If "browser.sessionstore.restore_hidden_tabs" is not changed to TRUE, open tabs and their history may be "lost" on restore/restart

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If "browser.sessionstore.restore_hidden_tabs" is not changed to TRUE, open tabs and their history may be "lost" on restore/restart #6

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

TGM uses hidden tabs in some way. If tabs are not fully loaded, or unloaded, or 
some other circumstances apply, then after a restart or restore, these tabs 
will reload as "new tab" or missing, and will be completely lost. Their tab 
history, and other data allowing BACK or restore also gets completely lost.

I wrote this up on Mozilla forums (with its fix) a while back, and since then I 
have also came across at other users who have had the same perplexing "tabs 
being randomly lost" issue with TGM+Firefox.

The issue is not recent, and not hard to fix, but it seems the original 
developer never fixed it.

The fix is that TGM must set (and check on startup, or override!) 
"browser.sessionstore.restore_hidden_tabs" to TRUE.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Stilezy on 12 Jun 2013 at 2:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Marking as "high" because of significant impact & known (and expected quick!) 
confirmed resolution

Original comment by Stilezy on 12 Jun 2013 at 3:11

Added labels: Priority-High
Removed labels: Priority-Medium

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Stilezy on 13 Jun 2013 at 2:27

Changed state: Accepted

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Stilezy on 13 Jun 2013 at 2:32

Changed state: New

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Stilezy on 18 Jun 2013 at 11:07

Added labels: TGM-1issues

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Stilezy on 18 Jun 2013 at 11:11

Added labels: Milestone-TGM1_issues
Removed labels: TGM-1issues

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Since we have changed the way the tabs are hidden (now are collapsed, and never 
hidden), this issue could have been solved, but it should require a lot of 
testing before we close this issue. Im not sure but, this issue could be also 
related to a partial fix made or never made to the core of Firefox, the same 
than the Issue 11:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261826
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786484
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595601

How to Reproduce the Issue:
- Save your TGM Session before any test. Make a secutity copy of Firefox 
Folder, or use VMWare.
- One of the ways to test and try to reproduce this issue is to close Firefox 
with Process Explorer while its running and doing a lot of work, using a lot of 
CPU. That will force Firefox to close and probably to get back all the tabs 
when its restarted.

Original comment by miguelro...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2013 at 7:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago


-  Schedule QA for 104.0

Original comment by tgmj...@gmx.com on 9 Sep 2013 at 11:04

Changed state: Accepted
Added labels: Priority-Low
Removed labels: Priority-High

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by tgmj...@gmx.com on 9 Sep 2013 at 11:04

Added labels: Milestone-104.0
Removed labels: Milestone-TGM1_issues