367290 - an idea for what to do when a profile is locked

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Every so often, if my browser crashes, or computer crashes, when I start firefox back up it comes up without my bookmarks.  This is because the profile has been locked, and firefox creates a new profile.  I suggest that instead of simply creating a new profile, firefox instead imports the locked profile into the new profile, allowing the user to continue on as normal with all their settings and bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jonathan]

I think I already pressed commit, but I walked away and came back to my computer and this screen was here, so I'm committing just in case I forgot to and thought I did.  Sorry if this is a duplicate.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Do you really see multiple profiles in the profile manager? Normally you should see this message: "Firefox is already running, but not responding.. etc.".
See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
also: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

Comment 3

[Martin Mokrejs]

I think I saw something similar with TRUNK. My seamonkey-1.1.6 died, but I haven't realized the process was still running. I was just about to test current suite build from TRUNK and the seamonkey shelscript spit out a message that no running windows were found and raised up the profile manager. It refused me to select the only, default profile. After a while I figured out a seamonkey process was still running, and after killing it and maybe removing a stale lock file I could continue using seamonkey. It would have been helpful if I were warned that maybe this was due to a lockfile and maybe a running, "hidden" process. I guess you could even run "ps -ef | grep $username" from seamonkey sheel wrapper and take proper action.