402698 - Session Restore hangs on page load

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Michael Bathrick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

When Mozilla has a required reload - whether crash or reboot - the tabs are recreated by session restore, but the reload never completes. This started with last update and continues into this version. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
One way to reproduca (last time)

1. Have 14 tabs open, and Firefox hangs.
2. Using task manager, kill process.
3. Restart Firefox

Actual Results:  
Tabs open and loading message shows in each tab.  No address shows in address bar, page never loaded (last time I left for eight hours with no result).  Id load stopped and restarted, page reference is lost.  If reload all tabs is selected, all reloading tabs lose page reference.

Expected Results:  
Tabs should load on session restore

Comment 1

[Michael Bathrick]

OK, here's more info.  The problem continues - after three reboots, no matter how many tabs are up it always defaults to the fourteen tabs that were originally there.  This has been happening over and over - for weeks now.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Have you tried:

- Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- a new profile
- a reinstall in a new empty folder? 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 3

[Michael Bathrick]

Interesting.  I started in safe mode, disabling all add-ons.  Everything worked.  I tried again in safe mode, add-ons not disabled.  Everything worked.  I started without safe mode.  Everything worked.  So I guess I am fixed, but I assume that the problem is not.  I will report if it happens again.

Comment 4

[Mordy]

I have this problem exactly. Its quite annoying.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I have this problem exactly. Its quite annoying.

Mordy,
talkback ID of the crashes? 
 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Mordy, if you still see problem started in safe mode please list URL.
=> incomplete for now

Comment 7

[Mordy]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Mordy, if you still see problem started in safe mode please list URL.
> => incomplete for now
> 

I do still have this problem, as do friends of mine, its definitly not resolved, as a workaround I installed the session manager add-on which also doesn't work, but it allows me to reload the same session over and over until it does work... 

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Perhaps, actually, it would be best to close this WFM based on comment 3 since reporter's problem is gone. And Mordy open a new bug.