556682 - improvement: add options to specify how prior tabs are displayed on restart

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 506526

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, enhancement)

Description

[mhe1943-bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1045 Safari/532.5
Build Identifier: 3.0.4

When TB 3.0.4 is restarted, it displays the same tabs from when it was closed, and it maintains the same selected tab from when it was closed.  

While this may be useful for some, I suggest managing these behaviors with via three mutually-exclusive choices:

1.  On restart, show the prior tabs, and restore the selected tab. (this is the current behavior)

2:  On restart, show the prior tabs, and select the Folders tab.

3.  On restart, show the Folders tab only.

The rationale for 2 and 3 is that they allow viewing new mail immediately when TB is restarted -- which I think is the main interest for most users.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
A feature request -- not a bug
Actual Results:  
A feature request -- not a bug

Expected Results:  
A feature request -- not a bug

Comment 1

[David E. Ross]

How about the same options that SeaMonkey 2 gives when terminating the browser while multiple tabs are open: Cancel, Quit, Save Tabs and Quit.  On the options popup, there is also a checkbox to remember which option was selected and not ask again.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

(Partial) duplicate of bug 506526?

(In reply to comment #1)
> How about the same options that SeaMonkey 2 gives when terminating the browser
> while multiple tabs are open: Cancel, Quit, Save Tabs and Quit.

See bug 527434 comment 13.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

xref Bug 527434 - Trying to exit Thunderbird with multiple open tabs needs a confirmation

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

actually, let's dup this