Launchpad has imported 19 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372650.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-03-05T08:36:38+00:00 Jcdeprez wrote: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.2 (Ubuntu-edgy) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.2 (Ubuntu-edgy) All windows of a session are restored in the same virtual desktop although originally they were in different desktop. (it seems that the restore data do not keep information about windows in which virtual desktop were in). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start firefox windows in several desktop 2. shut down Ubuntu 3. start firefox 4. select restore session Actual Results: All session windows pop up in same desktop windows Expected Results: Windows should appear in the previous desktop they were in (it may be that this bug is somewhat related to #339445) Although this is not a blocking bug, I believe it is a true inconvenient. Beside unexpected crashes (which are few), the restore session is useful not to bookmark pages (those that are of temporary interest) and still be able to get them back after shutting down or restarting the system. When using the restore session in that way, one may have opened 20 firefox windows spread over 4 desktops. Having to finish the restore by putting the windows back in their virtual desktop, is minor but still a pain. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-04-26T20:50:45+00:00 L. David Baron wrote: This has been bugging me for a while as well. (I go through the drill of restoring windows to their correct screens every time I restore a session.) I was thinking about how we could implement it. I think the way it would need to be done would be to have each platform's widget code provide a string representation of the screen that a window is on, and allow chrome to get and set that representation. But we should definitely be careful not to restore windows to a screen that no longer exists. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-03-07T13:41:02+00:00 Zeniko wrote: *** Bug 420648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-03-30T12:29:31+00:00 Zeniko wrote: *** Bug 426031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-03-30T13:28:05+00:00 Clint-bowman wrote: Additional information requiring an explanation: For the past several weeks session restore has worked perfectly, restoring each of my 18 Firefox windows to the correct KDE desktop (seven separate desktops of the 20 I use.) Can someone who is familiar with the workings of Firefox and session manager explain how that can be? I've seen this happen sporadically before, both at work and at home, but I'm getting consistently correct restores for past the nine or ten times I've turned on the computer. I think it seems to work if I respond to the session restore window from the same desktop I was in at shutdown--I haven't experimented because I don't want to disturb anything (I'm enjoying getting the restore correct!) Is there something about KDE that interacts with Firefox to make the correct restore? I'd love to go looking at code but all my programming has been with text (scientific stuff that produces numbers that get visualized by other aplications written by others.) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-08-17T17:39:15+00:00 Robert-bradbury wrote: Clint, I can explain part of it. The Firefox session manager does not save in the "sessionstore.js" file which workspace it was operating in. And so it cannot restore a Firefox session back to its original state. Now the restoration of an "original state" may be a bit different for Gnome, KDE, (other window managers) because I would expect slotting windows/tabs into their respective locations would require different code. (I am speaking Linux here and obviously Windows being a monopoly is different.) But I am not a window manager expert. If they adopted the same programming conventions it might not be too difficult. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-08-17T17:48:11+00:00 L. David Baron wrote: Some window managers do multiple desktops by having one large space that windows can be moved across. (In such window managers, you can generally have a window that appears partially on one desktop and partially on another.) In these window managers the desktop of the window is stored simply by its coordinates in the large space, and we are just restoring those large coordinates, since we restore the window's position. (However, this can cause problems if you ever change screen resolution. Some window managers, like compiz, don't even handle fixing the position of windows currently open when doing changing screen resolution. But the window manager couldn't simply do it automatically with session restore.) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-08-17T21:34:57+00:00 Robert-bradbury wrote: David, thank you for the explanation. It provided information which I was previously unaware of. But the fact that some window managers could be classified as "deficient" does not exclude one from programming for those which are "sufficient". Given that Linux tends to run on two primary desktops (Gnome and KDE) it would not be unreasonable to tailor Firefox for those two environments. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2009-02-08T16:46:49+00:00 Sylvain Pasche wrote: Let's make this one the cross platform implementation of the virtual desktop restoration. Restoring to the original screen should be implemented already (minus Linux window manager override or bug 461285 on mac). Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2009-06-09T01:20:27+00:00 Kevin Brosnan wrote: *** Bug 478615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2009-11-04T18:24:52+00:00 Paul-oshannessy wrote: *** Bug 526516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-01-26T00:21:59+00:00 Paul-oshannessy wrote: *** Bug 542124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-03-31T20:06:36+00:00 Kevin Brosnan wrote: *** Bug 556360 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-08-16T17:08:01+00:00 Paul-oshannessy wrote: *** Bug 587328 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-12-27T20:01:23+00:00 Bzbarsky wrote: *** Bug 621555 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-16T02:43:06+00:00 David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: I typically have several hundred windows in a session, and rely heavily on categorizing them using desktops, so it takes a huge amount of time to move them back manually after a crash. This almost defeats the point of using virtual desktops for me (more so because FF crashes too often, but that's not for this ticket). Clint: which window manager are you using, or what other setting might have changed in order for this to work? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-16T03:17:33+00:00 Clint-bowman wrote: I'm using KDE with 20 desktops, both at home and at work. The OS at home is Fedora 13, at work I use Scientific Linux 5.3 (RHEL 5.3 clone). Under Fedora 13, if I make sure that I move the Session Restore to the same desktop (I call it Web) before restoring Firefox, all 43 windows are restored to the correct desktops although some are in the wrong location within the desktop and are sized incorrectly--almost always too large. Under SL5.3 all of the Firefox windows are restored into the desktop I'm in when I restore Firefox. Also many of the Firefox windows are not sized correctly. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-16T03:23:53+00:00 L. David Baron wrote: I'm guessing the two machines have different window managers or different window manager settings; there are two very different ways that window managers do multiple desktops; see comment 6 for a partial explanation. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-21T23:04:24+00:00 David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: Since I don't know what the two methods of implementing virtual desktops are called, I've had no luck in searching for settings that might influence this. Does anyone know? (My window manager is currently KWin, but I'm not averse to switching.) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/comments/20 ** Changed in: firefox Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: firefox Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684982 Title: Firefox windows don't restore on correct workspaces Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox Create two workspaces Open one firefox window on the first workspace, second on the second one. Quit (or crash) firefox, specifying "Yes, remember my windows" Expected behavior: second window shows up on second workspace Actual behavior: Both windows appear on the current workspace To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/684982/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
