On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Over time, I have encountered a number of (what I assume are) Firefox bugs > that: > > - Reproduce in my default profile, even in Safe Mode > - Do not reproduce in a clean profile > > Since they do not reproduce in a clean profile, I have not been able > to turn these into actionable bug reports. > > Since they do reproduce in Safe Mode, I assume they are not addon-related. > First things first, until recently our handling of safe mode in the content process was busted for a long time (bug 1326245) so be careful how much that might have shaped your impression. > Does anyone have suggestions for how to try to turn bugs like these > into actionable bug reports? When my regular profile is in Safe Mode, > what differences remain between it and a clean profile, that could > explain differences in behaviour? In my experience 99% of such bugs are caused by prefs and I have found bisecting my user_prefs.js file a very effective way of finding the culprit. The sucky part of this solution is that bisecting the user_prefs.js file is a manual process and we overwrite the file at shutdown so you need to be careful with that and keep a backup of the file around, etc. HTH, Ehsan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
