Closed Bug 1326181 Opened 8 years ago Closed 1 year ago

Firefox doesn't support OS X session restore

Categories

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect, P2)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Session Restore
Platform:
Unspecified
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 639707

People

(Reporter: aleth, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 2 open bugs)

Details

Firefox doesn't play well with the OS X desktop session restore feature, which saves and restores open windows and documents across a system restart, whether manually triggered or during an OS update:

Apple Menu -> "Restart..."
Check "Reopen windows when logging back in" and reboot

Expected behaviour: An open Firefox instance should reappear with its tabs restored

Actual behaviour: No Firefox. Sometimes it seems Firefox doesn't even shut down cleanly, so even after a manual Firefox restart you get the "Well, this is embarrassing" session restore tab.

This is not a new bug, but I couldn't find an existing bug to dupe it to, so I'm filing it just in case.
Flags: needinfo?(mdeboer)
Blocks: ss-feature
Flags: needinfo?(mdeboer)
From bug 1458149 comment 0:

When restarted automatically on OS X (via the "Reopen windows when logging back in" option), we should restore the user's session even if the restore session option is not set.

Bug 603903 part 2 does this for Windows, we should use some of the same mechanism here.

See bug 603903 comment 37 for how the auto-restart situation can be detected.
Depends on: 603903
Priority: -- → P2
This hit me twice in the last two weeks when macOS unexpectedly had to restart. Firefox is the only program not starting again and, as described above, shows the session restore screen (albeit found no FF crash report).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I guess this can stay open for the session restore part. Bug 639707 will handle the cocoa part.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Depends on: 639707
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Severity: normal → S3

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 4 duplicates and 22 votes.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Flags: needinfo?(dao+bmo)

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.

Flags: needinfo?(dao+bmo)

I'd like to back up comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1326181#c9 and encourage increasing the severity.

I personally find it super frustrating every time I restart the computer (including OS updates). And I do roll my eyes a bit that we don't have parity here.

From an org perspective as well, if we want people to be using Firefox having it open and ready to go makes that, faster, easier, and so more likely.

This will be addressed by bug 639707.

Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago → 1 year ago
Duplicate of bug: 639707
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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