restarting firefox

[Alexander Sack]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:52:13PM -0600, David Farning wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 08:46 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:37:01PM -0600, David Farning wrote:
> > > A number of browser related bug seem to caused by not restarting the
> > > browser after updating some packages in the system.  These packages seem
> > > to be firefox itself, some themes, and some fonts.
> > > 
> > > Until the mozillateam gets these issues sorted out, would it be feasible
> > > to have update manager request that firefox be restart if any themes or
> > > fonts are updated.
> > 
> > This is already done for Firefox itself.  Can you point to some of the
> > apparent issues with themes and fonts?  I've never known those to cause a
> > problem.
> 
> Matt,
> Sorry for the delay in responding to your request.
> 
> There is a family of bugs that are showing up in firefox that can be
> found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/74576 
> 
> We need to do more work in tracking this down... But they sometimes
> occur when closing firefox after updating and/or changing the theme|
> fonts.  I currently believe that it is a gtk issues.
> 

Actually, the main bug for lots of our crashes and freezes when
switching gnome theme can be found at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/67886.

There is a patch in the upstream bug for that; I am currently
investigating, why it has not yet been landed on the branches.

For bug 74576 I am currently still unsure whether this is just another
variant of that bug, or something new. That's why I haven't linked it
as duplicate of the bug above so far.

 - Alexander