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Revision as of 23:53, 10 October 2011
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* The Reset Firefox process should run in safe mode to prevent crashes | * The Reset Firefox process should run in safe mode to prevent crashes | ||
* Another option is to add a button to restart in safe mode from about:sessionrestore when it had trouble restoring the session. | * Another option is to add a button to restart in safe mode from about:sessionrestore when it had trouble restoring the session. | ||
* Safe mode should always be used before reset since reset causes data loss which may be unnecessary if safe mode would have solved the problem. As a result, I think that a button to restart in safe mode is a higher priority for about:support than going directly to a reset. | |||
** The safe mode dialog could provide a method to reset the profile | |||
* We need to make the distinction between the reset process and making changes in safe mode permanent more clear as they appear to do the same thing in the UI. In reality, resetting involves more data loss since it's actually going to migrate only high priority data to a new profile. | |||
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|Feature engineering status=Researching implementation options | |||
|Feature security status=sec-review-needed | |Feature security status=sec-review-needed | ||
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