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firefox package

  1. Bug #1833798
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1833798

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In , Wlevine (wlevine) wrote :

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20160522030240

Steps to reproduce:

Start two Firefox processes using different profiles:

./firefox -P profile1 --new-instance &
./firefox -P profile2 --new-instance &

At some point, Firefox downloads an updated version and wants you to restart to update. First you restart the first process, then you click the "restart to update" button in the second process.

Actual results:

The second firefox process does not restart and has to be re-run manually. Firefox exits with an error and the next time you open it, the tab restore "This is embarrassing" page comes up. This is the error when firefox shuts down:

(process:29823): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_path_get_basename: assertion 'file_name != NULL' failed
sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory
sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory

[1]- Exit 1 ./firefox -P will_browsing_new --new-instance

Expected results:

The second Firefox process restarts normally.