455365 - Firefox doesn't respect browser.sessionstore.enabled value

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080915020438 Minefield/3.1b1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080915020438 Minefield/3.1b1pre

Firefox keeps session information regardless of the browser.sessionstore.enabled value.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Got to about:config
2. Change the value of browser.sessionstore.enabled to false
3.
Actual Results:  
sessionstore.js in a Firefox profile folder.

Expected Results:  
No sessionstore.js

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

You mean sessionstore.js , in your opinion, should either not be created or deleted when browser.sessionstore.enabled = false ?

It does startup with the previous session if it's true and with a new session if it's false.

Comment 2

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Yes, that is my opinion and that is how Firefox 3.0.1 and earlier versions work.

This option completely disabled session tracking - maybe now there's a different option for that?

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

See bug 449596. The new way to disable sessionstore is browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash = false.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Actually that's not quite right - see bug 449596 comment 13 for specifics.

Comment 5

[Simon Bünzli]

This bug as filed is INVALID as that pref has been removed for good. In case the mentioned browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash doesn't work as expected, please indicate your specific use case (as in _what_ you want to achieve, not _how_ you want to achieve it).