678483 - sessionrestore is not recursive anymore

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[silverhawk184]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0.1
Build ID: 20110707182747

Steps to reproduce:

update recently


Actual results:

sessionrestore only displays one set of items. If you close firefox, install a program (which opens the browser when it completes), restart (to apply updates), you are left with only that one tab in session restore. This is extremely annoying with windows updates.


Expected results:

sessionrestore used to be recursive-able. When you restore a session, and then go to about:sessionrestore, there would be a new list of old items. You could do this again and again.

Comment 1

[u279076]

You mention "anymore" in your summary. Did this work on a previous version of Firefox?

Comment 2

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

(In reply to silverhawk184 from comment #0)
> Expected results:
> 
> sessionrestore used to be recursive-able. When you restore a session, and
> then go to about:sessionrestore, there would be a new list of old items. You
> could do this again and again.

about:sessionrestore is still recursive (unfortunately). If you have a previous about:sessionrestore open in your session, it will be saved and you can restore from it.

What it sounds like is that you're expecting to be able to open about:sessionrestore at any point, which no longer works. To restore your previous session you need to go to history > restore previous session (or see it on the default home page).

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

invalid (working as designed) based on comment 2.