Stashed tabs with file scheme cannot be restored about tab-stash HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi, thanks for your report! I looked into this, and unfortunately it's due to browser security restrictions. AFAICT Firefox won't allow extensions to open tabs which point to arbitrary file:/// URIs because of the potential for abuse (one could, for example, open any arbitrary local file, take a screenshot of the tab showing the file, etc.). So unfortunately there's nothing I can do to make file:/// URIs work.

That said, Tab Stash should have excluded them as "system" tabs (so they don't show up in the stash list at all and they are ignored when stashing). I will look into fixing this for the next release, so it's at least obvious that this won't work. Then it will hopefully be less confusing.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. :/

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Thanks for the quick response. I actually suspected something like this because of potential security risks. However, it would be great to have these tabs excluded. 👍

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This is now fixed as of Tab Stash 2.4, just released. We will now correctly treat file:... URLs as though they were system tabs, and won't allow them to be stashed. Thanks again for the report!

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