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| Started by | Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com> |
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| First post | 2024-06-12 21:50 +0200 |
| Last post | 2024-06-13 00:40 +0200 |
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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
| From | Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com> |
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| Date | 2024-06-12 21:50 +0200 |
| Subject | Bug#1073074: firefox: looses previous tabs |
| Message-ID | <IOC8N-2rMn-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
Package: firefox Version: 127.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, After upgrading to 127, - It does not open my previous tabs on start, causing me to loose much work - Even exiting and restarting, it will not keep track of tabs going forward (and yes startup is set to "Open previous windows and tabs") - Even "bugreport" which attempted to open up a firefox window on the debian bugs site jsut ended up opening a window to my Home Page -- Package-specific info: -- Addons package information -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 5.17 ii fontconfig 2.15.0-1.1 ii libasound2t64 1.2.11-1+b1 ii libatk1.0-0t64 2.52.0-1 ii libc6 2.38-12 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.18.0-3+b1 ii libcairo2 1.18.0-3+b1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.14.10-4+b1 ii libevent-2.1-7t64 2.1.12-stable-10 ii libffi8 3.4.6-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-1.1 ii libfreetype6 2.13.2+dfsg-1+b4 ii libgcc-s1 14.1.0-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-1 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.80.2-2 ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.42-1 ii libnspr4 2:4.35-1.1+b1 ii libnss3 2:3.100-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.52.2+ds-1 ii libstdc++6 14.1.0-1 ii libvpx9 1.14.0-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.8.7-1+b1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.8.7-1+b1 ii libxcb-shm0 1.17.0-2 ii libxcb1 1.17.0-2 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.5-1+b1 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.6-1+b1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b1 ii libxfixes3 1:6.0.0-2+b1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.4-1 ii procps 2:4.0.4-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1 Versions of packages firefox recommends: ii libavcodec58 7:4.4.2-1+b3 ii libavcodec60 7:6.1.1-4 Versions of packages firefox suggests: pn fonts-lmodern <none> pn fonts-stix | otf-stix <none> ii libcanberra0t64 [libcanberra0] 0.30-12.2+b2 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20.1-6+b1 ii pulseaudio 16.1+dfsg1-5 -- no debconf information
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| From | Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org> |
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| Date | 2024-06-12 22:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <IOD4R-2slC-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #365066 |
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.
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| From | "tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> |
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| Date | 2024-06-12 23:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <IODxT-2sLo-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #365066 |
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:55:58 +0200 "tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> 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. > > Allow me to correct myself, after testing on more systems plasma-integration is a red herring, the message I get on first launch seems unrelated, what affects the outcome is the Mozilla account.
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| From | "tv.debian" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> |
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| Date | 2024-06-13 00:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <IOENj-2twT-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #365066 |
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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