Bug#642773: Session restore not automatic anymore

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:20:18AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:46:42AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:54:55AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 04:31:01PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > > Package: iceweasel
> > > > > Version: 6.0.2-1
> > > > > Severity: normal
> > > > > 
> > > > > Previously, when I quit iceweasel with ctrl-Q, I'd get my session back
> > > > > next time I ran it.  (By contrast, if I closed iceweasel by closing the
> > > > > last tab, I wouldn't, which worked out perfectly.)  Now, I have to
> > > > > manually either open about:home (I normally use a blank homepage) and
> > > > > click on "restore previous session", or use Iceweasel->History->Restore
> > > > > Previous Session.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't mind if this requires an extra click, but I don't want to have
> > > > > to dig through the menus or open about:home to get to it.  Perhaps
> > > > > iceweasel could automatically show a page with the "restore session"
> > > > > button on it when launched with a saved session, or alternatively
> > > > > perhaps it could go straight to the "what pages would you like to
> > > > > restore" page.  Either way, I'd like to have session restoration become
> > > > > a lot more automatic.
> > > > 
> > > > Your settings must be wrong, because I've been doing this since well
> > > > before iceweasel 4, and it still works here.
> > > > Please check your startup preferences under the General category of the
> > > > preferences dialog.
> > > 
> > > I've had the same startup preferences since before iceweasel 3:
> > > user_pref("browser.startup.page", 0); AKA "Show a blank page".  Session
> > > restore used to work automatically for me: if the browser crashed, or I
> > > closed the browser without closing individual tabs (Ctrl-Q, Alt-F4,
> > > closing via the window manager), the session would restore automatically
> > > on next launch.  Recently, though, this behavior changed: I still get
> > > the session restore behavior if Firefox *crashes*, but not if I close it
> > > with tabs open.
> > 
> > And that's the expected behaviour.
> > If you want the session to always be restored, choose "Show my windows
> > and tabs from last time".
> 
> That doesn't have the right effect either.  If I set it to "Show my
> windows and tabs from last time" (setting browser.startup.page to 3),
> then closing the browser by closing all of the tabs individually causes
> it to open up next time with the last tab I closed.  That doesn't match
> the ideal behavior I used to have, where closing all the individual tabs
> would cause the browser to re-open with no session, but closing multiple
> tabs at once (Ctrl-Q, Alt-F4, window manager close, kill/crash) would
> preserve them all in the session and restore them later.  (And I used to
> have that behavior with browser.startup.page set to 0.)

That's not possible. With browser.startup.page set to 0, you always get
a blank tab, whatever the status was when you closed. When
browser.tabs.warnOnClose is true (which is the default), it also asks
you if you want to save your tabs before quitting, and if you do, it
switches browser.startup.page to 3.

And I just verified so on 3.5.

Anyways, what you want is to set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to
false.

Mike