617814 - Litmus test failure: 13: [sessionstore] Disable Restore from Crash »

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[B.J. Herbison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
Build Identifier: 4.0b8pre (installed from Nightly Builds on 8 December 2010)

https://litmus.mozilla.org/run_tests.cgi?test_run_id=244
Test failed: 13

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
    If Firefox is open, close it.
    Find your prefs.js file using the steps below and open it for editing.
    Add

    user_pref("browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash", false);

    to the end of the file
    Save the file and start Firefox
    Select an article from the Latest Headlines in the bookmarks toolbar
    Kill Firefox using the steps below.
    Check your profile directory for sessionstore.js
    Start Firefox

Actual Results:  
After killing Firefox there is a sessionstore.js present (but restarting Firefox does display the home page).

Expected Results:  
After killing Firefox, you should not see a sessionstore.js file in your profile folder
After restarting Firefox, you should see the Firefox start page (not the page you had loaded when you quit)

Comment 1

[u279076]

It's simply enough to mark a test in Litmus as FAIL.  In this case, the test actually just needs updating, in which case you should report as BROKEN.  It's not necessary to file a bug for a broken Litmus test unless there is an actual bug with Firefox.

Thanks.