683516 - Pinned app tabs disappearing when close on top left icon

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 587400

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.1
Build ID: 20110830092941

Steps to reproduce:

Please change the behaviour of the top right close icon to keep our precious pinned as app tabs. Thank you.

Comment 1

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA, PTO 22-30June]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110922 Firefox/9.0a1

Reporter, please can you confirm whether this issue is still reproducible when you start Firefox in safe mode or with a clean profile?http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Comment 2

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Hi Simona, 

I'm not sure why but it's no longer such a problem as when I first discovered pinned tabs. I think because I found and use the option 'Show my windows and tabs from last time' and that works most of the time.

It can still fail in this circumstance: 1 start Firefox with your usual pinned tabs as normal 2 start a second version of Firefox (which will start with just your hompages and not your pinned tabs) 3 close your first version with the pinned tabs and now if you close your second version next you will lose your pinned tabs.

Since I used to open and close new versions of Firefox willy-nilly I kept on losing my pinned tabs at first, but I've trained myself off from doing that.

Pinned tabs are enormously handy. Recent convert. Safe mode and profiles too hard for me, sorry. It would be nicer if you could somehow backup and restore your tab configuration from the menu, much as you can bookmarks.

Since we are here why not make tabs "on-off" (can't think of the proper term) i.e. click a tab you get the page, now click the tab again and you lose it and get back your last page. That would be enormously useful comparing info from different web pages and especially when in pairs.

Thanks for interesting yourself in my request.

Thank you.

William Boyd