Bug#556246: iceweasel: "Restart Iceweasel to complete your changes" doesn't always quit Firefox

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:16:16AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:19:42PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.5.5-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > After installing an extension, when I click on "Restart Iceweasel" from
> > the Add-ons box, the following sometimes happens: the Iceweasel window
> > disappears, but nothing else happens, and a "ps" shows that firefox-bin
> > is still running (this is the old instance, not a new instance).
> > 
> > In such a case, if I start Iceweasel again, I still get the request
> > "Restart Iceweasel to complete your changes" (this is normal, because
> > the running instance is reused). So, I need to kill firefox-bin from
> > a terminal, then everything is OK.
> > 
> > The latest problem occurred after I installed SearchStatus 1.31.
> > 
> > Note that I've never had such a problem with Firefox under Mac OS X.
> 
> Can you try to reproduce and then run xwininfo -root -tree, and send its
> output here ?
> 
> Also send the content of sessionstore.js from your profile directory
> (please not it may contain some private data, so you might want to
> encrypt it with my GPG key (fingerprint in the mail header))

Or, maybe you are just a victim of #539175 and similar bugs. Are you
running under KDE with the gtk-qt-engine ?

Mike