372675 - Restore session setting should have option to disable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 371031

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Jason Major]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Hyperlink buttons on keyboards, or embedded links in applications won't work if the session restore thinks it needs to run.  There should be an option to disable this feature all together.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn your computer off with Firefox loaded
2. use keyboard shortcuts to launch web urls
3. answer the prompt about restoring session
Actual Results:  
After you answer the question, your intended url doesn't launch.

Expected Results:  
the URL doesn't launch

have an option to disable this feature out of firefox.

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

WFM on Mac using 2.0.0.2. I tried both restoring a previous session, and starting a new session, and the link from the external application loaded in both cases.

Also, there already is a pref for disabling post-crash restoration:

browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash = false

More information on the session restore prefs here:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore#Preferences

If you are able to reliably reproduce this problem, can you please post your reproduction steps in more detail, including which external application you used, and which keyboard shortcut?

Comment 2

[Simon Bünzli]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/2007030919 Firefox/2.0.0.3

This indeed seems to be a problem due to DDE being only half-way initiated at the time SessionStartup prompts. Unfortunately the DDE error messages are kinda cryptic (e.g. if you double-click an HTML file, you get a file-not-found error).

Delaying the prompt (as suggested in bug 354894) prevents the error messages and opens new windows in the background instead. Not sure what the best behavior would be in that case though. Maybe using an error page instead of the restore prompt would lead to a nicer UE... OTOH this is quite an edge case, anyway, and Jason's probably rather annoyed by bug 342885 than this issue.

Comment 3

[Simon Bünzli]

Duping to the more appropriate bug 371031.