624805 - switchto: not available until tab has been reloaded, breaks with browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs = 0

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 599909

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[The 8472]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110109 Firefox/4.0b9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110109 Firefox/4.0b9pre

1. Close a session with several groups
2. Restart firefox
3. Try to switchto: to a tab that is not in the current group via the awesomebar.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

I was not able to reproduce this, as I understood it, on a couple of machines with fresh installations of Fx4b9 using new profiles. I am able to switch to the tab in question.

Comment 2

[The 8472]

Ah, after some more testing i figured out that this is not due to tabcandy. The switchto: function is only available once the tab has been reloaded, which  doesn't happen until you clicked on it when browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs is set to 0.

I get similar behavior with browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs = 3 on a very large session simply because it can take several minutes to reload all tabs and switching to a group loads the tabs in that group first, that's why i thought it was related to TC.

I think the switchto data should be based on session restore information until the tab has been loaded again.