755962 - Stuck in a really old restore session

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Every time I restart Aurora which I only do when it updates itself, when it starts back up it always looks like this:
http://cl.ly/GhxA
Except those were NOT the tabs I had previously opened. In fact, that was the state of tabs as about a month ago. 

Also, clicking to restore does not work. And clicking "Start new session" nothing happens.

Comment 1

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

Sounds like _something_ is resulting in your session file not being written. Whatever is on disk is definitely readable.

A couple things:
1. Check last modified timestamp on sessionstore.js in that profile.
2. Make sure sesssionstore.js is actually writable.
3. Check your error console on startup (and again when clicking buttons from the restore page)
4. See if this still happens when starting in safe mode.

Comment 2

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Right you are!
Here's what solved it:

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/h99k36us.default
$ sudo chmod -R -N .

Turns out I had weird ACL permissions on all files. 

I'm resolving the bug if you don't disagree. Perhaps Firefox should be able to complain more loudly about it or something. Up to you.

Comment 3

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

Glad it's not a problem with Firefox!

Let's call it WORKSFORME since we didn't have to fix anything in product.