2043909 - If Firefox private browsing window is opened parallel to the normal firefox window, and the normal firefox is closed before the provate firefox window. All the open tabs from the initial firefox window are closed and "lost" and can not be restored.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox and open several tabs.
Open a Firefox private browsing window alongside the normal window.
Close the normal Firefox window while continuing to work in the private window.
Reopen the normal Firefox window (regardless of whether the private window is still open or closed).
Expected Result:
All previously open tabs in the normal Firefox window should be automatically restored (since this option was activated).
Actual Result:
All previous tabs in the normal Firefox window are lost and not restored.

Actual results:

All previous tabs in the normal Firefox window are lost and not restored. This happend several times and is really frustrating when working on a project.

Expected results:

All previously open tabs in the normal Firefox window should be automatically restored or at least there should be an option to restore the previous session. but there is not.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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