Bug#642773: Session restore not automatic anymore

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:34:49AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:14:14PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I have browser.tabs.warnOnClose set to true, but Firefox doesn't prompt
> when closing, and doesn't save the tabs.  I'd sure like it if it did.
> 
> > Anyways, what you want is to set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to
> > false.
> 
> Ow, no, I definitely don't want *that*.

Oh yes you do, your complaint is that when closing the last tab and
starting the browser again, you get that last tab instead of a blank
tab. browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false would get you in a
state where you have a blank tab before actually closing the browser.

Mike