430233 - If URL is opened when Session Restore dialog is opened after crash, URL is opened in background and session is lost

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 381386

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Edmund Craske]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

After Firefox stopped responding, I Force Quitted it, then reopened it. Before I had clicked 'Restore Previous Session' button in the Session Restore dialog, I had clicked on a URL in another application. Firefox opened the URL in the background, and then when I clicked on 'Restore Previous Session' only a blank window was opened, rather than the tabs I had opened before. Something about opening a new URL between crashing and restoring must be clobbering the session information.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open some tabs in Firefox
2. Force quit Firefox so that when reopened, the Session Restore dialog appears
3. Click on a URL in another application such that it is opened in Firefox (obviously Firefox must be set as the default browser)
4. Click 'Restore Previous Session'
Actual Results:  
Only a blank page is opened, aside from the URL clicked on.

Expected Results:  
The previous session should be restored still - perhaps the URL open should not be processed until a button is clicked on in the Session Restore dialog.

I have not yet tested this on Windows, but would not be surprised if the same happened.