394185 - Show URLs/titles of sites to be restored in the session restore prompt

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426123

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

[bugzillaspambox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

Hi folks,
if I have firefox opened firefox and shut down my computer my operating system does not give enough time to close the application properly. It justs shots it so the shutting down sequence is shorter (faster). But when I boot up the computer hours or days later firefox asks me if I would like to restore the session. Usually I don't know anymore which pages were open but letting them open again by the session restore feature is often helpful for me because I got my favourite websites which I access quite often. So there is a good chance I will get thouse websites again.

But sometimes I run some special php scripts on a server which should only be run once to add some entries in the database. If I would run this script twice, thouse entries would be 2 times in the database. If I don't know which websites will be opened/scripts will be executed when I use the session restore feature I would have to open the session blind or not use the session restore feature. And if I am not able to use the session restore feature because I don't know what it is doing the feature is useless for me and just keeps me for a short time from opening the websites again manually.

If firefox would tell me what he would like to open (some info about the websites) when he askes if he should open it would be advantageous.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a few tabs with a few websites
2. kill firefox
3. forget what you have opened
4. run firefox again and make your decision if he should restore the session or not
Actual Results:  
firefox asks you if he should open thouse websites again without telling you what he is talking about

Expected Results:  
firefox should ask you if he should open the websites he has listed below

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

you could however check in your php script if the session has changed, and discard data if coming from an invalid session...

a "details" view could be added, with a list of "url | title", but probably is a feature that would be used by a little bunch of users, could be done maybe by an extension?

I've not found a dupe for this

Comment 2

[mmortal03]

It would be nice if we could have an option for check boxes next to each tab entry that will be restored, so that we can restore some of them, but not an offending one that is crashing the browser.