Open Bug 1671817 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

User can accidentally erase their previous session in about:sessionrestore

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Version:
Firefox 81
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: mike.bugzilla.privacy, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Firefox crashes/or is forced to quit
  2. Firefox reopens with about:sessionrestore
  3. I wanted to wait before choosing which tabs to restore from the list, and needed to look something up from my history so I opened 'Show all history'.
  4. I double-clicked a history item to navigate to it

Actual results:

  • It loaded in the current tab, containing about:sessionrestore
  • When I navigated back all of the previous session data had been lost
  • I lost 1000 tabs!

Presumably this would have also happened if I entered a URL in the address bar and loaded that page.

Expected results:

  • The page should have loaded in a new tab

OR

  • The session history should have still been available when I navigated back

In addition to the above...

Actual results:

  • Pinned tabs were lost

Expected results:

  • Pinned tabs should not have been lost

Mike, I'm sorry that you lost all your tabs, I can also reproduce this issue on Firefox 82 and Nightly 84.0a1, but I'm not sure if this is an issue or is in fact the expected behavior. I'm going to set a component for this report so that someone with more knowledge in the session restore area could take a look.

Component: Untriaged → Session Restore

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

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