Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs

From	"tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs
Date	2024-06-13 00:40 +0200
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Le 12/06/2024 à 23:51, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:55:58PM +0200, tv.debian wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:40:01 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer
>> <calestyo@scientia.org> wrote:
>>> FYI:
>>>
>>> I haven't seen that behaviour after upgrading...  and I do have quite a
>>> few tabs in many windows open.
>>> Maybe it happens not in all configurations.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Something worth investigating: my experience is that this bug appears if
>> plasma-integration addon is installed (so likely KDE d-e is used), even if
>> it is disabled. When Firefox is launched after the upgrade it expects some
>> kind of password login, maybe a Mozilla account or maybe the main password
>> vault, but if this password is ignored the Firefox window will be blank, the
>> tabs will be forgotten, and the profile corrupt. In my case I couldn't find
>> my tabs in the history either, only restoring the profile from backup and
>> providing the password on first launch worked around the bug.
>> It is repeatable in my case, if I restore the original profile folder
>> (~.mozilla) all my tab history is gone again.
>>
>> Hope it makes sens and helps.
> 
> This sounds like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1901899

Yes, what I see on my systems corresponds to this bug(s). Tested on two 
more and got same symptoms, if user forgot the master password because 
it was setup a long time ago and not used, expect trouble...

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Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com> - 2024-06-12 21:50 +0200
  Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org> - 2024-06-12 22:50 +0200
  Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs "tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> - 2024-06-12 23:20 +0200
  Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs "tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> - 2024-06-13 00:40 +0200

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