Comment 18 for bug 875538

Right.
In fact the behaviour is not exactly the same as before.

Yesterday before ugrading to 3.6.24, I killed the firefox-bin process.
And I did not seen the problem. In fact, I just tested several time
opening and closing firefox and I did not noticed the issue.

But this morning at the first restart of my computer, I noticed the
problem again with 3.6.24.
Thus I killed the firefox-bin task like before.
And since, it works sometimes... depending on the _delay between opening
and closing firefox_.

I checked the ressources monitor during the tests.
It seems that during the _first 10 seconds after opening firefox_, it is
possible to close it without any issues.
I mean: It's possible to open and close again and again without seeing
the bad popup.

On the ressource monitor window, the value within "waiting channel"
column belonging to firefox-bin process is set to "0" during
approximately the first 10 seconds.
And as far as the value is 0, it works.

But after this delay, the value is set to "poll_schedule_timeout".
Then, if I close firefox, the firefox-bin process still remains, but
this time with waiting channel set to "futex_wait_queue_me".

And after that, it's not possible to open again firefox without killing
this process.

Maybe this behaviour was exactly the same with 3.6.23, but I did not
noticed it.
Perhaps some persons still with version 3.6.23 could confim.

However, it seems the issue is linked to a dynamic behaviour of a
timeout, and maybe the waiting channel is a track.

Le 11/11/2011 19:21, Igor Malner a écrit :
> updated to 3.6.24, still nothing!
>