On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:14:14PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:20:18AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:46:42AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > 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". > > > > That doesn't have the right effect either. If I set it to "Show my > > windows and tabs from last time" (setting browser.startup.page to 3), > > then closing the browser by closing all of the tabs individually causes > > it to open up next time with the last tab I closed. That doesn't match > > the ideal behavior I used to have, where closing all the individual tabs > > would cause the browser to re-open with no session, but closing multiple > > tabs at once (Ctrl-Q, Alt-F4, window manager close, kill/crash) would > > preserve them all in the session and restore them later. (And I used to > > have that behavior with browser.startup.page set to 0.) > > That's not possible. With browser.startup.page set to 0, you always get > a blank tab, whatever the status was when you closed. When > browser.tabs.warnOnClose is true (which is the default), it also asks > you if you want to save your tabs before quitting, and if you do, it > switches browser.startup.page to 3.
I have browser.tabs.warnOnClose set to true, but Firefox doesn't prompt when closing, and doesn't save the tabs. I'd sure like it if it did. > Anyways, what you want is to set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to > false. Ow, no, I definitely don't want *that*. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org