I have done some more testing: Opened firefox to my homepage. I disabled Tor, restarted with the restart button that came up in the extension window. Tested restore, didn't work: just came up to a single blank page, no tabs. I opened a URL in a second tab (first was still blank). I opened add-ons and disabled Ad-Block, restarted as it told me to. It asked if I wanted to save my tabs, I said yes and it restarted. My blank page & the second tab were restored perfectly. Closed firefox. Started firefox. Went somewhere. Opened a new tab & went somewhere else. Closed firefox, selected save & quit. Opened firefox. I get a blank screen, nothing restored.
So, it seems that only when I save/restore from the restart button after disabling an extension, will it save. Under "Clear Private Data" I have browsing, download, saved form and search histories checked, as well as cache, offline website data, and authenticated sessions. It is set to clear all this when firefox closes. I am at a total loss as to why this is happening. Why does it ONLY save/restore successfully when I restart after disabling an extension? Are saved tabs considered authenticated sessions? ** Summary changed: - Firefox does not restore previous sessions' tabs when loading a URL from an application. + Firefox only restores previous session/tabs when restarting after disabling an extension. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 firefox3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 Ubuntu 8.04.1 Closed down firefox with 2 tabs open by hitting the X and selecting save & quit. Clicked on a URL in an application (happened to be mobloquer). URL loads, old tabs are never restored. Reloading firefox does not load tabs either...tabs aren't even shown in the history. Torbutton does NOTHING to non-tor pages, which the saved tabs were. + <EDIT: This statement is completely wrong, I don't know why I wrote this initially. My tabs have never restored since I installed 8.04 from scratch.> Tabs are saved and load just fine under ideal circumstances (i.e. close, save, reload - nothing fancy). + </EDIT> <venting>Tabs aren't freakin' rocket science, why are there so many problems?! This is probably the 3rd bug I have found with tabs. And none of them get any attention at all. It almost makes me sad that I can't get IE on here to have something that actually works.</venting> Off topic: Why does launchpad store login info in cookies? I have never had to enter my password for this site since I created my account months ago. Kinda weird to have that lax of security on a Linux oriented site... ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Oct 7 14:24:54 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686 ** Description changed: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 firefox3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 Ubuntu 8.04.1 Closed down firefox with 2 tabs open by hitting the X and selecting save & quit. Clicked on a URL in an application (happened to be mobloquer). URL loads, old tabs are never restored. Reloading firefox does not load tabs either...tabs aren't even shown in the history. Torbutton does NOTHING to non-tor pages, which the saved tabs were. - <EDIT: This statement is completely wrong, I don't know why I wrote this initially. My tabs have never restored since I installed 8.04 from scratch.> - Tabs are saved and load just fine under ideal circumstances (i.e. close, save, reload - nothing fancy). - </EDIT> + <EDIT: This statement is completely wrong, I don't know why I wrote this initially. My tabs have never restored since I installed 8.04 from scratch.>Tabs are saved and load just fine under ideal circumstances (i.e. close, save, reload - nothing fancy).</EDIT> - <venting>Tabs aren't freakin' rocket science, why are there so many - problems?! This is probably the 3rd bug I have found with tabs. And none - of them get any attention at all. It almost makes me sad that I can't - get IE on here to have something that actually works.</venting> - - Off topic: Why does launchpad store login info in cookies? I have never - had to enter my password for this site since I created my account months - ago. Kinda weird to have that lax of security on a Linux oriented - site... + <EDIT: Deleted venting/off-topic comments.> ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Oct 7 14:24:54 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686 -- Firefox only restores previous session/tabs when restarting after disabling an extension. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279774 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
