555748 - opened FF via a web link in email. Opened a new tab, clicked "home", FF opened a new window with an old recovered set of tabs.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Deliman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I opened Firefox by clicking a link in an email in Thunderbird.  It did not recover a previous session, it only opened the link I clicked on.  I did open more tabs in that FF session.  I opened a 4th tab, and clicked "home" to go to google search.

Firefox did two odd things the second I clicked "home".

1) it opened a whole new window with tabs recovered from some previous crashed session, a session that crashed in January.
2) It did open a tab at "home" in the window I clicked on, but not the tab I'd just created for "home" - it opened a new tab on that firefox window.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have Firefox save a crashed session
2. open Firefox via an email link
3. open a couple more tabs
4. select an empty tab
5. click on "home"
Actual Results:  
variable - this doesn't reproduce the problem every time.

Expected Results:  
I would expect the "home url" to be opened in the tab selected, I would not expect Firefox to open a whole new window with some ancient recovered crashed session in it.

Default theme is in use.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.

Comment 3

[Mike Deliman]

(In reply to comment #2)
> No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new
> profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to
> see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment
> on this bug.

working on it - need to find a URL that crashes firefox...