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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Nov 20
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OS: Linux
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"New Incognito Window" destroys session data, loses all tabs

Project Member Reported by dandv@google.com, Sep 15

Issue description

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.
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M69
Cc: rhalavati@chromium.org
Cc: phanindra.mandapaka@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback Triaged-ET
dandv@ Thanks for the issue...

Tried to reproduce the issue on chrome version 69.0.3497.100 and latest beta 70.0.3538.45 using Ubuntu 17.10. Unable to attaching screencast for reference.
Steps: 
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0. Launched reported chrome 
1. Configured Chrome to "Continue where you left off" on startup
2. Closed Chrome 
3. From the taskbar, right clicked on the Chrome icon, then selected "New Incognito Window"
4. Opened some tabs in the incognito window
5. Clicked on Exit Chrome
6. Launched Chrome normally
As we are observed that Previous tabs are restored 

@Reporter: Could you please check the process we followed and please let us know if anything missed from our end and requesting you provide chrome://crashes. 

Thanks..!
Cc: kkaluri@chromium.org
Labels: Hotlist-DesktopUIChecked
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
*** Mass UI Triage ***

We were unable to reproduce this bug. If this bug still reproduces for you, please reopen or file a new issue. 

Thanks!

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