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It seems to me that most of these crashes are coming from background tasks, namely either `defaultagent` or `backgroundupdate` (look out for the `BackgroundTaskName` annotation. I think we should somehow collect those separately.

This bug as such is probably not really helpful but more a reminder that we should find better ways of associating those crashes with more specific bugs. Things that could help to cluster them that are in our crash reports might be:

- `BackgroundTaskName` if present
- The shutdown phase from `MOZ_CRASH_REASON`
- The rest of the signature as is

From my previous peeking into background task shutdown I would assume/hope that there is no "good" reason for those to hang (we usually just execute a simple Javascript payload that might or might not be expensive and then just exit) and that putting some more attention on them could lead to a common root cause, like a race between the OS asking us to shutdown and the payload still executing or such.
It seems to me that most of these crashes are coming from background tasks, namely either `defaultagent` or `backgroundupdate` (look out for the `BackgroundTaskName` annotation). I think we should somehow collect those separately.

This bug as such is probably not really helpful but more a reminder that we should find better ways of associating those crashes with more specific bugs. Things that could help to cluster them that are in our crash reports might be:

- `BackgroundTaskName` if present
- The shutdown phase from `MOZ_CRASH_REASON`
- The rest of the signature as is

From my previous peeking into background task shutdown I would assume/hope that there is no "good" reason for those to hang (we usually just execute a simple Javascript payload that might or might not be expensive and then just exit) and that putting some more attention on them could lead to a common root cause, like a race between the OS asking us to shutdown and the payload still executing or such.

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