboot of the OS).

Actual results:

When I clicked "Restart Firefox", the browser closed normally.

When it started again, the correct number of WINDOWS opened, but MOST of them with just 1 blank tab! Almost all of my old tabs were gone!

Oddly, some (like 2 or 3) windows were restored with all their tabs - so it was clearly set to "restore tabs", and tried to.

This represents a SIGNIFICANT loss of work for me. Until I can trust Firefox to not lose my work again, I will have to rely on other browsers.

Expected results:

All windows should have opened with their previous content (tabs).

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Session Restore

Resetting severity to default of --.

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

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Flags: needinfo?(mdeboer)

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is -- (non,) indicating it has has not been previously triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to -- (default, untriaged.)

Severity: normal → --

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:dao, since the bug doesn't have a severity set, could you please set the severity or close the bug?

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Flags: needinfo?(mdeboer) → needinfo?(dao+bmo)

Setting priority is no longer part of current triage processes, clearing needinfo.

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