486149 - Weave 3.0 causes Firefox to crash if "sync on quit" is enabled

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Cloud Services :: General, defect)

Description

[Donald]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
Build Identifier: 3.0

If the "extensions.weave.syncOnQuit.enabled" option is set to true, Firefox will crash on quit.  If it is set to false, it closes cleanly.  I'm using this version of Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
on Arch Linux.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have the "extensions.weave.syncOnQuit.enabled" option set to true.
2. Try to close Firefox.
3. The browser crashes and displays the "send crash information to mozilla" box.
Actual Results:  
The browser crashes.

Expected Results:  
The browser syncs and quits cleanly.

Comment 1

[Dan Mills [:thunder]]

Sync on quit pref is not exposed anywhere, downgrading from critical.

Comment 2

[Kushal Hada]

I am not sure if this is related. Being very reluctant to start a new bug, I put my comment here. 

Using: Firefox 3.1b3 on Intel Mac 10.4.11 and Minefield 3.6a1pre on Windows XP 

Signs: 
Firefox crashes within minutes of opening even if there is no activity beyond opening the home page. Weave tries to sync and after a while, the browser crashes. 

Workaround: 
Immediately after opening Firefox, either disable Weave or go to Weave preferences and uncheck "Automatically connect each time I start Firefox". 

Solution: 
Not available as far as I know 

NOTE TO READERS: If I need to move it to its own bug, please let me know. (Or better still, if you experience it too, do it yourself!)

Comment 3

[Dan Mills [:thunder]]

We no longer do sync on quit, so closing.