"Element is open in another tab" mistakenly showing after app restart

[babolivier]

Steps to reproduce

1. Configure Element to automatically open on startup
2. Log in to your e.g. Gnome session
3. Close your session and quickly log back in (e.g. if a log out was required to update extensions)

Outcome

What did you expect?

Element starts loading

What happened instead?

A message appears telling me that Element is open in another tab, and that I need to close said tab (which doesn't exist) and click "Continue". Doing nothing except clicking "Continue" makes the message disappear and Element starts loading.

This is basically a repeat of element-hq/element-web#26165 / element-hq/element-web#26192, which was apparently linked to an issue with Firefox, except I've just had it happen with the desktop Electron-based app.

Operating system

Arch Linux

Application version

Element version: 1.11.57, Crypto version: Olm 3.2.15

How did you install the app?

Arch Linux packages

Homeserver

abolivier.bzh

Will you send logs?

Yes

[gmpreussner]

Maybe related: element-hq/element-web#28168

[richvdh]

duplicate of element-hq/element-web#28168