Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Slackware Packages OS: Linux Shutting down KDE while having Firefox 2.0 open and then logging back in KDE, which normally loads the previous session, results in Firefox 2.0 complaining that the session wasn't shutdown correctly and asks what to do. This is always reproducable. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Firefox and leave it open 2. close your KDE-session or shutdown / restart your computer with the KDE-dialog 3. restore your KDE-Session Actual Results: Firefox is started but notices that it wasn't shut down properly. The rest of the session starts without any problems or notices. It's noted as a bug in mozilla's bugzilla, right here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354686 That bugzilla's comment #4 suggests the KDE developers are to be notified, so this is it.
Confirming bug, using KDE 3.5.5 on Gentoo Linux.
Sorry, it is still not our job to fix Mozilla's long-lasting inability to fix their session management.
As a workaround you can explicitly exclude Firefox from session management in the kcontrol module. There's nothing else KDE can do here.
Well, Mozillas says this is a KDE-problem and you say it's a Mozilla-problem. What can be done to find a solution for this problem?
Mozilla doesn't support the XSMP protocol, only the primitive and old WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol. Which means that during session save it gets a message to save yourself and then it simply gets killed during X shutdown. The only thing KDE could do would be removing hacks working around Mozilla bugs in their session handling and disabling session support for it altogether.
For cross reference, just in case people are stopping by, there seems to be a 2002 and a 2006 bug on this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354686 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93789 From those bugs, it would seem that this is, indeed, a firefox bug.