Open Bug 892885 Opened 12 years ago Updated 2 years ago

No Safe Mode dialog after several startup failures

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Startup and Profile System
Version:
25 Branch
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: scoobidiver, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression, regressionwindow-wanted)

STR: 1. Create a new profile 2. Open Firefox 3. Kill Firefox within 10 seconds 4. Repeat steps 2 to 3 several times => No Safe Mode dialog Expect results: Safe Mode dialog after two startup failures. In Release, Beta and Aurora, the Restore Session window appears instead of the Safe Mode dialog so there are two regressions there.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130801 Firefox/25.0 Could not reproduce on latest Nightly. I started firefox from command line and closed the process immediately (CTRL+C) and after a few tries (~5-10) the Safe Mode dialog appeared.
I confirm that I get the Restore Session window in Aurora after two kills and nothing in Nightly even after several consecutive kills.
Indeed, if I get successive startup crashes, the dialog doesn't appear. But it does appear for me while following the steps from bug description. I cannot use my testcase to find the regression range because it doesn't crash older versions of firefox, and I cannot reproduce with the provided STR. Scoobidiver, can you please work on finding a regression range?
Flags: needinfo?(scoobidiver)
(In reply to Mihaela Velimiroviciu [QA] (:mihaelav) from comment #3) > Scoobidiver, can you please work on finding a regression range? mozregression doesn't work when Firefox need to be killed several times.
Flags: needinfo?(scoobidiver)
(In reply to Scoobidiver from comment #4) > (In reply to Mihaela Velimiroviciu [QA] (:mihaelav) from comment #3) > > Scoobidiver, can you please work on finding a regression range? > mozregression doesn't work when Firefox need to be killed several times. Yes, I know...you need to do it manually: download builds, install and try to reproduce.
This issue has turned up a few times from what I can see, so it would be interesting to know if people are still able to consistently reproduce.
(In reply to Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM] from comment #8) > This issue has turned up a few times from what I can see, so it would be > interesting to know if people are still able to consistently reproduce. I can still reproduce this with the latest build of nightly on a clean profile. 51.0a1 (2016-09-14)
I just tested the STR and I got the dialog after 3 or 4 crashes (wasn't keeping track). One thing to keep in mind is that MAX_STARTUP_BUFFER is 10 seconds [1] so if you are crashing and restarting too quickly we won't trigger startup crash detection. Perhaps this is too long since users may experience a crash and restart in less than 10 seconds. [1] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=MAX_STARTUP_BUFFER
If this MAX_STARTUP_BUFFER doesn't come into effect before 10 seconds and people are experiencing crashes before that time won't get the dialog, this surely needs to be reduced/changed so that it is shown so users can start in safe mode. Is there any downsides of having it shown after 3/4 crashes withing 10 seconds anyway?
Severity: normal → S3
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