531152 - FastStartup component shouldn't start up when launched with -silent

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

See bug 530676. The installer was launching fennec.exe -silent and expecting the process to terminate, but FastStartup kicked in so the process never exited. I don't think it's expected that -hidden runs will have faststart, and if that's desired you can already use faststart-hidden, so I think -hidden should imply no faststart.

Since FastStartup is registered to run first ("00-faststartup" vs. "y-default"), I think it can just avoid doing faststartup if findFlag("silent") != -1.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

If we do this, we'll need to change the wince installer to use -faststart-hidden to maintain it's current behavior of launching with faststart. Bug 529678 may also make this an option.

Comment 2

[Brian Crowder]

I think it should simply not enable itself at all, unless -faststart-hidden is provided.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Hmm, good point. I was kind of assuming that we wanted it to start for "normal" invocations, but maybe limiting it to only starting from installer-created shortcuts would be a good thing?

Comment 4

[Brian Crowder]

Right, that was my original intent actually.  I changed it for a couple of reasons I'm now struggling to remember, and I think we should go back.

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Faststart was removed in bug 652445, since it only ever worked properly with WinCE, for which support has now been removed.

-> WONTFIX (until/if such point where functional faststart support on relevant platforms is added back in; although likely no longer going to happen, given bug bug 627591 [windows] and bug 632404 [linux])