Closed Bug 1671336 Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 years ago

'session restore' doesn't show up if browser restarts after clearing history for a day

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Platform:
Desktop
Windows
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1607383
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox81 --- affected
firefox82 --- affected
firefox83 --- affected
firefox84 --- affected

People

(Reporter: veeru2357, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Browser running for more than a day; ie running time is from before midnight to after midnight.
  2. Clear all history for 'Today'
  3. Browser crashes.
  4. Start browser; 'about:sessionrestore' is not displayed.

Expected results:

'about:sessionrestore' page should be displayed on restarting after a crash

Hi Veeru,

Thanks for the answer. I was unable to reproduce this issue on Windows 10 Firefox Nightly 84.0a1 (2020-10-23) (64-bit). But maybe you can provide me with a bit more info.

Does this issue occur with a fresh profile? you can find the steps here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Can you please download Firefox Nightly from here: https://nightly.mozilla.org/ and retest the problem and see if the issue still occurs there as well?

Thanks in advance, Flor.

Flags: needinfo?(veeru2357)

If the browser crashes after clearing the history, it should still reopen the tabs on restart / display 'about:sessionrestore' page.

Tried on Nightly 84.0a1 (2020-10-24) (32-bit) on Windows 7.

  1. open a few tabs
  2. clear all browsing history
  3. simulate a crash by terminating firefox process.
  4. launch firefox - 'open tabs from last session are lost'

Ideally, the 'open tabs' should be restored even after clearing the history.

Flags: needinfo?(veeru2357)

Hi,

So this doesn't happen always, but I got to reproduce it on the third try. I reproduced it on Windows 10, 84.0a1 (2020-10-26) (64-bit). I'll assign a component so that a developer may look at it.

Regards, Flor.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox81: --- → affected
status-firefox82: --- → affected
status-firefox83: --- → affected
status-firefox84: --- → affected
Component: Untriaged → Session Restore
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → Windows
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop
Version: 80 Branch → Trunk

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

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Flags: needinfo?(mdeboer)

This looks like bug 1607383; we can coalesce them.

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