In my experience, on Gnome or KDE every GUI window (not only from Mozilla) opens on whichever virtual desktop is current at the time the window opens. In particular: - if I start a GUI application from a desktop shortcut icon or an xterm then quickly change virtual desktops, the GUI will open on the new virtual desktop; - an alert popup relating to some window on a non-current virtual desktop may appear on the current one if it is "floating" (like our Preferences dialog) and not "tied to its window" (like the SeaMonkey button palette).
This happens to me the same way for every GUI, be it Firefox, Vim, LibreOffice, some KDE game, whatever. However: When logging out of X11 with some GUIs still open, then some window managers can restore them to the right virtual desktop at the next X11 login. (KDE window managers can even restore gvim compiled with the Gnome session restore feature built-in.) This of course does not apply to Mozilla apps as long as the preferred closedown method for them is Ctrl+Q or File→Quit rather than letting them be closed forcibly by the window manager. I don't know anything of MacOs with or without X, and I left Windows for good at a time when XP SP2 was state-of-the-art so I'm not going to talk about them. -- 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 Mozilla Firefox: 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
