Open Bug 1233757 Opened 9 years ago Updated 3 months ago

Make shutdownhang crashes less annoying

Categories

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Crash Reporting
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: kairo, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

In a meeting we just had on crash reporting, we all agreed that prompting the user for sending a crash report 60s after Firefox shutdown was really annoying and we should fix that. I thought we should just auto-submit those crashes, but privacy-wise we probably can only auto-submit on an opt-in basis, which wouldn't help the average user out of the annoyance. That said, there's uncertainty of how useful the shutdownhang crash reports are at all and if we should get rid of sending crash reports for them completely (and just accept that we won't fix the potentially dataloss-relevant issues there). In any case, we need to figure out how to reduce this annoyance.
Prompt for auto-submit opt-in on restart, perhaps.
See Also: → 1405290
See Also: → 1437575
Depends on: 1143958
Severity: normal → S3

Is this still an issue?

Flags: needinfo?(gsvelto)

We still pop up the crash reporter client for shutdown crashes, but not all of them. For example we got rid of a bunch of uninteresting ones with bug 1868772.

Flags: needinfo?(gsvelto)
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