452487 - Inform the user if Firefox is still running after UI shutdown

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 407981

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Volkmar Kostka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080826034105 Minefield/3.1a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080826034105 Minefield/3.1a2pre

There are lots of complaints lately due to the long shutdown times. I guess most people are irritated that the UI has already disappeared while the database is still shutting down. And restarting firefox during database shutdown can lead to data loss (session store overwritten).
A UI like "Firefox is shutting down. Please wait." may be a short term solution until the database is getting faster.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

i suppose this could be dupe of bug 407981, are you trying to add something dependant on the discussion in that bug?

Comment 2

[Volkmar Kostka]

It is related. If you think this RFE is better discussed in the other bug you can make it a duplicate.
I could not find something similar to this RFE.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv