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Firefox forgets previous page after loading public wifi login page.

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leonl
leonl
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First step. -- Connect to your private wifi. -- Open a webpage (say mozilla.org). -- Close firefox.

Second step. -- Connect to a public wifi with login page. -- Open firefox restoring the webpage remembered. -- The webpage opens the login page in place of mozilla.org. -- Close firefox.

Third step. -- Connect to your private wifi. -- Open firefox restoring the webpage remembered. -- The page loaded is the login page, not mozilla.org. Firefox forgot that you wanted to be on mozilla.org.

First step. -- Connect to your private wifi. -- Open a webpage (say mozilla.org). -- Close firefox. Second step. -- Connect to a public wifi with login page. -- Open firefox restoring the webpage remembered. -- The webpage opens the login page in place of mozilla.org. -- Close firefox. Third step. -- Connect to your private wifi. -- Open firefox restoring the webpage remembered. -- The page loaded is the login page, not mozilla.org. Firefox forgot that you wanted to be on mozilla.org.

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guigs
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Hi leonl, Thank you for your question and the steps to reproduce this. If you would like to see a change I would recommend filing a bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org.

However, in order to find a work around in the meantime I would be happy to troubleshoot further.

If the goal is to keep the page from last time you had Firefox open without loosing the page/or loosing the ability to go back please try the following:

If you go to about:home after logging into the public network you can use the "restore previous session" button to restore the page from last time.

I hope this helps.

leonl
leonl Question owner
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Thank you for your reply. I followed your suggestion and I filed a bug report. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070059

Unfortunately, the "Restore previous session" is not always available to return to those "lost" pages.

Thank you again!