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<span style="font-size: 15px;">For sure - as soon as you have a button for users to press that is essentially the "Work Properly" button, the question presents itself: why do we wait for them to press it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Matt Grimes and Tyler Downer have been thinking on this subject; I know they mentioned ideas for future "milder" versions of Firefox Reset that we could be running periodically automatically.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Madhava</span></div>
<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Madhava Enros</div><div>Firefox User Experience</div><div>mozilla.org/firefox</div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Monday, July 8, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Mike Connor wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>On 2013-07-08 3:04 PM, Alex Keybl wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I think we'd be better off calling this feature "Repair Firefox".</div></blockquote><div>The only issues I see here is that Repair Firefox implies a guaranteed solution, while a reset is just a tool that may help. Also, users may wonder why we don't always attempt a repair on launch every time, if there's no negative consequences.</div></div></blockquote><div>If we're going to do something like this we should really find a way of </div><div>a) doing this incrementally and in-process and b) based on detection of </div><div>problematic states. That would leave the manual "big reset button" to </div><div>cover the cases we can't automatically detect/fix. (And we should track </div><div>those resets, maybe in FHR, to get a handle on how much it's still </div><div>necessary.)</div><div><br></div><div>-- Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>firefox-dev mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:firefox-dev@mozilla.org">firefox-dev@mozilla.org</a></div><div><a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev">https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev</a></div></div></div></span>
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