395234 - prompted if I really want to restart after I click restart from the software update dialog

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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prompted if I really want to restart after I click restart from the software update dialog

but upon getting a software update and then hitting restart I get a prompt and I can cancel the restart.

perhaps this is by design, or maybe it's a regression of bug #385853?

I'll attach a screen shot.

Comment 1

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Attachment: screen shot

Comment 3

[David Grohmann]

perhaps this could be fixed by having an explicit "yes close the window but save my tabs for the next time i open firefox" type button along with close and dont close/cancel. 

I've never had a problem with session saver, in fact sometimes when firefox eats too much memory or I just want to close firefox I purposely end it from the task manager so all my tabs and windows come back up when I later restart firefox.

But if an explicit call to restart has accured, and session saver is working, then the browser should just restart, and bring back everything when it finishes installing the new extension.

It currently does this but warns you as if you wont get to keep your tabs.

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

I think we can ignore this message in the restart dialog, and instead clean up the message in that dialog.

Either way, we're not going to run into this as much, so it stays not-blocking, IMO.

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

See also bug 401172 where shutdown flow is discussed.

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This has been made redundant by recent design changes, as far as I can tell. When we restart for an update we always restore tabs, and no longer show a warning.