605164 - Tabs from last time shows me tabs from some time ago

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 630398

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Fennec doesn't seem to remember very well what tabs I was using last time, it is currently suggesting that my last tabs was a page I was looking at two days ago. I have used Fennec multiple times since then

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We delete the backup session file, which is used to pull the "tabs from last time" data here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/source/components/SessionStore.js#89

This is called from an event handler for "final-ui-startup" here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/source/components/SessionStore.js#117

If Fennec wasn't actually closed, but only hidden, then this would possibly happen.

But I seriously doubt this is the problem. We should be updating the backup file in the background anyway. That would at least change the list of "tabs".

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Yeah I've definitely completely restarted Fennec a few times in the last day.

I took a look at the sessionstore.bak and sessionstore.js files and the bak file shows the tab that it told me was last used. After restarting it correctly changed back to showing no tabs this time.

One thing that was odd though, both the js and bak files had modification times in the future, 8 hours in the future in fact. This sounds like a timezone oddity.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I just restarted Fennec using the notification in the Beta area and it failed to remember what tabs were open before

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Sounds related to bug 630398. That's where I plan to fix it.