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Former Employee

Oct 15, 2020

Dev channel update to 87.0.664.8 is live

Hello Insiders! Today we’re releasing build 87.0.664.8 to the Dev channel. This is the last build for major version 87, so except for maybe a small patch or two, this is the build that will soon be...

josh_bodner

Former Employee

Oct 17, 2020

MikeDiack In this case, the bug is actually fixed! It's the way we fixed it that caused the same thing to happen. Basically, we were trying to merge some code in from Chromium, and that changed the storage for the current session, which was the first time peoples' tabs were lost. Unfortunately, we couldn't leave the code as it was, and the safest way to fix it was to just undo those changes, which in the process changed the storage again, which was the second time peoples' tabs were lost.

In the meantime, we've also identified an issue where peoples' sessions weren't written to storage for history, which is what's affecting the people who can't restore their windows from history because they aren't there.

Colm O Brogain

Copper Contributor

Oct 19, 2020

Don't ever, ever, let that happen again. It's inexcusable to KNOW you are going to blow away people's session and just do it anyway. Save open tabs to bookmarks in a folder, do SOMETHING.

HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 19, 2020
Colm O Brogain
Colm O Brogain wrote:
Don't ever, ever, let that happen again. It's inexcusable to KNOW you are going to blow away people's session and just do it anyway. Save open tabs to bookmarks in a folder, do SOMETHING.
You do understand this is the DEV channel, right?
you can find the terms of use but I can tell you that all of these are Normal in beta and in-development software.
so whoever uses these software SHOULD expect data loss and things like that.

I use Windows insider and I know what I'm doing and how to protect my data and not let bugs affect me, but if you don't, there is always the Stable build.