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Status: Assigned
Owner:
sabineb@chromium.org
Cc:
█ bauerb@chromium.org
chelamcherla@chromium.org
mastiz@chromium.org
█ tschumann@chromium.org
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OS: Android
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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[Internal] OOB: Chrome didn't restore my preferences: top websites, or continue where I left off isn't available

Project Member Reported by chelamcherla@chromium.org, Aug 2 
Filing this issue from buganizer - b/112030102

- Account you registered the device with: sebbes@google.com 
- Build Number: PD1A.180719.005 
- Serial Number: 872Y00ESY 

DESCRIPTION 
Got a new device, 
Restored my data from the cloud 
Opened ChromeBeta (my usual browser) 
Got signed-in with the same account 

OBSERVED 
Get only a new tab. 
Articles for you are personalized. 
New Tab Top websites are not mine. (never been to "l'équipe.fr 
<http://xn--quipe-9ra.fr>") 
Going in Recent Tabs or History I can't find any way to restore my tabs I 
had. 

EXPECTED 
New Tab Top websites and open tabs should be the same I had on my device 
from which I restored a backup from.

Comment 1 by chelamcherla@chromium.org, Aug 2

Cc: chelamcherla@chromium.org
Components: -UI>Browser>Mobile Services>Sync UI>Browser>Mobile>RecentTabs
Labels: Target-70 M-70 Triaged-Mobile FoundIn-70 OS-Android
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Tested this issue on Android and able to reproduce this issue.

Steps Followed:
1. Flashed  PD1A.180719.005 and signed with @google.com account
2. Opened Chrome browser and signed in with same account, synced data and observed sync of bookmarks, history -- but NTP top sites and open tabs are not synced.

Chrome versions tested:
60.0.3072.0, 68.0.3440.70 ; 70.0.3509.0(canary)

OS:
Android 9.0/PD1A.180719.005

Android Devices:
Pixel 2 XL

This seems to be a Non-Regression issue as same behavior is seen from M-60 builds. Leaving the issue as Untriaged  for further input's on this issue.
 
Thanks!

Comment 2 by tedc...@chromium.org, Aug 2

Cc: bauerb@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug android-fe-triaged Type-Feature
@bauerb - do you know any history about the backup/restore decisions we made with regards to settings/tabs?  I assume we relied heavily on the existing sync architecture and didn't want to have two parallel systems.

From a sync angle, I wonder if on a fresh install/fresh sign in, could we offer to restore all tabs from another device of a similar form factor (whether that be phone -> phone, desktop -> desktop).

Changing to feature request.

Comment 3 by bauerb@chromium.org, Aug 3

Owner: sabineb@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Yeah, we just let Sync take care of restoring anything that is synced. Of course, syncing sessions only means that open tabs from another device show up as a remote session, but I guess we could build on that to open one of those sessions.

Sabine, are you the PM for Sync now?
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