467337 - Firefox does not save the tabs from last time correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 444069

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Green Dragon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4

I own a website (a wiki) and I for the most part I have around 10 to 100 tabs open at all times.

I used to always pkill firefox after using it to retain the correct tabs from last time.  This worked flawlessly; the tabs I had open from last time were always correctly saved, and there were no problems.  I ended up restoring the previous session every time I opened firefox and the exact same tabs I had open from last time popped up.  It worked.

Then I upgraded my firefox (through the update-manager of course), and everything changed.  A new option (save tabs and quit) showed up.  I tried out this option, however it did not (and maybe still does not?) work correctly.  Maybe because of how many tabs I always have open or something it did not save the correct tabs I had open; sometimes it showed old tabs I had open an hour or so before I closed firefox, sometimes only a blank screen showed up.  I stopped using this buggy feature and went back to the old pkill way of dealing with firefox.  Now, a real bug is present.  Firefox (when pkilled) does not retain the tabs from last time correctly.  I have no idea what changed, however now when I pkill firefox and restore the previous session at a later date it restores tabs I had open from an earlier time - NOT the exact same tabs I had open when I pkilled firefox.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Paste this into the homepage area (so they all show up).  Then change the homepage back to the standard page, pkill firefox, and restore the session.  I doubt the same tabs will show up.

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2.  They to use the "save tabs from last time" option and see if it works correctly.

Comment 1

[Youno Lei]

Windows: "Show my windows and tabs from last time" after shutting down using the cross button hasn't worked in -any- version since FF 3. It works, however, if I select Exit from the File menu. It' SO annoying. Is there at least a way to disable the cross to avoid clicking it by mistake? I thought I'd posted about this bug in the past, but apparently not. I used FF 2 until a couple of days ago when FireFTP required version 3+. :(
I'll try the "OK to take it and work on it" option.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Still an issue with Firefox 3.5.2?