639146 - Unable to restore sessions when default homepage is changed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Christopher Chan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

The option to "save and quit" is removed when closing multiple tabs, and the "restore previous sessions" button is only available in about:home .  That means users who don't use about:home as their homepage will somehow lose their ability to restore sessions, or at least they'll have to manually "restore" their sessions by looking through the history, which is extremely inconvenient.

My suggestion would be to show a notification show a notification from the left of the address bar (the location where the security info of a page is shown) to prompt a user whether to restore a session, and should consist of the following options:
X Restore previous session
X Do not restore
[ ] Always restore previous sessions for me
[ ] Never ask me again

When "Always restore previous sessions for me" is checked , the "do not restore" and "Never ask me again" button is grayed out.  When "Never ask me again" is checked, the "Restore previous session" and "always restore" options should be grayed out.  This feature would comply to Fx4's "no popup" strategy and give ALL users an easy way to restore their sessions.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Christopher Chan]

As a side note, the prompt should only be shown to users who don't use about:home as their homepage.

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

You can use: Firefox Menu -> History arrow -> Restore Previous Session

Or alternatively, set Firefox to always save your tabs on the first page of options.

However, I agree that the Firefox Menu link is not exactly easily discoverable. 

Perhaps a relnote section needed, saying:
"For users who have customised their homepage, you can find the restore session link here: ...."

Comment 3

[u279076]

I believe this is actually a dupe.  We've seen several similar requests since removing the quit dialog.  Paul, can you help me track down a valid dupe?