Saving multiple tabs on Iceweasel 4.0x

jdkaye · 05-17-2011, 02:42 AM

I'm running Iceweasel (amd64 architecture) version 4.0.1 on Debian Wheezy/Sid/Experimental. My problem is getting Iceweasel to restore saved multilple tables when restarting it. I have done all the obvious things like setting the browser.tabs.warnOnClose, ...warnOnOpen, browser.warnOnRestart, ...warnOnQuit to TRUE. I get a dialogue box when I exit asking if I want to restore my tabs when I restart and I click "Save and Quit" but then when I do restart... no tabs!

Any ideas out there?
Cheers,
jdk

lugoteehalt · 05-17-2011, 10:16 PM

I've had that problem too. Don't know how to fix it, so probably should not post

. But the problem has gone away. Perhaps install firefox.

almatic · 05-18-2011, 08:58 AM

if you type "about:sessionrestore" in the adress field, does it show the saved tabs ?
as a workaround you can "pin" tabs to save them on every restart. Just right-click on the tab and select "pin as app-tab" (roughly translated).

AwesomeMachine · 05-18-2011, 09:14 AM

You can kill the iceweasel process id, and when you open it again, it'll have all you tabs saved.

jdkaye · 05-19-2011, 08:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lugoteehalt

I've had that problem too. Don't know how to fix it, so probably should not post

. But the problem has gone away. Perhaps install firefox.

Thanks Lugo,
I want a 64bit version which FFx doesn't offer except for its nightly builds and most of my plugins won't work on the nightlies.
ciao,
jdk

jdkaye · 05-19-2011, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by almatic

if you type "about:sessionrestore" in the adress field, does it show the saved tabs ?
as a workaround you can "pin" tabs to save them on every restart. Just right-click on the tab and select "pin as app-tab" (roughly translated).

Thanks almatic,
Nope doesn't help. about:sessionrestore doesn't have access to the saved tabs so when I run it I get no saved tabs when using the restore option. It just gives me one blank tab.
ciao,
jdk

jdkaye · 05-19-2011, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AwesomeMachine

You can kill the iceweasel process id, and when you open it again, it'll have all you tabs saved.

Thanks awesome but when I try your suggestion - have iceweasel open with a few tabs used and then kill the process and then restart iceweasel, no tabs are saved and all I get is a single "New Tab" showing.

Thanks for all the suggestions but this one appears to be still unsolved.
Ciao,
jdk

alan_ri · 05-19-2011, 03:08 PM

It's working here perfectly well. All I did was > Edit > Preferences > General > Startup > When Iceweasel starts > Show my windows and tabs from last time.

jdkaye · 05-20-2011, 12:04 AM

Thanks Alan,
Nope. Still no joy. I set my Edit>Preferernces ... exactly as you suggested. The only effect was to eliminate the dialogue box on exiting (the one that asks you if you want to save your tabs for next time). When I restart I get no old tabs back; just one blank new tab. Are you using the Debian experimental version, amd64 of iceweasel?
ciao,
Jdk

alan_ri · 05-20-2011, 03:49 AM

It's Iceweasel 4.0.1 in "squeeze". Installed from http://mozilla.debian.net/.

Do you have Remember my browsing history set to true in Privacy?

I'll see what else could be done.

[EDIT]
Post the output when you start Iceweasel from terminal.

jdkaye · 05-20-2011, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alan_ri

It's Iceweasel 4.0.1 in "squeeze". Installed from http://mozilla.debian.net/.

Do you have Remember my browsing history set to true in Privacy?

I'll see what else could be done.

[EDIT]
Post the output when you start Iceweasel from terminal.

I didn't have that setting set to true in Privacy but I set it that way and still the same results: No recovered tabs.
Here is the terminal output.

Code:

jdkaye@AttilaII:~$ iceweasel
FoxyProxy settingsDir: /home/jdkaye/.mozilla/firefox/zqzrspcp.default/foxyproxy.xml
Opened debug file '/home/jdkaye/tmp/mozdebug'

ciao,
jdk

alan_ri · 05-20-2011, 02:07 PM

Sorry again, just a quick look, but are you using a proxy? If so, try not.

jdkaye · 05-20-2011, 11:22 PM

Hi Alan,
No need to be sorry. I know you are trying to help and I appreciate that.

No I'm not using a proxy. I looked in the mozdebug file and found nothing relevant for the tabs problem.
Anyway, I am using "Experimental" so I am not surprised that everything isn't perfect.
Thanks again,
jdk

alan_ri · 05-21-2011, 08:26 AM

I said sorry because I didn't have time to take a closer look.

About your problem, as I said, here on "squeeze" it just works. Have you tried to install it from http://mozilla.debian.net/?

jdkaye · 05-22-2011, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alan_ri

I said sorry because I didn't have time to take a closer look.

About your problem, as I said, here on "squeeze" it just works. Have you tried to install it from http://mozilla.debian.net/?

I'd be a bit concerned about dependency problems. To use the Experimental version I need special versions of xulrunner-2.0, libmozjs4d, etc. In any event the server (mozilla.debian.net) appears to be down at the moment.
Thanks,
jdk