1072630 - Restarting after a crash doesn't preserve the Safe Mode

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[Daniel "warmth" Delgado]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20140924030204

Steps to reproduce:

If Firefox Crashes with Electrolisys enabled while running in Safe Mode, the restart after reporting the crash won't preserve the Safe Mode status.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

E10s is disabled after restarting in safe mode. Did you open again a new e10s window while in safe mode?

Comment 2

[Daniel "warmth" Delgado]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly] from comment #1)
> E10s is disabled after restarting in safe mode. Did you open again a new
> e10s window while in safe mode?
I don't understand what do you mean.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

See also bug 664057 -- perhaps providing an option to "Restart in safe mode" in case when the crash happened in safe mode would be better than silently restarting in Safe mode.