888191 - Opening a private window while a regular window is open and then reopening the regular window causes the previous session to be completely cleared. (Pinned tabs and everything.)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 848355

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[Howard]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130624 Firefox/23.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130624004020

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Aurora normally.
2. Create a private window.
3. Close the 1st window.
4. Create a new regular window.



Actual results:

Previous session completely disappears. "Restore Session" button not available.


Expected results:

My previous session should've been restored.

Comment 1

[Loic]

With FF25, when I close the normal window, I see a pop-up warning about closing tabs. Do you see it?

Test with a clean profile too:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

This sounds like the same problem as bug 848355.

Comment 3

[Howard]

(In reply to Josh Matthews [:jdm] from comment #2)
> This sounds like the same problem as bug 848355.

Hmmmm, I didn't find that ticket when I searched for "Private Browsing."
Marking as duplicate.