643424 - Tabs persist over session end.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 506526

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Jim Bennett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9

Tabs in ThunderBird are Always still there on a close and re-open.
(Tabs in FireFox go away when FireFox closes.)
If I have opened many tabs during a mail session, I am forced to close them all by hand.
 There should be an option to have ThunderBird "forget" open tabs on a close of the program. I would use such an option. Others might not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a mail item, and another, and another
2.close ThunderBird
3.start Thunderbird.   all the open items are still open. 
Actual Results:  
All opened tabs were still open. 
  This is inconvenient when dozens, or hundreds, were opened.

Expected Results:  
 For me, tabs would go away after close and restart. As a minimum, there would be an option at program close to save open tabs.

None. This is a general, all-options and all-configurations annoyance.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

The current default (and only) behavior is "session restore" which restores the status (tabs and folders selected) when Thunderbird was closed. A bug report is pending already to make this configurable as it's not everybody's favorite.