Firefox loses session on upgrade
Bug #328765 reported by
Alex Mauer
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #309656: Firefox does not restore session after update.
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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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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.