Firefox v14.0.1, WinXP, changes window order on FF restart
A similar question was asked about 4 months ago, with no confirmed answer: after a FF 14.0.1 restart (say, after a crash or when the Firefox task is terminated from Task Manager), the ORDER of the restored windows is different than it was at shutdown.
In some cases it appears the first window (the one at the bottom of the Windows taskbar display for FF windows) at restart is that which was the active window when Firefox stopped. Otherwise, the order can sometimes seem unpredictable.
(Let's say I have 5 FF windows open, each with a list of specific tabs, and assume they are shown as the taskbar in a popup as:
5
4
3
2
1
What I want is for FF to behave as it used to following a crash or restart, and PRESERVE this order, instead of transforming it to, say,
5
4
2
1
3)
Surely this should be the default behavior? If not, how I can I remedy this?
Thanks in advance.
Chosen solution
May be related. Discussion in Bugzilla; do not post in Bugzilla unless you can supply code example to solve the problem. Appears related to MRU (most recently used) order. Seems to only affect Firefox after version 8.
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712763 (Corrected link)
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Hi,
The session information is by default saved every 15 seconds. The active window is saved as selectedWindow in sessionstore.js. If for ex. we change the active window but Firefox is force closed before the next 15 secs the information may not be updated. Please note that this is not a technical explanation, just a thought :) One way you could check is by reducing the time of browser.sessionstore.interval, change to a new Window, wait for the time to elapse and force close Firefox.
This is very interesting information, thank you very much. I can see changes in sessionrestore.js over time, but -- so far -- nothing which appears to control the window order display. The list of windows and tabs in this file (starts at the beginning of the file with [{"windows":[{"tabs":[{"entries":[{"url) is, at least at the moment, in the order of the window display.
I will check those entries after the next forced restart to see if the window order there has been modified somehow; but I'm still very interested to know why such a thing would ever occur.
Thank again, though, for the pointers.
Chosen Solution
May be related. Discussion in Bugzilla; do not post in Bugzilla unless you can supply code example to solve the problem. Appears related to MRU (most recently used) order. Seems to only affect Firefox after version 8.
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712763 (Corrected link)
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Modified by SafeBrowser
Again, interesting, thanks for the tip. I am still evaluating the code fragment in that post to ensure it provides only a display of the windows/tabs rather than a modification of the active .js file, but so far it seems to be a nice p.d. tool.
Everything in your post, the problem description (712763) and thread in bugzilla, and the bypass-fix, match exactly the symptoms I see.
Thanks very much!
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Modified by belboz