501303 - "Visit Homepage" option when updating extensions destroys session

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 361129

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Dotan Cohen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11

When starting Firefox the user is presented with a list of addons that need updating. If the user right-clicks on an extension and chooses "Visit Homepage" then his stored session is destroyed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox when an extension needs updating
2. Right click on the extension name, choose "Visit Homepage"
3. Perform the update, continue to open Firefox
4. Choose Restore Session
Actual Results:  
The only tab open is the extension's homepage.

Expected Results:  
All tabs from the restored session would be present.

Marking as Critical because of the dataloss issue. There is also no known workaround.

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

(In reply to comment #0)
> There is also no known workaround.

There is: Don't visit any extensions' homepages from the startup prompt. ;-)