938573 - Apps are unexpectedly closed on device

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect)

Description

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0

Reproducible on latest Beta (20131111154639), latest Aurora (20131114004000), latest Nightly (20131113030205).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start App Manager and connect the device 
2. On the Installed Apps tab, start several apps by using the START button
3. Verify that they are opened on the device

Actual Results:
Some of the apps are unexpectedly closed (on device and app manager). 
If the steps are repeated and the same apps are started again some other apps are closed.

Expected Results:
The started apps remain open.

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

B2G kills apps if there are too many (to save memory).

Comment 2

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

(In reply to Paul Rouget [:paul] from comment #1)
> B2G kills apps if there are too many (to save memory).

Do we get app close notifications when that happens?  As in, does the Installed Apps list correctly reflect that they are now closed?

Comment 3

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

(In reply to J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] from comment #2)
> (In reply to Paul Rouget [:paul] from comment #1)
> > B2G kills apps if there are too many (to save memory).
> 
> Do we get app close notifications when that happens?  As in, does the
> Installed Apps list correctly reflect that they are now closed?

Yes. As Petruta mentioned:

> Some of the apps are unexpectedly closed (on device and app manager).