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

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Nov 15 08:16:16 UTC 2009


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))

Thanks

Mike





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