User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030819 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030819 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+ It would be nice if there was some easy way to restart the browser after installing an extension. Especially if it was just a button in the toolbar. If it would retain the current tabset it would be simply amazing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install any extension 2. 3. Actual Results: i had to bookmark my tabs, close the browser, open the browser, open the bookmarks for the tabs, delete the bookmarks for the tabs Expected Results: have a button that does all that in one click Is there an easy way that I could just write an exension (yes, I see the irony) that would do this?

I suppose the idea is that you don't install things on the fly quite like this. Maybe some people do? Writing an extension to do this would probably be harder than writing a patch for Firebird, since you'd need to modify how the home page function would work (or do some copying in/out of values during the unload/load process) Of course, this wouldn't address partially filled in forms, etc, since persisting that data just isn't worth it. If what you're doing can't be interrupted, unless you desperately need that extension for what you're doing, wait until you're finished. Still, its a valid RFE, adding helpwanted in case people are looking for stuff to hack on.

*** Bug 247037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 252737 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This might be a usability win for extensions. If we don't already have sufficient strings for this, we'd want to get them in before the l10n freeze

We should probably save the state of the browser and reopen all the same tabs which are open.

Unfortunately this is a bit of a challenge. Later.

This is the solution I ended up going with. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=29529 It seems to work well enough for me, but I could understand someone's confusion after filling out a long form and having those values not persist.

I'd like to suggest that, after searching for updates to extensions (in both Firefox, Mozilla, and Thunderbird) and the upgrade requires a restart, the user be prompted to restart the application, which will then close and then re-load the application. I don't consider it that important that the application re-start in the same state that it was when it was shut down to upgrade the extension but it would be nice either to be prompted to restart or have a button (or menu item) to restart the browser. A button/menu item to restart would also come in handy when plug-ins crash (as Adobe Acrobat tends to do from time to time) -- it doesn't bring down the browser but suggests that the browser be restarted.

*** Bug 220026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The new Update mechanism (Help / Check for Updates...) in the recent Deer Park builds has a button marked "Restart Deer Park Now". It appears to match the request of the original bugposter, with the exception of saving the current tabset. Would it be possible to use the same code to patch this bug?

Might get fixed anyway, but saving state information is tricky.

(In reply to comment #11) > Might get fixed anyway, but saving state information is tricky. Should the "saving state information" part of this bug be duped to Bug 159357 (Add "Last tabs visited" to Navigator startup preferences / save tab session when closing, quitting), leaving only the EM restart button for this bug?

I agree to comment 8 that FF should ask whether it should restart now or manually later just like windows asks the user. But i think this will have to wait until session saving is implemented.

There's now an extension that does this, Restart Firefox (only works with 1.5): http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=319438 SessionSaver can be used to save and reload tabs after the restart.

The part about saving the tabs during an exit/restart can be done via the SessionSaver extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=436). It will not only save your tabs, but will also save your inputs in form fields and textareas. Combine this with the previously mentioned RestartFirefox extension and you've got your functionality.

This is being added in bug 329045

Fixed by the checkin of bug 329045. The metabug for Session Restore is Bug 328154 and that will be added for the EM after Session Restore lands