Open Bug 1738596 Opened 4 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Pinned tabs disappears when closing Firefox

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Version:
Firefox 94
Platform:
Desktop
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox93 --- affected
firefox94 --- affected
firefox95 --- affected

People

(Reporter: fahad.at94, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Steps to reproduce:

when two Firefox windows are opened (one contains all the pinned tabs and the other one contains at least on regular tab), if i close the main window (which contains all the pinned tabs) and then close the other window, the pinned tabs will disappears if i run Firefox again.

Actual results:

pinned tabs disappears

Expected results:

the pinned tabs should not disappears

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser

Hello! I have managed to reproduce the issue with firefox 95.0a1 (2021-11-01), 94.0 and 93.0 on Ubuntu 20 and MacOS 10.15 and Windows 10
Marking this issue as NEW and setting a component in order for our developers to look more into it.

If it's not the right component please feel free to change it to an appropriate one.

Thank you

Severity: -- → S3
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox93: --- → affected
status-firefox94: --- → affected
status-firefox95: --- → affected
Component: Tabbed Browser → Session Restore
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop

This is a recurring problem for me. I wish it would get fixed.

Just now, I forgot that I still had a Customer Support chat open. When I had clicked to open that chat, it had opened itself in a new window. I went along my way, and sometime later, I decided to close Firefox, forgetting that, buried on one of my multiple displays, the chat windows was still there. Of course, I closed the initial (main?) window, with all my pinned tabs, and BOOM! All my pinned tabs were permanently gone!

I have read several things, and they make me think this is a design choice. Something about each window having it's own "session" and pinned tabs are stored in that "session." The end user has to be careful which windows they close, in which order, or they will the pinned tabs. Why put this burden on the end user??? It is just NOT a good user experience

Losing stuff, important information, like that found in pinned tabs... I would suggest that the design should be looked at again.

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