open tabs lost on close with 2nd window in background

[gnarf]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When closing the main Firefox window and accidentially having other Firefox windows open in background, all open tabs will be closed and won't be restored anymore.
This also happens, when clicking on a weblink on the addon-update splash screen just before FF opens; a new windows with empty tabs will pop up, but FF will restart right after the addon's updates have finished, destroying the last tab session.

I tend to keep a bunch of frequently used tabs open a long time and it has caused quite some grief more than once, since using the tab history doesn't help much here.
I'm using FF 3.0.14 on Xubuntu 8.04 64bit, btw.

In general, I'd prefer it, if there would be always a warning message in such cases at least, prior to closing the main window.
Alternatively, it might be nice to always preserving the tabs of the first opened window instance and asking the user if sequel windows' tabs should be added to the main tab session on occasions like above.

gnarf

[spodhajecki (spodhajecki)]

I can confirm this. If the downloads window is open and one exits FF none of the tabs will be saved. U9.04 FF 3.0.15 x86_64.
Also present in 9.10 netbook remix.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

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[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!