565415 - about:sessionrestore (in a tab) does not replace current session

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100512 Minefield/3.7a5pre ID:20100512035952

repro:
open FF
open about:sessionrestore in a tab
click on [Restore]

result:
a new window with the old session opens

expected:
my current session to be replaced by the old one.

feel free to INVA this bug if about:sessionrestore shouldn't be opened in a tab

Comment 1

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

This happens also on Linux using today's trunk nightly.Actually, I guess this is because Session Restores saves the whole window and restores it as it was (this means no additional tabs). Maybe this is even by design.

Comment 2

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

This is intentional to cover the case where you open a new window/tab while about:sessionrestore is open. We don't want to lose data you opened intentionally.