956289 - contents of search box not preserved upon restart

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Session Restore, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Dan Jacobson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 Iceweasel/28.0a2 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131215004001

Steps to reproduce:

Started firefox
(user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3);)



Actual results:

The words I had last sitting in the Google search box at upper right were gone!

Comment 1

[Cornel Ionce [:noni]]

Indeed, it would be an interesting enhancement. 
Marking as New hoping someone will work on this in the future.

Comment 2

[hharchani]

I want to work on this bug/feature. Help me with that. I'm new here.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to hharchani from comment #2)
> I want to work on this bug/feature. Help me with that. I'm new here.

Comment 4

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I am spending less time on Session Restore these days, so let me dispatch you to Tim.

Comment 5

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

This might indeed be a nice enhancement but I'm not sure whether it really belongs to sessionstore. There possibly arguments for doing that but it might also better to store that with the search settings such as the currently selected search engine? Would we store a single value for this per session or a value per window as each of the windows' search fields might have different contents?