Workspaces except the first one lost all open tabs after 1.8b update

[Urfin13]

Captchas

• I have read the instructions.
• I have searched existing issues and avoided creating duplicates.
• I am not filing an enhancement request.

What happened?

After the last update (1.8b), 4 of my 5 workspaces (except the first one) have lost all open tabs, only the pinned ones remain.

Any fixes for this? Pretty nasty loss tbh.

Reproducible?

• I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

1.8b

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output if applicable

[Delamcode]

Control+Shift+T still seems to work. Seems that sessions aren't restored on app restart anymore?

[Urfin13]

The lost tabs are not in history either. Only a couple that I looked at recently.

[wogam]

They're there somewhere I think. If you cmd/ctrl+t and search the the tab name, you can 'switch to tab'. Meaning it's there somewhere.

[wogam]

Guys, here's a work around:

Download this addon:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tabs-list/

Or this one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tab-list-button-enhanced/

Go to the work space with lost tabs.
Click it from the extensions menu.
It will then list all the missing tabs, and you can 'open all'

[Urfin13]

@wogam It worked, thank you!

[0xi4o]

I lost nearly a 100 open, unpinned tabs after the latest update. @wogam's work around helped me retrieve all of it. Thank you!

[georg-stone]

Guys it's a blessing in disguise: we are teaching tab hoarders to close some damn tabs, you don't need 100

[Delamcode]

Guys, here's a work around:

Download this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tabs-list/

Or this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tab-list-button-enhanced/

Go to the work space with lost tabs. Click it from the extensions menu. It will then list all the missing tabs, and you can 'open all'

Very useful extension anyways, thanks. I wonder if then the cause for this is that tabs were hidden and not actually closed?

[Mortifier13]

My Flatpak install just updated last night to 1.8.1b and I lost all my tabs, none of these suggestions worked for me including the extensions.

[davidmickelsen]

The same thing happened to me upon update to 1.8.2b; wogam's workarounds did not work for me either, nor did any of the other suggestions. I have lost all my open tabs. Tab hoarder or not, I was relying on being able to return to those tabs. A solution from the Zen team would be most welcome.

[emoveo-design]

Didn't work for me.
This problem of losing tabs in not-active workspaces after an update has happened to me with every update since 1.8b.
I now am using 1.10b and still get this issue.
Not happening when i close / open ZEN between updates though.

The only solution i have right now is using Time machine backup to restore the last saved Profile folder after an update.
Really annoying bug...

[Delamcode]

@emoveo-design Maybe try setting up a new profile and see if that works, just as a test. You can always switch back to the old one if it doesn't help.

[zen-browser-auto]

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