383207 - Restoring a New Session does not remember sidebar collapsed state

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 383204

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[cmtalbert]

If you have the sidebar open on windows or linux and you close the browser normally, then upon reopening the browser you will see that the sidebar comes up uncollapsed.  This seems to be the expected behavior since all three platforms do this.

However, if the browser crases on windows and linux with the sidebar expanded, and if you restart the browser and choose "New Session" then the browser starts with the sidebar collapsed.

BUILDID: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070604 Minefield/3.0a6pre

== STEPS TO REPRODUCE ==
1. Start the browser on windows or linux
2. Open the sidebar (to either history or bookmarks)
3. Kill the browser
4. Start the browser and choose "Start a New Session"
5. Note that the browser starts with the sidebar closed.

== Expected Behavior ==
The sidebar should return to its prior state when the user restarts the new session.  I.e. if it was closed, it should return closed, if open, then open.

Note that if you choose "Restore Session" then the sidebar will be restored properly.

Tested with the above build on windows XP and with this build on Ubuntu 7.04: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070601 Minefield/3.0a5pre

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

AFAICT this is the same issue as bug 383204 (corrupted resp. not updated localstore.rdf).