Brave-browser: Updating Brave causes session to be lost

[vertigo220]

Description

After updating to most recent version (Version 0.60.45 Chromium: 72.0.3626.109 (Official Build) (64-bit)), Brave failed to restart as well as restore previous session. After telling it to restart then waiting a few minutes, I manually started it, and then my tabs from my previous session (before updating/restarting) were gone, despite having it set in options to load them.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to Settings > On Startup and enable the "Continue where you left off" option
2. Open several tabs
3. Update Brave
4. Restart Brave

Actual result:

See description

Expected result:

Brave should actually restart, and the option should be honored (tabs that were open before should be reopened).

Reproduces how often:

Not sure, just updated and it happened.

Brave version (brave://version info)

See above.

Reproducible on current release:

• Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds?

Website problems only:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Additional Information

[GeetaSarvadnya]

Upgraded profile from 0.59.35 to 0.60.45 Windows 10 x64 - Unable to reproduce
Upgraded profile from 0.58.21 to 0.60.45 Windows 10 x64 - Unable to reproduce

@vertigo220 Before upgrade what was the brave version?

[rebron]

cc: @kjozwiak to check

[Kinantb]

This happened to me recently as well

[GeetaSarvadnya]

Verified upgrade scenarios in Windows 10 x64.

1. Upgraded from 0.64.77 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
2. Upgraded from 0.63.55 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
3. Upgraded from 0.63.52 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
4. Upgraded from 0.63.48 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
5. Upgraded from 0.63.46 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade

[Kinantb]

Verified upgrade scenarios in Windows 10 x64.

1. Upgraded from 0.64.77 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
2. Upgraded from 0.63.55 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
3. Upgraded from 0.63.52 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
4. Upgraded from 0.63.48 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade
5. Upgraded from 0.63.46 to 0.65.118 - Working as expected, did not lose any sessions after upgrade

Well this happened on Ubuntu 18.04 (sorry I forgot to mention)

[vertigo220]

I don't know what version it was on when it happened. I don't necessarily upgrade every version, especially on my Surface (Win 10, btw), and I don't really pay attention to the version numbers, especially the old one. And just because it doesn't happen in your testing, doesn't mean it can't happen.

[kjozwiak]

@Kinantb @vertigo220 when you run into this issue and lose tabs/windows, have you tried restoring them from the Recently Closed section under History? Sometimes when Brave doesn't re-open all the previous windows/tabs after an update, you should be able to restore them from the Recently Closed section.

[Kinantb]

@kjozwiak yes I tried to do so but that list only contained the recently opened ones. As the ones who are delayed-loaded on demand (which made the majority of my tabs) are not counted as "recently closed".

[vertigo220]

It was too long ago to remember. I rarely use Brave, so it's possible it might be a more frequent issue (for me at least) but I just don't see it because I don't use it much.

[bsclifton]

I've had this happen to me- but only when Brave crashes. When that happens, it seems to lose the history from that session (so you can't just re-open recently closed windows, since they don't show)

[Kinantb]

This happened to me again recently, but thankfully now I have a session manager to restore my tabs, otherwise I would have just left the browser for good because it is a very annoying problem

[kjozwiak]

but thankfully now I have a session manager to restore my tabs

Just curious, do you mean the Brave session manager or a third party extension?

[Kinantb]

but thankfully now I have a session manager to restore my tabs

Just curious, do you mean the Brave session manager or a third party extension?

Third party

[flyingscot5]

This issue still happens on Brave release version 1.0.1

And to extend the issue restart your windows pc also loses all tabs that were open.

[tnettle]

Still happening in 2020 with Brave version Version 1.3.115 Chromium: 80.0.3987.87 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10 . Must be a fix coming soon.

[ljosephpratt]

Still happening.

Brave Browser_2020-06-25-171615_WEX-W700077.crash.txt