Colors are lost/changed after restarting FF

[ThomasMcA]

I'm using tab-highlighter 0.2.3 with tabkit 2e 0.12.0 in FF 35.0.1 in 32bit Win7 Pro SP1.
I have over 200 inactive tabs, with several tab groups that are already being colorized by tab-highlighter. Whenever I create a new colorized group, the colors are forgotten after FF restarts. Not only are they forgotten, but they are outright changed. For example, a group of 25 tabs that start as one color might become 3 groups after I restart FF. Even if I ungroup, then move a few tabs around, then regroup, the problem still happens after restarting FF.

[PikachuEXE]

This is due to how session store works in Firefox
If a tab is unloaded, setting attributes on it won't be remembered
So if you have some load tabs & unloaded tabs and you try to change the group (or ungroup),
the result for loaded tabs will be remembered, while those for unload tabs will be discarded (after restart)

I don't have a solution for this issue yet
Force loading all affected tabs is not good for performance.

Try to load all related tabs and change the group / ungroup those tabs to see if that solves your problem
I might need to add some note / warning for that situation

[ThomasMcA]

If force loading all affected tabs would fix the problem, but is bad for performance, then why not just warn the user about it? A slow solution is better than a broken app. Just display an explanatory popup, include a "don't remind me again" checkbox, and take all the time you need.

[PikachuEXE]

That works too, but I guess I would let user to do what needs to be done.

tabkit/tabkit2#83 opened