firefox does not remember saved tabs between sessions

[Kyle Martin]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Whenever I close out of Firefox with multiple tabs running, I select "Save and quit" at the dialog box asking if I want to save my tabs for when I next go online. When I open Firefox up again, all I get is a blank page, nothing in the address bar, nothing on screen, and no tabs.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.2+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
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 2.6.27-4-generic x86_64

[Derek White (d-man97)]

I can confirm this is happening. At first, it seemed like every time I saved tabs/session, then performed an upgrade to new version, my tabs would not be restored when restarting and seeing the firefox upgrade page; and, I believe this is still true, as it has happened the last 3 times I upgraded firefox.However, I am going to stick with the OP's problem for now.

Again, I confirm this is happening on firefox-3.0 (3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) [upgraded <1 hour ago]. This is the newer version that the OP does not have.

I do have torbutton installed, but NO setting is set to affect/delete/not store non-tor pages/tabs/history. It is set to "Prevent session store from saving Tor loaded tabs" but NOT set to "Prevent session store from saving Non-Tor loaded tabs", and the pages/tabs up were not tor pages and tor was even disabled.

I do have firefox clear browsing history on exit, but this has never affected tab/session saves before.

Problem happens exactly like Kyle says:
1) Exit & select "Save & Quit";
2) Start FF right back up [or upgrade to new version then start];
3) Blank page displayed [or upgrade page].

-Derek

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this sounds like a duplicate. please search ;).

[xobo (xow)]

I use ubuntu 8.10 too. firefox 3.0.4 for {{{ Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4}}}
I set in preferences under the main tab the option:- "Show My windows and tab from last time" . and even after restarting firefox it doesn't reopen the last tabs. When I close firefox it does not give me the option to remember the tabs.
How do you select "save and quite"?
Thank you
Xobo

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

xobo wrote:
> I use ubuntu 8.10 too. firefox 3.0.4 for {{{ Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4}}}
> I set in preferences under the main tab the option:- "Show My windows and tab from last time" . and even after restarting firefox it doesn't reopen the last tabs. When I close firefox it does not give me the option to remember the tabs.
> How do you select "save and quite"?
> Thank you
> Xobo
>
>
how do you close firefox?

status incomplete

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

I have exactly the same problem, on an AMD64 box.

Strangely though, after I've used the "Save" dialogue, sometimes it works, but generally I get a blank tab when opening, not even my home page.

Let me know if I can provide further info.

Cheers,

Chris.