647510 - The last page viewed rather than home page opens when FF4 starts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 628043

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[usefulbells]

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

The options/general/Startup/"When Firefox starts" option is set to "Shoe my home page" but the windows and tabs from last time appear when Firefox is started.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Close Firefox with multiple tabs or any page other than the home page
2.Start Firefox
3.Last page or tabs reappear
Actual Results:  
Last page or tabs reappear

Expected Results:  
Home page should have appeared

This only happened after upgrading to Firefox 4.0

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you had an additional window open as for example the downloadmanager ?

Comment 2

[usefulbells]

No

Comment 3

[usefulbells]

No

Comment 4

[usefulbells]

I stand corrected.  The problem is with the "Firefox Preloader program".  43 people have acknowledged this problem on the Firefox Help forum.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I think that this is a dupe of bug 628043.
I don't know what this "Firefox Preloader program" is doing...

Comment 6

[usefulbells]

Follow these links:
support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/798436
download.cnet.com/Firefox-Preloader/3000-11745_4-10906890.ht
It does not seem to be fully compatible with FF4

Comment 7

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I don't know what this "Firefox Preloader program" is doing...

Chances are just keeping the process alive instead of actually quitting. We'll call it a dupe since it was likely dependent on sessionstore's previous behavior as described there.