Closed Bug 664369 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Provide ability to make session persistent

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

ARM
Android
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: tech4pwd, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: dataloss)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110614 Firefox/7.0a1 Build Identifier: The current implementation means that a user will lose their tabs should they accidentally open the program a couple times and forget to check that their tabs have been restored. A session is no less valuable on mobile than it is on desktop and yet management of a session on mobile is near impossible. From simple tasks such as close all tabs to end the session and thus close the program to make sure I'm not forced to go through my bookmarks to get to my homepage in order to make sure my session is available to be restored because Fennec sometimes restores it and sometimes doesn't. This is an area that needs to be improved and not by an extension. This is core functionality of Firefox that is reflected across the majority of platforms and yet ignored on mobile. We should: 1/ Provide the option to restore tabs upon opening firefox (an option in desktop) 2/ Provide the ability to close all tabs and end the session and thus minimise the footprint of Firefox Reproducible: Always
Keywords: dataloss
OS: Other → Android
Hardware: Other → ARM
Summary: Provide to make session persistent → Provide ability to make session persistent
Depends on: 659670
As far as I know, for the second issue, the ability to close all tabs and end session exists: Quit Add-on. mfinkle, can we have your input on this?
Hi Paul. Thanks for your feature request. You can actually restore your tabs directly from the about:home screen when using add-on "Quit Firefox for Mobile" as mentioned above: https://addons.mozilla.org/af/mobile/addon/quit-fennec/ - when installed, you can find a "quit" option in the Android menu. Upon restart, you will see a list of all tabs you had open previously. You can then select individual tabs or you can also reload all tabs with just one tap. Also: check out the the related add-on "Home Links": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/home-links/ which allows you to open your favorite pages quickly.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Thomas, it's a stock feature to have a list of the previous tabs on the 'home tab'. However, as I stated in the original post, it's insufficient. Please also note that quite fennec has now basically been folded into Fennec (bug 659670). Thus setting back to UNCONFIRMED based on the assumption you weren't quite up to date with the recent changes.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Paul, regarding issue 1: Provide the option to restore tabs upon opening firefox (an option in desktop): In "about:home" there is: "Your tabs from last time". issue2: Provide the ability to close all tabs and end the session and thus minimise the footprint of Firefox: You have also the addon and now due to bug 659670 this feature is added into the browser. So, I agree with Thomas.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Anna, should Fennec be opened from a third-party program, a user doesn't always get the 'home tab' and thus doesn't always get the option on about:home, thus should a user forget to check that his tabs have been restored (as has happened to me on multiple occasions) tabs are lost. In general my Firefox experience is extended across the two platforms. I'll often read my emails and open links on my Android and then pick up that session from my desktop. If I've lost the tabs due to Fennec not allowing the auto-restoration of tabs by default. I'm in a poor position. I'm at a loss to understand why this is something we support on desktop for all logical reasons and yet on mobile we're ignorant of it. Especially given that there are plans to integrate with Panorama on Mobile too.
Perhaps we should open the home tab in the background in any case where we open a link from another app and do *not* restore the previous session.
(In reply to comment #6) > Perhaps we should open the home tab in the background in any case where we > open a link from another app and do *not* restore the previous session. The plan for desktop is to have a permanent home-tab of which I'd be heavily in favour of replicating that experience.
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