859043 - Getting "Well, this is embarrassing" message each time when opening FF, on Mac, perhaps since FF 20.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 845681

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Tobi Reif]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130326150557

Steps to reproduce:

Opened Firefox.


Actual results:

Got "Well, this is embarrassing." "Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs." although there was no crash / Force Quit, and although I hadn't changed any settings. Perhaps the issue happens since the update to version 20.0 .


Expected results:

Normal start.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Are you able to reproduce the issue with a fresh profile and a few tabs loaded?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 2

[Loic]

Email from the reporter:
"Hi

I created a new Firefox profile for testing, the issue didn't happen. Tried some more things, can't reproduce the issue. Will switch to a fresh profile (as main profile, not for testing)."

So I close the bug.

Comment 3

[Tobi Reif]

The issue is still present, so I changed the status of the bug, I hope that's equivalent to reopening it.

The "Well, this is embarrassing" message often appears after reboot (on Mac OS X 10.7.5). Also perhaps relevant: I generally close Firefox via Dock -> FF icon -> click,hold -> Quit, with just file:///path/to/my_local_home_page.html open. Can you reproduce this? The "...embarassing..." message doesn't appear when I do "Firefox" -> "Quit Firefox" before shutting down the OS.

Comment 4

[Tiziana Sellitto [:tiziana]]

Can you verify if the problem happens after closing all open windows and then quit Firefox?

see bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845681#c2

Comment 5

[Tobi Reif]

I always leave one window open (which has my local home page file). Then before shutting down OS X, I do Dock -> Quit Firefox. This always worked fine, but recently (as reported) I'm getting the "embarassing" message.

What I described above should work, correct? (without the message)

I tried this right now: closed the last window, Dock -> Quit FF, start FF, got "Well, this is embarrassing".

Comment 6

[Tiziana Sellitto [:tiziana]]

I think(In reply to Tobi Reif from comment #5)
> I tried this right now: closed the last window, Dock -> Quit FF, start FF,
> got "Well, this is embarrassing".

I think your problem is the same of bug 845681 it has been fixed and you'll not have this problem in the next Firefox releases.

Thanks for reporting.