Yes, Firefox works well. No, this seems to happen for about 50% of Firefox updates. In case of past occourences, one problem was that command line parameters (that had been given to the instances that had been stopped) were not passed to the restarted instance. But this bug is, afaik, fixed. And in my current setup, Firefox doesn't require any parameters to restart gracefully.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871009 Title: Firefox doesn't restart after update Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: After upgrading to firefox amd64 74.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (using apt-get), a message appeared in the running Firefox session: 'Firefox needs to be restarted' (as usual, nothing wrong with that). After clicking ok (or 'do it now' or what the exact message was), Firefox terminates. Expected behaviour: Firefox actually restarts Experienced behaviour: Nothing seemed to happen. Firefox terminated but never came back. (Starting Firefox again by hand worked flawlessly.) I have no profiles defined. I don't usually pass any options when starting Firefox. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: firefox 74.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-91.92-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64 AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: fab 3616 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: fab 3616 F.... pulseaudio BrokenPermissions: saved-telemetry-pings/a1103722-309c-47da-b9da-2bc9411237b9 (0o600, wrong owner) saved-telemetry-pings/e1cac187-9dd1-48b9-bb99-8c67374c7212 (0o600, wrong owner) saved-telemetry-pings/fbf7331c-39a9-4539-97fa-280e7d343563 (0o600, wrong owner) BuildID: 20200403064753 Channel: Unavailable CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Apr 6 03:13:58 2020 Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite) InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-27 (1805 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) IpRoute: default via 192.168.23.1 dev eth0 proto dhcp metric 100 10.0.3.0/24 dev lxcbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.3.1 linkdown 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.23.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.23.136 metric 100 Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing MostRecentCrashID: bp-f8832267-2764-4f52-b9df-136771180712 PrefErrors: Unexpected character ',' before close parenthesis @ /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja:greprefs.js:732 PrefSources: prefs.js Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=74.0.1/20200403064753 (In use) RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: firefox SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-f8832267-2764-4f52-b9df-136771180712 bp-f03b7d3e-1a66-441d-be5d-cedc11180201 bp-610fb53c-4664-4692-8e37-62c501180107 bp-708689c3-ba2d-427e-a43b-605df2141112 bp-b2e12bb9-63b8-494d-9390-f5d722140521 Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-18 (596 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/06/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: F1 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: 970A-UD3P dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrF1:bd08/06/2013:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rn970A-UD3P:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1871009/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
