682964 - Quitting with only 1 blank tab resets session

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Alervd]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Build ID: 20110811165603

Steps to reproduce:

Set Options | General, "When Firefox starts" setting to "Show my windows and tabs from last time".
OK, it works if you have at least one tab loaded. 
But if you close all tabs so there will be only 1 "about:blank" tab and close browser, then after you start it again it often loads some random pages you visited in the past.


Actual results:

Does not restore properly with one "about:blank" tab only.


Expected results:

It should start with one "about:blank" tab.

Comment 1

[Alervd]

This bug exists in 3.x, 4.x and 5.x versions of Firefox also.

Comment 2

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

Those random pages should be your home page(s). Closing with only a blank tab currently treats that as a blank session, so it doesn't get restored. There's a bug somewhere on this issue, but I can't seem to find it right now.

Comment 3

[Alervd]

No, those random pages are not my home pages. They are just some random pages I visited in the past.

Comment 4

[Mihaela Velimiroviciu (:mihaelav)]

Aurora:
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0a2) Gecko/20110915 Firefox/8.0a2
Build ID: 20110915042012

Nightly:
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110915 Firefox/9.0a1
Build ID: 20110915030845

6.0.2:
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110902133214

Could not reproduce the issue on Release, Aurora nor Nightly: with the settings from bug description, if browser is closed with only one blank tab, when restarted it will not display any random page, but a blank tab.

Comment 5

[u279076]

@Alervd, are you able to reproduce this with Firefox 9.0a1 using while running in safe mode or using a new profile?

Comment 6

[Alervd]

Just follow these steps:
1. Open Firefox with 1 blank tab.
2. Open some web site in it
3. Open some link from this web site in new window.
4. Close opened window
5. Close opened web site leaving 1 blank tab
6. Exit Firefox.
7. Open Firefox. It will open web page from third point instead of opening with just blank tab.
I'll check 9 version when i have time for it.

Comment 7

[Mihaela Velimiroviciu (:mihaelav)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120212 Firefox/13.0a1

I followed the steps from comment #6 on the latest Nightly and at step 7 the home page is opened.

Alervd, do you still see the issue?

Comment 8

[Alervd]

Sorry, but now I use another option - always start with a blank tab.

But, I discovered another bug. Sorry. )))

When I'm trying to log in on some web page - it always asks me to store password or not. And I always tell it to not store. But it asks again and again. Stupidly.
... Oh.....

Comment 9

[Mihaela Velimiroviciu (:mihaelav)]

(In reply to Alervd from comment #8)
> Sorry, but now I use another option - always start with a blank tab.
> 

But if you set it beack to previous option, can you still reproduce?

> But, I discovered another bug. Sorry. )))
> 
> When I'm trying to log in on some web page - it always asks me to store
> password or not. And I always tell it to not store. But it asks again and
> again. Stupidly.
> ... Oh.....

How do you tell it not to store? When you log in, the doorhanger appears and you can choose from "Never Remember Password for This Site" or "Not Now". If you choose the first one it should not prompt again, but if you select the later it should ask every time until you select to "Remember Rassword" or "Never Remember Password for This Site".

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alervd ...

(In reply to Mihaela Velimiroviciu [QA] (:mihaelav) from comment #9)
> (In reply to Alervd from comment #8)
> > Sorry, but now I use another option - always start with a blank tab.
> > 
> 
> But if you set it beack to previous option, can you still reproduce?
> 
> > But, I discovered another bug. Sorry. )))
> > 
> > When I'm trying to log in on some web page - it always asks me to store
> > password or not. And I always tell it to not store. But it asks again and
> > again. Stupidly.
> > ... Oh.....
> 
> How do you tell it not to store? When you log in, the doorhanger appears and
> you can choose from "Never Remember Password for This Site" or "Not Now". If
> you choose the first one it should not prompt again, but if you select the
> later it should ask every time until you select to "Remember Rassword" or
> "Never Remember Password for This Site".

Comment 11

[Alervd]

HI!
Yes, I reproduced the bug in 29.0 version of Firefox. It reproduces every restart of Firefox.

Comment 12

[B.J. Herbison]

Does this still happen?