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firefox package

Firefox loses session on upgrade

Bug #328765 reported by Alex Mauer on 2009-02-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #309656: Firefox does not restore session after update. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

When Ubuntu's firefox package is upgraded by the package manager while Firefox is running, the update notifier urges the user to restart the browser as soon as possible. Unfortunately, if the user does this, firefox will lose all session information (open tabs).

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote on 2009-04-05:

Is bug 309656 a duplicate?

The workaround that I use is this: don't restart Firefox by pressing the 'Restart' button, instead kill firefox with 'killall firefox' in a terminal (or the Run dialog you get with Alt+F2). Then, when you restart, Firefox will ask if you want to restore your lost session, and do so.

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-04-29:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 309656, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.