933679 - Private browsing is breaking option "Show my windows and tabs from last time"

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Filip Zakrzewski]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131028004004

Steps to reproduce:

- Configure Firefox to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-previous-session#w_configuring-session-restore

- open few tabs

- close Firefox

- open it (tabs are remembered!)

- open private mode (ctrl+shift+p)

- close normal mode (don't close private mode!)

- open Firefox in normal mode (without closing private mode!)


Actual results:

Tabs from normal mode which should be remembered are gone


Expected results:

Private mode shouldn't break or interfere with "Show my windows and tabs from last time" option.

Comment 1

[Filip Zakrzewski]

Expected results:

Private mode shouldn't break or interfere with "Show my windows and tabs from last time" option from normal browsing mode.

Comment 2

[Catalin Varga [QA][:VarCat]]

The issue is reproducible on FF Aurora 27.0a2 (2013-11-04), Win 7 x64.

Comment 3

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I suspect the issue here is that the session restore code sees a window being closed while Firefox is not shutting down and decides that it should not be remembered. We should decide what kind of interaction we want here.

Comment 4

[Brindusa Tot, DTE]

The issue is reproducible on Nightly 46.0a1, Win 7 x64.

Comment 6

[Peter Wong]

similar bug: 1053961

Comment 8

[Mike]

The issue is reproducible on Firefox 50.1.0, Win 7 x64.

Comment 10

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 3 duplicates and 21 votes.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 11

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.