UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.16 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce the problem:
I have many open tabs in Chrome, and don't want to lose them when Chrome or the OS crashes. Chrome fortunately saves the tabs when "Continue where you left off" is selected.
The problem is that sometimes after a crash, I don't want to wait for Chrome to load all the tabs (and eat up all the RAM and drive the CPU usage to 100% - see issue 32061 ), and I need to open just one tab. I thought opening an Incognito window would do that, and then I would be able to launch Chrome normally and recover my tabs.
What happened is that after closing the Incognito session and launching Chrome normally, *all* my tabs were gone.
Needless to say, that was quite infuriating.
Reproduction steps:
1. Configure Chrome to "Continue where you left off" on startup
2. Close Chrome (to simulate a crash)
3. From the dock/taskbar, right click on the Chrome icon, then choose "New Incognito Window"
4. Open some tabs in the incognito window
5. Exit Chrome
6. Launch Chrome normally
What is the expected behavior?
Previous tabs are restore
What went wrong?
All tabs are lost
Did this work before? N/A
Chrome version: 69 Channel: beta
OS Version: 16.04
Flash Version:
This issues causes loss of user data and should be prioritized.
Comment 1 by susan.boorgula@chromium.org
, Sep 16