2012241 - AI chatbot sidebar should maintain conversation history across open/close cycles

Status: NEW

(Core :: Machine Learning: General, enhancement)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox with AI chatbot feature enabled
2. Open AI chatbot sidebar (via Ctrl+X shortcut on macOS or UI button)
3. Have a multi-turn conversation with the chatbot
4. Close the chatbot sidebar (via Ctrl+X on macOS or UI button)
5. Reopen the chatbot sidebar

Actual results:

The chatbot sidebar opens with a fresh chat session. The previous conversation is completely lost.

Expected results:

The chatbot sidebar should preserve and restore the active conversation when reopened.

While other Firefox sidebars (bookmarks/history) may not preserve UI state, chat conversations are fundamentally different - they are stateful sessions with context that builds across multiple interactions. Losing conversation history when closing the sidebar makes the feature impractical for any workflow that requires switching focus between the chat and other browser activities.

Expected behavior: reopening the sidebar should restore the last active conversation, allowing users to continue where they left off.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Machine Learning: General' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.