379995 - All windows fail if one window fails

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[amitabuda]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-TW; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-TW; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11

If one window crashes, then all of the windows that I opened would crash, too.

I would have to re-open the other windows, which is a real hassle.(and i couldn't recall what I opened before)

Could you fix this problem?

Thanks!

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

You're using a very old version of Firefox.  Firefox 2 has session restore, which tries to restore all your windows and tabs if Firefox crashes.  But that's just crash *recovery*; limiting the effect of crashes would be bug 260107.

Comment 2

[amitabuda]

These two "bugs" are very different problems...

I'm not talking about multiple log-ins...
It's about making each Firefox window a stand-alone running process...
So that when one window crashes, the others won't crash with it.

{Session Restore} is not the ultimate resolution to this problem
because if I re-open all the previous windows,
then the window that caused the crash is still going to
crash the program again...

Could you please forward this issue to your program developing team?

Thank you!!

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Hmm.  You're right that bug 260107 covers to seemingly separate issues: wanting to have separate logins in different windows (or tabs!) (which could be accomplished without separate processes), and wanting crashes and hangs to only affect a single window (which means having separate processes).

Comment 4

[Brian Crowder]

You can accomplish this using MOZ_NO_REMOTE or -moz-no-remote, documented elsewhere.  Of course you'll pay lots more memory per window.  Other than that feature, I don't think this "bug" is going to be fixed.

Comment 5

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

Actually, there has been talk about adding to the crash restore UI so that it lets you choose which tabs to try and reopen. I *believe* the idea was to leave this sort of thing to extension developers, but some sort of fix from someone is definitely wanted.