[tor-bugs] #8457 [TorBrowserButton]: Session Restore Broken

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#8457: Session Restore Broken
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 Reporter:  moonchild         |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:           
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:           
 Keywords:  tbb-usability     |         Parent:           
   Points:                    |   Actualpoints:           
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 I just upgraded to the tor-browser-2.3.25-4_en-US

 In Tor Button 1.4.x, when you set to Security->History, and unchecked the
 "Block History options", then Session restore would work as expected.

 In the new Tor Button 1.5 interface, there is:
 * Don't record browsing history or website data (enables Private Browsing
 Mode)

 If you unchecked "Don't record browsing history", you think this would
 enable the history AND the session restore. It does not.

 So in the new tor bundle, when I now set Options->General->"Show my
 windows and tabs from last time". Nothing Happens. All modern browsers
 have a session restore. Eliminating this feature makes the tor bundle
 unusable for me as a daily browser.

 Please fix this, so the tor bundle can be used as a functional daily
 browser again. I'm sure there are many users like me in Iran and China
 that use tor daily to get around repressive government firewalls. Many of
 us are not paranoid about possible privacy issues that enabling the
 session restore may create.

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