633203 - Automatically restart after Windows auto-installs system updates and reboots

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jason Orendorff [:jorendorff]]

This is kind of a recent Windows feature. Vista and later. Any program can register itself with Windows by calling RegisterApplicationRestart.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373347%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Then after an automatic reboot, when you log in, if you were running before, you get relaunched automatically.

You can give RegisterApplicationRestart whatever command line you want, in case you want to make sure you restart with the same command line as before, or perhaps with a special --recover option.

Windows also sends special events when it's going to shut down for restart and such. More general info here:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756917.aspx

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This has been fixed in recent versions of Firefox. We now restart Firefox if it was running when Windows was shut down.