493015 - Selecting "When Firefox starts: show my windows and tabs from last time" has no effect

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10

Selecting "When Firefox starts: show my windows and tabs from last time" has no effect.
This problem comes and goes.  I've had it before, then it went away, now it's back.  I don't know what has caused it to change

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close Firefox after opening several tabs.
2. Open Firefox again and it defaults to one tab on my homepage no matter how many tabs were opened.
3.


Expected Results:  
Firefox should have opened with all the tabs opened when I last closed it

I've had this problem before.  When it occurs it is constant until I "do something", but I don't know what that something is.  It could be a reinstall of Firefox.  Then the open tabs from last time works persistently until "something happens", but I don't know what that something is either.

Comment 1

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I reinstalled Firefox and this fixed the problem.  I did not remove any Firefox files before I did the reinstall

Comment 2

[Paul Simpson]

I experience the same bug on Firefox 3.5 Beta4 on Max OS 10.5.7 (Intel platform). My experience is this feature (restore last open tabs) has not worked a single time since I installed Beta 4 soon after it was released. It's pretty annoying--I hope it's fixed for 3.5 RC1.

Comment 3

[Simon Bünzli]

Resolving this bug as WORKSFORME per comment #1.

Paul: Make sure that you don't have Firefox set to clear your History at shutdown and that you correctly quit Firefox through Cmd+Q without closing the windows first. If neither of these is your issue, please get assistance over at http://support.mozilla.com/ .

Comment 4

[Paul Simpson]

Thanks for the super quick response.  I checked and I do not have the setting to clear history on shutdown.  I tried to close via Cmd+Q as you suggested and it does appear to remember my tabs as it should.  

However, this seems very odd to me. I am new to the Mac platform (long time Windows user) and I'm used to clicking on the red 'close' button to close a program.  I don't know if this is a Mac 'convention' to behave this way but if not perhaps it could be considered a future enhancement to remember tabs if the main window is closed first?  

I'd be happy to open a new enhancement request if you think there may be value.

Comment 5

[Simon Bünzli]

(In reply to comment #4)
> However, this seems very odd to me. I am new to the Mac platform (long time
> Windows user) and I'm used to clicking on the red 'close' button to close a
> program.

You'll have to change your habits: on OS X, closing a window does _not_ close the program... (one of the many subtle differences between OS X and Windows)