428086 - Restarting firefox will not always restore / reopen windows and tabs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[michael-bugzilla-firefox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

If I close firefox by "kill -9", or power cycling the system, then it manages to reopen windows and tabs without any problem next time.

If I use File -> Exit, there is a good chance that only one window -- the last one to be closed -- will survive and reopen next time. This is not constant -- perhaps 20% of the time -- but it's enough to make me want to use kill -9, which in turn starts talkbalk the next time.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have multiple windows with multiple tabs
2. File -> Exit
3. Restart.
Actual Results:  
Usually fine.
Occasionally: Only one window survives to reopen.

Expected Results:  
Many windows.

Rather than giving me window by window "Do you really want to close 3 tabs?", how about one "Do you really want to close 9 windows and 31 total tabs?".

Comment 1

[Clarence Rubin]

I get the same behavior. I hadn't thought of using kill -9, it's good to know that's a workaround.

Version 2.0.0.7 here.

Comment 2

[mmortal03]

Duplicate of Bug 427468?

Comment 3

[mmortal03]

My guess is that you guys are unknowingly experiencing Bug 398817.  New findings in Bug 427468 clarified this.

Comment 4

[Simon Bünzli]

Can any of you reproduce this issue on Firefox 3.0? IIRC there's been a fix for a Mac specific issue where windows weren't closed all together but window by window (which would lead to the behavior described).

Comment 5

[Simon Bünzli]

Closing as INCOMPLETE due to no feedback to comment #4.