85437 - restart mozilla -turbo immediately after a crash

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, enhancement)

Description

[Christophe Warland]

Crashes take forever to recover from on Windows, so why not add an extra couple
of seconds to reset the -turbo mode if Mozilla was originally started with it? Thx.

Comment 1

[Greg Breland]

Crashes take a long time on Win2K because of Doctor Watson.

However, I think what this bug is requesting is that if Mozilla IPC server
crashes then the next time mozilla is run restart the IPC server and display the
browser.  This would require the turbo option to be a preference (which it will
be soon I am sure) and some additional logic in the moz startup to check this
pref and make sure the IPC server is still running.

Comment 2

[timeless]

good idea. this is actually possible, although i'm not sure everyone will go 
for it. We probably should do like talkback and count crashes/interval. if we 
crash >2 times in <a few minutes we should throw an alert suggesting that the 
user upgrade and admitting that respawning -turbo is probably a bad idea.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 89511, restart -turbo when restarting mozilla after a crash.

Comment 4

[Cathleen]

*** Bug 89511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

My bug (re-enter -turbo mode when restarting Mozilla after a crash) was marked
as a duplicate of this bug, but I disagree with the approach this bug is taking.
 Restarting it immediately after a crash is dangerous, because it may lead to an
infinite crash loop (something that happens to me occasionally with IE, by the
way), and because the user is likely to be trying to relaunch the browser
manually at the same time.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

--> me

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

Fixed by the patch in bug 89504.

Comment 8

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage: marking as dupe. QA - please verify both bugs when 89504 is fixed. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89504 ***

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Please leave these open, they need to be verified separately anyways.

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

Fixed.

Comment 11

[Grace Bush]

verified fixed on mozilla build 2001081703

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

This has regressed: bug 103786.