Chromium is reordering and losing tabs across restarts

Bug #1312601 reported by Didier Roche-Tolomelli
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This bug affects 31 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Trying with a fresh profile:
$ d=$(mktemp -d)
$ chromium-browser --user-data-dir=$d

Opens 20 tabs
quit (ensuring there is no indicator as well that will mean a process is still running)
restart chromium
Do that multiple times and you will lose some tabs after a while.

As well:
opens 20 tabs (the number isn't important here)
go to a tab that isn't the latest (like 8)
middle click to open a new link at new tab 9
restart chromium
-> this new tab will be set as tab 21 instead 9.

(PS: Note the one o at lose ;))

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: chromium-browser 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 25 10:41:49 2014
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-28 (696 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-01-23T11:28:50.317334

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Confirming here, the order change is trivial to reproduce (no need of as many tabs)

- open chromium from trusty release
- go to the settings, pick the option to restore the session
- open 4 tabs
- go to the second one, load a site, middle click on an url

-> the site opens in tab <3>

- close and restart chromium

the tab is at the end of the list

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Chad Miller (cmiller)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The "loose tabs in the session" is less trivial to reproduce (you need more tabs open), I can confirm that with ~20 tabs open, after closing/reopen some are missing (I took a screenshot before, it helps to compare)

There is a similar report upstream on http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=365052

Chad, could you have a look? That seems an annoying issue than we should resolve in the next upload if we can

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Martin Bodlák (martin-bodlak) wrote :

This is a nasty bug I have encountered from my very first steps on a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04. I am losing tabs all the time! How can I help to hunt the bug?

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Martin Bodlák (martin-bodlak) wrote :

I have noticed that it affects the pinned tabs.

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Mario S. (sm666) wrote :

hi, i've already mentioned this in a duplicate, yes, pinned tabs are the first ones to disappear.

really need a fix, this is annoying .... any help/info needed?

best
SM

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Muffin BOY (mattmuffin) wrote :

Hello,

I've add the exact same issue, both with Saucy and Trusty.

My current Chrome version is: Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972) (I think Didier provided all the necessary information in his post ;-) )

I noticed it because I would constantly lose the first saved tab upon restart.

To reproduce: open over 20 tabs, activate the "Continue where you left off" setting in the "On Startup" section. Restart the computer. Open Chromium again, and the first tab should disappear.

Take care

summary: - Chromium is reordering and losing tabs acroos restarts
+ Chromium is reordering and losing tabs across restarts
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Sergey Prokhorov (seriy-pr) wrote :

Have the same issue. It's very annoying. Also, pinned tabs are 1'st candidates to loose, but any other tab may be loosed too.

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ezzi mohammed (ezzi-mohammed1) wrote :

Chromium is reordering and losing tabs on the left (the first two tabs) acroos restarts

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
assignee: Chad Miller (cmiller) → nobody
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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