Ctrl+Q after upgrade fails to ask for confirmation, loses user session

[Marius Gedminas]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

1. Over a number of days collect a set of ~10 unread tabs with interesting pages open
2. Upgrade Firefox, since there's a security update, could be important
3. Hit Ctrl+Q

Expected behaviour:

As explicitly set in my preferences, Firefox should show a confirmation dialog saying "you have many tabs open", with an option "save session and quit" that I want to use.

Actual behaviour:

Firefox quits and when you start it again, it shows a blank page instead of my browsing session.

This is especially enraging because Firefox generally gives the impression that it cares about my session, and then fails to uphold the promise when it really matters.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Alex (ajb44-geo)]

I think I got this one too.

After the most recent upgrade (firefox-3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) the running firefox would not load a new url
or bookmark the tabs. I also got an interesting popup (attached, use xwud -in ff.wud to view)

More seriously, it would not restart until I removed the .parentlock file.

[Nathan Handler (nhandler)]

Could you please type 'about:config' in your address bar. Click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button. Now, search for 'browser.warnOnQuit' and ensure that it is set to true. If this does not solve your problem, could you please try to reproduce the bug using a fresh profile?

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:34:13AM -0000, Nathan Handler wrote:
> Could you please type 'about:config' in your address bar. Click the
> "I'll be careful, I promise!" button. Now, search for
> 'browser.warnOnQuit' and ensure that it is set to true.

It is.

> If this does not
> solve your problem, could you please try to reproduce the bug using a
> fresh profile?

That may be difficult, since it is only during apt-get upgrades of
firefox that this bug appears.

Marius Gedminas
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[Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer)]

I can reproduce this problem. Although it has nothing to do with upgrades.

Simply open a fresh firefox instance (firefox -no-remote -P), hit Ctrl+T a couple of times to have open tabs. Press Ctrl+Q, hit the "dont ask next time" checkbox, "Save and Quit".
Then open this profile again, see the Tabs coming up, hit Ctrl+Q again, see the browser closing itself w/o asking.

There is no chance to make firefox ask whether to really quit or not. That's annoying, especially when you have a large download going on. I'm talking about Firefox 3.0.14 here.

Related bugs seem to be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419009 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422040.

Funny enough, when browser.startup.page is set to "1", it'll show the question box. Totally confusing to me. I expected it to show the confirmation question even if browser.startup.page is set to 3.