KaiRo pointed out another reason to reduce shutdown hang rates on IRC: it's lousy UX. The crash-reporter dialog pops up a minute after the user closed Firefox
On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 4:37:41 PM UTC-4, RyanVM wrote: > On 7/6/2015 4:34 PM, Vladan D wrote: > > Background: Firefox shutdown hangs are turned into shutdown crashes by a > > watchdog thread [1] that forces a crash if shutdown hasn't completed within > > 1 minute. Thanks to the watchdog and the Windows profile unlocker [2], > > shutdown hangs aren't as frustrating as they used to be. However, shutdown > > hangs might still be causing data loss and they are indicative of > > potentially-serious bugs in the code. > > > > > > According to this graph of Firefox crash rate history, shutdown hangs > > (crashes) make up about one third of all browser crashes [3]: > > > > https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/crash-report-tools/longtermgraph/?fxrel > > > > I've been told shutdown hangs often don't get enough attention. > > Should fixing shutdown hangs be higher priority? > > And if so, should we allow features with shutdown hangs to be released? > > > > > > Notes: > > 1. Force Firefox crash if shutdown hangs > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038342 > > 2. win32 implementation of nsIProfileUnlocker > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286355 > > 3. The graph above shows that the overall crash rate jumped up by roughly a > > third when the watchdog code shipped in Firefox 36. Hover over the "36" box > > on the blue line > > > > Windows mochitest-bc shutdown hangs have been on of the top oranges in > our automation for months now. See bug 1121145. Would be great if we > could get more eyes on the problem. > > -Ryan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
