"Restart Firefox" button in crash dialog does not restart Firefox but just exits instead

Bug #847708 reported by Stuart Langridge
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firefox (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When Firefox crashes, the crash dialog (allowing submission of a report upstream) has a "Restart Firefox" button. Clicking that button does not, as far as I can tell, restart Firefox; instead, the crash dialog closes, and I have to restart Firefox myself.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 6.0.2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 12 12:01:33 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 6.0.2+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
 flashplugin-installer N/A
 adobe-flashplugin 10.3.183.4-0natty1
 icedtea-plugin N/A
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-01-18 (236 days ago)

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Stuart Langridge (sil) wrote :
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Stuart Langridge (sil) wrote :

This is still an issue in 18.04 at least.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Expired → New
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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