1471880 - Browser Console lost 'restart' function

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1458840

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[davidesousa]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Build ID: 20180626114330

Steps to reproduce:

Ctrl+Shift+J and then typing restart


Actual results:

restart is not defined


Expected results:

the browser should restart

Comment 1

[davidesousa]

The restart function was available in the now defunct developer toolbar

Comment 2

[Gingerbread Man]

You can get a restart button and menu items at https://luke-baker.github.io

I don't think there's any built-in restart method left aside from entering about:profiles into the address bar and then clicking the "Restart normally…" button there. You could keep that tab pinned for easier access, but that's about it.

Related reports:
bug 414961
bug 1001747
bug 1344786
bug 1444916
bug 1449966

Comment 3

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

(The restart function was never present in Browser Console, but instead was only in the Developer Toolbox / GCLI.)

If you open Browser Console (Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-J), you can then press Cmd/Ctrl-Alt-R to restart the browser.  Does that seem sufficient?

Comment 4

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (use ni?) from comment #3)
> If you open Browser Console (Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-J), you can then press
> Cmd/Ctrl-Alt-R to restart the browser.  Does that seem sufficient?

Secret feature? I find no match for "restart" on either of the following pages:
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Browser_Console
https://support.mozilla.com/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly

Comment 5

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #4)
> (In reply to J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (use ni?) from comment #3)
> > If you open Browser Console (Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-J), you can then press
> > Cmd/Ctrl-Alt-R to restart the browser.  Does that seem sufficient?
> 
> Secret feature? I find no match for "restart" on either of the following
> pages:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Browser_Console
> https://support.mozilla.com/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-
> quickly

Well, it's not really secret on purpose...  It was just assumed that the main user of such a feature would be Firefox QA.

I'll discuss documentation for this in bug 1458840 where it was added.  I think we can mark this bug a duplicate of that for now.  If this bug turns out to be something else, we can reopen if needed.