Open Bug 1680718 Opened 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Add option to settings to enable session restore for private tabs on crash in Firefox (Nightly)

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Firefox 85
enhancement

Tracking

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: mystiquewolf, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox Nightly could (and sometimes does) crash while there are tabs in private windows.

Actual results:

Tabs from private windows cannot be restored if the browser crashed and did not exit cleanly.

Expected results:

All tabs (incl. private window ones) should be restored if the last exit was not clean (ex. crash).

I propose an optional setting (maybe only for Nightly, maybe not) which will enable session persistence for private windows on disk. On clean exit, every trace from private windows is erased. On a crash, session restore would work just as it does for normal windows.

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

Component: Untriaged → Session Restore
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