1017362 - Logging out Gnome leads to "Well this is embarrassing" page

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Jon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140514131124

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 29.0.1

Linux localhost.localdomain 3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 13:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Using Gnome 3.10 on Fedora 20.

1. Open several tabs in Firefox
2. In the top right Gnome 3 menu choose "Log Out"
3. Log in to Gnome 3
4. Start Firefox


Actual results:

At this point I am presented with the "Well this is embarrassing..." page listing my tabs.


Expected results:

As Gnome 3 should shut down applications cleanly, my tabs should have been restored as normal without the "Well this is embarrassing..." page.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Jon from comment #0)
> As Gnome 3 should shut down applications cleanly, my tabs should have been
> restored as normal without the "Well this is embarrassing..." page.

Have you verified that this is actually the case (ie, does Gnome 3 actually shut Firefox down cleanly, and can you define "cleanly" more precisely? Some would say that sending a SIGKILL is making a clean job of it, but... ;-) )

Comment 2

[Jon]

> ie, does Gnome 3 actually shut Firefox down cleanly

Good point. I am not sure if this is a bug with Firefox or Gnome. I have filed a bug with Gnome in case this is an issue with the log out behavior. <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730941>

Comment 3

[Liviu Cirdei]

Hi Jon, 

Is this issue still reproducing on your side?
I tried to reproduce with Firefox 43 / Nightly 46 and Gnome 3 and seems to work fine. My tabs are restored.
Could you, please, re-test on latest Firefox versions (Firefox 43 / Nightly 46)?

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Liviu Cirdei from comment #3)
> Hi Jon, 
> 
> Is this issue still reproducing on your side?
> I tried to reproduce with Firefox 43 / Nightly 46 and Gnome 3 and seems to
> work fine. My tabs are restored.
> Could you, please, re-test on latest Firefox versions (Firefox 43 / Nightly
> 46)?

Even if you do this repeatedly? The "This is embarrassing" screen will only show up after repeated crashing.

Comment 5

[Liviu Cirdei]

When doing this repeatedly I get the "This is embarrassing" screen, on both Firefox 43 and Nightly 46. So, this is still an issue.

Comment 6

[Jon]

> Hi Jon, 
>
> Is this issue still reproducing on your side?

Yes, it is still reproducible. As mentioned above, it requires logging out repeatedly. For me logging out twice triggers the behavior.

Comment 7

[Liviu Cirdei]

Thank you. Moving this to Firefox - Session Restore, so people with more experience on this matter to be involved.

Comment 8

[Laurent Bigonville]

This is still happening today with GNOME 3.22 and Firefox 53

It seems that Firefox is compiled with X session management support as it is sometimes (I don't think it's working properly all the time) able to block the reboot/shutdown/logout when a website are asking for it (gnome-shell will display a message telling that).

With both SIGINT and SIGTERM, Firefox is showing the "Well this is embarrassing..." page on next start. IMHO Firefox should use X SM (or the related Wayland function) to detect that it should exit and not wait for the signal. This way it can distinguish between a user controlled logoff or a signal due to something else.