Closed
Bug 881199
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
Opening Firefox after a crash makes it too easy to reset your profile
Categories
(Firefox :: General, enhancement)
Firefox
General
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: j, Unassigned)
References
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803
Steps to reproduce:
After bringing Firefox back from a crash, a dialog opens up, inviting you to either "Open in Safe Mode" or "Reset Firefox".
Neither of these are particularly appealing options, but having read the first option, it is too easy to misread "Reset Firefox" as "Restart Firefox".
Actual results:
Clicking the "Reset Firefox" option overwrites your profile, moving it to the Desktop.
This means lots of googling to figure out what happened (you thought you'd simply asked Firefox to Restart!), then manually relocating your profile.
Expected results:
The right hand option should not be "Reset Firefox". Instead, it should either:
* Restart Firefox (maybe)
* Or ask "Are you sure you want to delete your profile?" (or similar) before actually doing so.
Comment 1•12 years ago
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This dialog only shows up after a startup crash.
The Restart Firefox button would mean "Would you want to crash again at startup?".
Are you asking for a confirmation when clicking Reset Firefox?
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Session Restore
Flags: needinfo?(j)
OS: Windows 7 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Version: 21 Branch → Trunk
> Are you asking for a confirmation when clicking Reset Firefox?
Yes, I think this would be an appropriate behaviour, given that accidentally Resetting Firefox takes quite some time (and manual copying and pasting) to revert.
Flags: needinfo?(j)
Comment 3•12 years ago
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(In reply to j from comment #2)
> > Are you asking for a confirmation when clicking Reset Firefox?
> Yes, I think this would be an appropriate behaviour
The warning is already on the current window. See https://bug732303.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=609959
Blocks: 732303
Updated•12 years ago
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Component: Session Restore → General
Updated•11 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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