528466 - recently closed windows inactive (not shown in restore list) until after you press restore

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

[talista]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

It should be mentioned in the restore current session screen (after crash) that there are other windows that can be restored after pressing restore button or at least a showing the other tabs from different windows in the same screen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open two firefox windows each with few tabs
2.close one window after another
3.Open firefox it shows the session from one window only.
Actual Results:  
firefox shows session from one window only and not mentioning there is another window(s) with other tabs that could be restored.

Expected Results:  
To show that I can restore my other windows with all my tabs.

Comment 1

[Marien Zwart]

I think the steps to reproduce here are actually:

1. Open two windows (let's call them A and B), each with one or more tabs.
2. Close window A.
3. Crash firefox.
4. Restart firefox.

Actual results:

about:sessionrestore ("Well, this is embarrassing.") is displayed, and window A (the one we closed before crashing) is nowhere to be found: about:sessionrestore does not display it and it's not in windows -> recently closed windows.

If the session (window B) is restored window A now shows up in windows -> recently closed windows.

Expected results:

Window A is mentioned somewhere before window B is restored: history -> recently closed windows already has it, and/or about:sessionrestore mentions restoring this history.

The reporter somehow ended up in this state with "window B" (the one sessionrestore mentions) being a single useless tab and "window A" (the important one) literally having dozens of tabs, and did not realize he needed to restore this useless window to get his important window back.

Comment 2

[u279076]

Ok...so let me see if I can simplify the explanation of the current behaviour:

When the "Oops" page appears, recently closed windows are not listed.  However, they are listed in History after restoring the session.  This behaviour is as designed I believe.

I suppose the question we should be asking is if the "Oops" page should be listing recently closed windows as well.  Perhaps recently closed could appear under a section called "Recently Closed Windows" unchecked by default on this page?

If this is an accurate description of the bug, this is more of an enhancement request.

Comment 3

[Marien Zwart]

I believe what you describe would have helped the reporter. The problem with the current behavior is that it is not obvious that pressing the "restore" button actually restores more than what is listed above that button.

(I'm commenting here because I originally helped the reporter figure out where their tabs had gone after crashing.)

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

seems to me this would be confusing