Well, things are now even worse... Today, I got the "Well, this is embarrasing..." window/tab restore window. I have had it many times over the years (not too much lately, which is odd, as I believe FF crashes on exit every time now...). I just click on restore, and all windows/tabs come up just fine.
This time was apparently no different. However, after I did I checked my email, i suddenly noticed that I had only four FF windows, instead of the usual ten or eleven. I pulled up the profile directory and session store backups directories, as I have been doing every session lately, and noted that the recovery.js/.bak files (created for this session upon startup, as usual) were only 4.8MB in size. My previous.js was as expected, about 23MB. I tried to get my tabs back (admittedly 2 weeks old, as previous.js was dated August 16). I shut down FF, deleted recovery.js, copied previous.js to recovery.js and restarted FF. BIG mistake - I should have copied previous.js TWICE, once to something FF would not have recognized... When FF restarted, it was again only 4 windows, again only about 4.8MB. And NOW, the previous.js file was dated today, and was only about 4.8MB. Where the hell is FF getting its windows/tabs info??!!?? It sure wasn't getting it from the recovery.js file after I copied previous.js to it, as it had been 23MB. It wasn't sessionstore.js, as I have yet to see anything labelled that(or cleanBackup) in either my profile directory or its sessionstore-backups directory since before I started this bug. And yes, I did check - both when FF was running, and when it was not running. [I suppose it's too late, but if anyone has any idea how to get back all my windows/tabs, I would be very grateful to hear it... Perhaps some temporary file, or trash directory - I did check tmp and my Trash - nothing obvious there...] By the way - is there any way of having FF take a running session and making a session store file somewhere on demand (hopefully with the ability to name it myself) so that I can copy it for disasters like this? -- 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/1606763 Title: Recently, when FF starts up, not all of the restored windows/tabs are the most recent ones. Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: With the latest FF (or perhaps one version before?) a weird thing happens when I start up my FF profile: Once all the windows and tabs are loaded, and I peruse the list of windows in my bottom panel, I will see things that were NOT as I left them when I shut FF down last. Ex. I see that one window has the focus tab (the one tab per window that actually gets loaded when FF starts up) has the text "BBQ Crock Pot..." This is a recipe that I no longer need, and have deleted - several times. The 4 tabs that follow that tab I also deleted. I have just deleted them again, but I know that when I start FF tomorrow, THERE they will be again... Next, there is a tab labeled "Rochester Gas..." a site where I can find low gas prices here in Rochester, NY. Now I know that when I leave this window, I leave it on the Weather tab almost every time. Probably once in the last couple of weeks it was on the gas prices tab when I shut FF down. Apparently THAT was the day that FF keeps resurrecting (for that window, at least...) Another window tab shows the correct tab, Google Translate, but when I go there to translate something, the text that it resurrects from "the last time" is actually from several sessions (maybe a week?) before (and naturally, it is something embarrassing that I wouldn't want people to see...! Of course.) Although it has finally gone away, there was one time that I opened up a window to look up probably 8 to 10 things on the same subject, finished with them, deleted the tabs, and then the window - but then had the window/tabs reappear every time FF loaded, perhaps for the next 4-5 days. --- Basically - something changed in FF that causes it to not load the most recent windows/tabs, but some earlier set. Now... this could mean that when shut down, FF IS saving the windows and tabs, but not loading the most recent set when re-starting.... OR FF is not always saving windows/tabs every time it shuts down, but is resurrecting the most recent copy it has available... Those are the two scenarios that I have thought up, but of course there are probably others... --- [NOTE: before I invoked ubuntu-bug to file this report, there was a weird problem that caused Amazon.com pages to display improperly and be almost unresponsive (memory problem? FF problem? Amazon problem? - who knows...) Anyway, I decided it would be good to shut FF down and restart. Apparently FF crashed during the shut-down (I had to delete .parentlock before I could restart the profile). So ubuntu-bug probably will have pulled in stuff that relates to that crash, that will have nothing to do with the bug I am reporting, as it is not a crash - merely weird behavior. ] ---------------------------------------------------------------- scott@scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-Plus:~$ uname -a Linux scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-Plus 4.4.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:06:14 UTC 2016 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux scott@scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-Plus:~$ lsb_release -dsc Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS xenial scott@scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-Plus:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION Lubuntu ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: firefox 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: scott 1240 F...m pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: scott 1240 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC2: scott 1240 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: scott 1240 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20160606113900 Channel: Unavailable CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Tue Jul 26 23:25:47 2016 DefaultProfileIncompatibleExtensions: English (South Africa) Language Pack - langpack-en...@firefox.mozilla.org English (GB) Language Pack - langpack-en...@firefox.mozilla.org Default - {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} DefaultProfilePlugins: Shockwave Flash - /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so DefaultProfilePrefSources: prefs.js ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-05 (83 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20160420.1) IpRoute: default via 192.168.0.1 dev enp0s7 192.168.0.0/24 dev enp0s7 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 MostRecentCrashID: bp-44f9dd73-a7cd-4e42-bc1b-3aa0f2160727 PciNetwork: Profile1IncompatibleExtensions: Global Menu Bar integration - globalm...@ubuntu.com English (South Africa) Language Pack - langpack-en...@firefox.mozilla.org English (GB) Language Pack - langpack-en...@firefox.mozilla.org Default - {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} Profile1PrefSources: prefs.js Profile2Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing Profile2IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite) Profile2Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing Profile2Plugins: Shockwave Flash - /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so Profile2PrefSources: prefs.js Profile2Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=47.0/20160606113900 (In use) Profile1 - LastVersion=28.0/20140410211157 (Out of date) Profile2 - LastVersion=47.0/20160606113900 RfKill: RunningIncompatibleAddons: True SourcePackage: firefox SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-44f9dd73-a7cd-4e42-bc1b-3aa0f2160727 bp-cb6c0288-10f2-4cc9-afdd-662552160622 bp-062d78b9-0997-469d-ac2b-2c25f2160620 bp-33012966-2403-4ed0-a9f0-e94f02160519 bp-649eea70-f030-4f17-857b-f9eeb2160510 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/10/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1802 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: M2N68-AM Plus dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1802:bd06/10/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM2N68-AMPlus:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1606763/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
