Firefox is slow to stop when shutting down

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Hello! This is about Firefox on the latest Ubuntu Gutsy.

I've noticed that very often, after I tell the computer to shut down or reboot while Firefox is running, the next time I open Firefox (after restarting the computer) I get a warning that Firefox crashed the last time it was run, asking if I want to re-load the last session or not.

I'm sure this isn't caused by Firefox's session manager, as it doesn't happen when I just stop Firefox by hand.

I suspect that Firefox takes a while to shut itself down, and the gnome session (or whatever it is that handles shut-downs, I could never figure that out) just kills it. What do you think?

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Firefox does not tell you that firefox has crashed: when you shutdown your computer without closing firefox, the next time you open firefox it ask you if you want to restore the previous session. It was a new feature of Firefox 2.
Read carefully the message that Firefox shows you, if I am right I will close the bug. In the other case, take a screenshot and post it here.

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

No, it really says it crashed. I have setup Firefox's session manager to automatically load the last session, and if I close FF manually and restart it it works correctly.

Only when I shutdown the computer with FF running (thus letting the computer close FF) I get the error on the next start.

[TheTrevor (trevorhenry)]

Thanks for that information, but I suspect that I am not the Trevor Henry
you seek...The only bug I reported was about Firefox claiming to have
shutdown incorrectly, and I'm not a direct contributor, much though I'd like
to.
Chirz !
Trevor Henry.

On 31/10/2007, Alexander Sack <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 73536 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73536
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 73536
> MASTER Firefox crashes on instant X server shutdown
>
> --
> Firefox is slow to stop when shutting down
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158352
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (via bug 73536).
>