291224 - Software update and installer clears cache

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[andypopely]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Like Netscape/7.2 but newer; Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Like Netscape/7.2 but newer; Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I've let the update process update Firefox to 1.0.2 and now to 1.0.3 on my
WinXP/SP2 system. After both updates when Firefox is restarted the first time
the Firefox cache is cleared. During both updates I let the update process go
ahead and close Firefox when it detected Firefox was open.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, if you don't shutdown Firefox cleanly (killing, crashing), you loose
the cache the next time you start up. I think this is waht happened here.

So I think this is normal here, unless you want to be sure that the install
script will shut down a running Firefox cleanly.

Comment 2

[andypopely]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reporter, if you don't shutdown Firefox cleanly (killing, crashing), you loose
> the cache the next time you start up. I think this is waht happened here.
> 
> So I think this is normal here, unless you want to be sure that the install
> script will shut down a running Firefox cleanly.

Firefox has to be active in order to receive the popup notifying the user that
there is an update available.  The update process asks the user if it can close
Firefox so I believe it should close Firefox cleanly or pause until the user
closes Firefox.  Either way the Firefox cache should not be cleared as it's an
important performance aspect of Firefox.

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

The firefox installer actually ends up terminating an existing firefox process
in some cases, and that can cause the disk cache to be left in an inconsistent
state.  As a result, the next time firefox loads the disk cache, it will
discover the inconsistency and discard the disk cache.  This is very much
related to the problem described in bug 105843.  This bug could almost be
considered a duplicate of that bug report, but actually I think it would be
nicer if the installer knew how to close firefox gracefully.

Comment 4

[Steve Chapel]

The same thing happens with the SeaMonkey installer. Is that part of this bug report, or should I open a new bug?

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

Steve: It's the same bug.

Comment 6

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Closing out bugs in the old style updater, which are superseded by the new system
in 1.5.