Bug#734987: iceweasel: browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes is ineffective. iceweasel insists on resetting profile on start

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 24.2.0esr-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

due to lack of swap and another browser running iceweasel crashes during
session restore. Upon restarting it insists on resetting my session or
starting in safe mode. It does not offer the option to start my session.

This page
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes
suggests that setting browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes to a high
number shold prevent this behaviour. I set the value to 255 but it does
not help. I cannot start my session.

Upgrading from wheezy iceweasel to sid iceweasel does not help either.

-- Package-specific info:


-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (171, 'unstable'), (151, 'experimental'), (121, 'precise-updates'), (121, 'precise-security'), (121, 'precise'), (101, 'stable'), (101, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.3.2
ii  fontconfig          2.9.0-7.1
ii  libc6               2.17-97
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.38.2-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.22-1
ii  libnspr4            2:4.10.2-1
ii  libnspr4-0d         2:4.10.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0        3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-5
ii  procps              1:3.3.3-3
ii  xulrunner-24.0      24.2.0esr-1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.0-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1
pn  mozplugger             <none>

Versions of packages xulrunner-24.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.10.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-4
ii  libc6                     2.17-97
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.16-2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.100.2-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.8.2-12
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.38.2-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.22-1
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libmozjs24d               24.2.0esr-1
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.10.2-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.15.3.1-1.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-3
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libvpx1                   1.1.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages xulrunner-24.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0  0.28-6
ii  libgnomeui-0  2.24.5-2

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