664264 - After crash, session restore fails with "The URL is not valid and cannot be restored"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[mjs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

After FF crashes, if FF is set to restore the previous session on start or an attempt is made to restore the previous session, the restore fails with a pop-up message: "The URL is invalid and cannot be loaded."  The URL in the locaation bar is "about:sessionrestore".  My sessionstore.js appears to my untrained eye to be uncorrupted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open some tabs.
2. "killall firefox"
3. Restart Firefox.

Actual Results:  
See attached screenshot.

Expected Results:  
Session is restored with all applicable open windows and tabs.

Comment 1

[mjs]

Attachment: Screenshot of failed session recovery

Comment 2

[u279076]

Thanks for filing this bug. Can you confirm if this happens with a new profile and the latest Firefox Nightly?

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager

Comment 3

[George Carstoiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110621 Firefox/7.0a1

Reporter, were you able to try what Anthony suggested in comment 2? You can also try our latest official Firefox 5 release - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

Comment 4

[mjs]

Haven't tried the latest nightlies yet, but I did play with profiles a bit.

If I create a new profile and crash it, recovery works.  If I open the old profile and crash it, neither profile can recover after that.

I also tried on another machine, and I don't seem to have any problems with that.

I will try nightlies and/or Fx 5 next chance I get.

Comment 5

[George Carstoiu]

 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110724 Firefox/8.0a1

If you say that you cannot reproduce it on a clean profile or on another machine, it must be an addon or a pref.

Please try on the latest trunk, but I am pretty sure that I won't reproduce on a clean profile:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(precise wording in summary)

Comment 7

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110908 Firefox/9.0a1
Marking this as WorksForMe.
Reporter, if you can provide any extra information or a response to the request in Comment 5, please do so.