997249 - Recent Tabs History Tab (List) is always empty if Always Restore is set to true

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect, P5)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140410061737

Steps to reproduce:

Open Tabs
Close Firefox via Recent Apps
Open Firefox
Go to AwesomeScreen
Go to History
Go to Recent Tabs


Actual results:

Tabs List is Empty


Expected results:

Tabs List should be populated with all tabs from the last session even if the pref is set to restore tabs.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This works for me, Nightly (04/16).

Opened (http://mozilla.com), swiped Nightly off my application listing, re-opened Nightly went to the recent tabs list and saw that tab listed.

Comment 2

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> This works for me, Nightly (04/16).
> 
> Opened (http://mozilla.com), swiped Nightly off my application listing,
> re-opened Nightly went to the recent tabs list and saw that tab listed.

Do you have tabs set to always restore?

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

In both states, enabled or disabled, I continue to see my tab listed correctly.

Comment 4

[Paul [pwd]]

I've just uninstalled and reinstalled and it's empty.

Are you going to AwesomeScreen, sliding to History and clicking the bottom right tab?

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

That would be the spot where they live once a session is safely restored, yes. Is there more to your steps?

Comment 6

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #5)
> That would be the spot where they live once a session is safely restored,
> yes. Is there more to your steps?

Nope, quite literally.

Open Firefox, open tabs, close Firefox, reopen Firefox, go to recent tabs screen as described above and it's empty. Even on a new profile with no add-ons or sync data it's empty.

I've just checked with 28 (Play Store version) too. It had a tab in the list when tabs weren't set to be restored, however once enabling restore tabs and opening new tabs before closing Firefox, the new tabs aren't added to the list.

Basically as logic dictates, the list should be updated upon close of Firefox (or with each tab history (local history) change). But it would appear the list isn't being updated at all if you have tabs set to always be restored. Which is what caused the dataloss issue in bug 995741.

Comment 7

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Let's ask Michael if he can replicate this

Comment 8

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

I can repro on my Galaxy Nexus, latest Nightly (31), Android 4.2.2, and a Nexus 4, Android 4.4, fx-team pull from this morning.

Comment 9

[Teodora Vermesan (:TeoVermesan)]

I can also reproduce this on Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.2.2) and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (Android 4.2.2 ) on Firefox for Android 33.0a1 (2014-06-26). Recent Tab list is empty after I open a few tabs and close Nightly with Always Restore option set.

Comment 10

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

filter on [mass-p5]

Comment 11

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Retriage me!

Comment 12

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Discussed. Don't want to track for a specific release. Do you want to mentor it?

Comment 13

[Anthony Lam (:antlam) Find me, @antlam on Slack!]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #12)
> Discussed. Don't want to track for a specific release. Do you want to mentor
> it?

:)

Comment 14

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

I can no longer reproduce this – 48 beta on GS4 & 50 nightly on GS5.