Tridactyl: ZZ/qall breaks "show your tabs and windows from last time"

[mMontu]

If you have multiple Firefox windows open and leave through Ctrl+Shift+Q, all the windows are restored when Firefox restarts (due to show your tabs and windows from last time preference).

But if you leave through ZZ then a single window is restore on the next session; all the other windows are lost.

[thejukra]

I can confirm this. Behaves just as mMontu described.

Tough after leaving with ZZ and restarting Firefox with Tridactyl the last opened windows may be restored from Library -> History -> Recently closed windows.

[bovine3dom]

Yeah, sorry about this. Last time I looked there wasn't a "quit Firefox" command, so we just have to close all of the windows. I'll have a look at it again - thanks for reporting it.

[bovine3dom]

We can probably just hack our away around this with a TriStart autocmd that checks to see if your most-recently-closed object was a window and then restores it.

[bovine3dom]

Dunno why I didn't think of this earlier: bind ZZ !s killall firefox works fine if you have the native messenger and killall installed.

Edit: this issue is so old that there's also the U key bound to undo window that will restore a lost window.

[zeorin]

My problem is that when running :qall, upon opening, some of the closed windows are not restored. Neither CTRL+SHIFT+N (native undo close window) nor U will recover the missing windows.
I currently have 7 windows open, with many tabs in each (one has 390 tabs, I know I have a problem).
When I last ran :qall (by accident, because, you know, vim-muscle-memory), and then opened Firefox again, only 3 of these windows were restored. The other windows are totally lost. If you’re like me, and keeping tabs around is how you keep your to-read lists, then this is a major problem.

It's not the 1st time that I've made this mistake.

Recovering from this mistake

Close Firefox.

For anybody else that has the same problem, I (mostly) recovered from this by copying the missing windows from the last upgrade backup session.
In $profile/sessionstore-backups there are usually the following files:

previous.jsonlz4
recovery.baklz4
recovery.jsonlz4
upgrade.jsonlz4-$timestamp

There may be multiple of the upgrade backup files.

Your current session file will be at $profile/sessionstore.jsonlz4.

These files are compressed using a Mozilla-specific lz4 compression algo (don't ask). I use https://github.com/jusw85/mozlz4 to uncompress these.

In my experience, the previous.jsonlz4, recovery.baklz4, and recovery.jsonlz4 files are basically the same as one another and as sessionstore.jsonlz4 (there might be slight timestamp differences in the content data).

So these are of no help, either. The most recent upgrade session backup is where I look for the missing windows. The uncompressed files will be huge single-line JSON files. Hopefully your editor can pretty-print them, if not, you can use the python -m json.tool command-line utility (I run :%!python -m json.tool in Vim) to format them. The data structure is pretty clear, IMO, so you should be able to figure out what to copy where.

Then just re-compress the sessionstore.jsonlz4 and place it in the root of your Firefox profile folder. Start Firefox, and presto!, your windows are back (assuming that the last upgrade backup was recent enough for you)

Avoiding this mistake again

:alias qall noop

This will also handle ZZ and :qa, since they both call :qall.