312086 - The browser needs to be manually restarted after installing/removing extensions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311744

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Alex Tanner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

After installing/removing extensions, all instances of the browser need to be
closed down manually then a new instance needs to be opened manually to complete
the process. Surely there should be a way of restarting the browser in this
situation which does not mean that the internet surfer has all their open web
pages closed down just to install an extension (File-> Restart Browser, a
"restart browser" toolbar button, or a special "restart browser" button on the
Extensions dialog)?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install an extension (XPI file) from an extension provider.
2. Manually restart the browser as requested in Extensions dialog (all open
websites are lost).

Actual Results:  
I had to attempt to remember which websites I had open when I was using the
browser before I installed an extension.

Expected Results:  
With a "Restart Browser" feature as above, a function could be implemented that
allows automatic restarting of the browser, saving open websites, browser window
positions, etc. in a temporary file, then restoring browser windows as they were
before installation of an extension.

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

bug 256509 is a different / better solution to essentially the same request.

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This solution seems like it would be good extension material. At least for me it
is wontfix since it addresses only the EM, has dependencies outside of the EM
that have not been implemented, and bug 256509 provides a better solution for
the EM.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311744 ***