650354 - FF4: on about:home page, "Restore Session" opens last viewed site even when history cleared

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 644998

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[trevor.gross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

When the about:home page is open, clicking "Restore Session" *after* selecting Tools -> Clear Recent History -> Clear all still opens last viewed site. 

Observed on FF4, Windows XP x86, but likely affects all platforms. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit any website.
2. In the same tab, Navigate to about:home either by typing it into the address bar or clicking the home page icon
3. Select Tools -> Clear Recent History; select "Everything" to clear, click "Clear Now"
4. Click Restore Session button on currently open about:home page. 





Actual Results:  
opens last viewed page in that tab. 

Expected Results:  
No action (stays on about:home) or perhaps notice that there is no session to restore. 

A user would not expect their last viewed page to be available after clearing their history, the Restore Session button notwithstanding.

Comment 1

[trevor.gross]

Edit: only reproducible when "Restore Session" button is present on about:home page. When that button is present, the steps outlined apply and the unexpected result of being able to access a previously-viewed page after clearing history occurs.

Comment 2

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

Hmm, that seems reasonable. Marking [good first bug] in case anybody wants to pick it up since I don't have the time this second.

It would be good to get this into Firefox 6 so if nobody steps up, I'll take it.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

tracking-firefox flags aren't for suggesting something is important. If you think it's important, work with the leads of that module to get it prioritized.

Comment 4

[u279076]

Marking as NEW based on comment 2.

Comment 5

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

This is just a part of the problem that should be addressed. Removing the button may be "hard", but we can talk about that in bug 644998.