383702 - "Recently Closed Tabs" are "locked up".

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[charlamage]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

 No matter what you do, the "Recently Closed Tabs" menu is "locked up", I don't know why this is.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Just look at History>Recently Closed Tabs
Actual Results:  
"Locked up"

Expected Results:  
Allow me to open a recently closed tab.

I have no idea if it's just me or not, nor do I know how to tell.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Does this also happen in Firefox's safe-mode?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)

Comment 2

[charlamage]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does this also happen in Firefox's safe-mode?
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
> 

Nope, everything is ok in Safe Mode.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In this case the problem is most likely caused by an extension.
Once you have figured out what extension has caused this problem you could notify the author of the add-on so that he can fix it.
Not a bug in Firefox = INVALID.

Comment 4

[charlamage]

 (In reply to comment #3)
> In this case the problem is most likely caused by an extension.
> Once you have figured out what extension has caused this problem you could
> notify the author of the add-on so that he can fix it.
> Not a bug in Firefox = INVALID.
> 

 But every single add-on that would do that are uninstalled, how do you explain that?

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

-safe-mode starts Firefox with temporarily disabled extensions and with temporarily default toolbar settings.

Comment 6

[charlamage]

 Well it works there, but I have no idea what's causing it >_> Also, when it isn't locked up, it forgets the recently closed tab.

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Well, if it's not the add-ons you could try deleting the localstore.rdf file. Warning: you'll lose your toolbar settings, but if it doesn't help you can find the file in the recycler. 
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf

Comment 8

[Simon Bünzli]

(In reply to comment #4)
> But every single add-on that would do that are uninstalled

So you don't use any add-ons at all? Otherwise: how could you tell which add-ons might or might not be responsible?

For further investigation, you might want to navigate to about:config and verify that the pref browser.sessionstore.enabled is set to true. If it is, make sure that javascript.options.showInConsole is also set to true and then open the Error Console and check for chrome errors.

(In reply to comment #6)
> when it isn't locked up, it forgets the recently closed tab.

What do you mean by "forgetting"? Note that the list of recently closed tabs is discarded with the window they belong to. You'll have to set Firefox to "Show [your] windows and tabs from last time" at startup if you want that list to be preserved after shutdown.

Comment 9

[charlamage]

 I can't think of any add-on I currently have that would do that, but once I have access to Firefox again, I will try that.