555918 - Restored session should append to (not replace) current session

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2

I did close and save tabs. I started FF and the choice to restore tabs or start a new session appeared. Instead, I left this page for the time being, and did ctrl+T. I opened few tabs (not that this is relevant), and than I decided to restore some of them I needed again. I got back to the first tab and clicked to restore tabs. All new tabs I opened got closed and I lost information.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reopen FF after closing with several tabs
2.Do not restore session, but add some tabs
3.Go back to first tab
4.Restore
Actual Results:  
New tabs get closed

Expected Results:  
All tabs should remain. It is by design if the restored ones should get at the beginning or at the end, but its a must that no tabs should be removed.

Comment 1

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Ok, sorry, I did not see that it opened new window, and did not closed all the tabs, but since Win7 groups all FF windows, I could not see this happening. Thus this is not a bug, this is by design, but I am for discussing that it would be better if tabs are opened alongside the existing tabs rather than opening new FF window.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I suspect this was a farily conscious decision.

Note: Priority should only be set by developers please. resetting to --
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#priority

Comment 3

[u279076]

Definitely a feature suggestion but I think it deserves some discussion.