On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:54:55AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 04:31:01PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > Package: iceweasel
> > > Version: 6.0.2-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > Previously, when I quit iceweasel with ctrl-Q, I'd get my session back
> > > next time I ran it. (By contrast, if I closed iceweasel by closing the
> > > last tab, I wouldn't, which worked out perfectly.) Now, I have to
> > > manually either open about:home (I normally use a blank homepage) and
> > > click on "restore previous session", or use Iceweasel->History->Restore
> > > Previous Session.
> > >
> > > I don't mind if this requires an extra click, but I don't want to have
> > > to dig through the menus or open about:home to get to it. Perhaps
> > > iceweasel could automatically show a page with the "restore session"
> > > button on it when launched with a saved session, or alternatively
> > > perhaps it could go straight to the "what pages would you like to
> > > restore" page. Either way, I'd like to have session restoration become
> > > a lot more automatic.
> >
> > Your settings must be wrong, because I've been doing this since well
> > before iceweasel 4, and it still works here.
> > Please check your startup preferences under the General category of the
> > preferences dialog.
>
> I've had the same startup preferences since before iceweasel 3:
> user_pref("browser.startup.page", 0); AKA "Show a blank page". Session
> restore used to work automatically for me: if the browser crashed, or I
> closed the browser without closing individual tabs (Ctrl-Q, Alt-F4,
> closing via the window manager), the session would restore automatically
> on next launch. Recently, though, this behavior changed: I still get
> the session restore behavior if Firefox *crashes*, but not if I close it
> with tabs open.
And that's the expected behaviour.
If you want the session to always be restored, choose "Show my windows
and tabs from last time".
Mike
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