Comment 10 for bug 270303

I, too, have been experiencing this bug since upgrading to Intrepid last weekend.

It seems the "restart" flag is stored in the firefox home directory. (Due to issues I had with an older version of firefox 3 (haven't had time to test this in intrepid), it kept hitting the hard disk after each page so I keep a copy in /dev/shm/ once at each boot).

I understand that deleting my entire home directory and starting from scratch would likely work, but I don't like to go through the hassle of migrating bookmarks, cookies, saved passwords, etc.

In my opinion the bug here is that the "restart" flag should not be getting saved in my firefox home directory, rather it should depend on whether you upgraded while firefox was open.

I don't want to sound like I am trolling by suggesting this, but I personally think this banner will lead to a few really slightly irritated users for a few additional reasons:

(1) Restarting firefox does *not* save your session. it does not pop up with "restore your session" and selecting Last Session from the session manager menu chooses an older session.
A temporary workaround for the intrepid release would be to have the Restart button run "killall -9 firefox" as that does save my session and therefore is much preferable.

(2) The popup appears after a seemingly random number of seconds. This causes everything on the page to shift around. My understanding is that the intent is to be annoying but making the browser unusable by waiting almost exactly the amount of time it takes me to click on a search result is pretty annoying IMO.

I don't know what would cause this to happen but my suggestion is to fix this below the bottom-most toolbar so it doesn't keep opening, closing, and moving around

(3) The popup has a close button even though it will reopen after you close it (and remain open in other tabs) This is likely to lead to user frustration.

As you can see I am personally not very happy about this change. I can understand you had reasons for adding this annoying nag banner (I remember personally experiencing blank windows in FF 2.0 due to an upgrade), but it was at least usable until I finish reading whatever tabs I have open).

But if you fix any one of these issues, or the root cause of being stored on a per-user basis (as Roger says), I would consider this problem solved.