Bug#839646: josm: Using help - Report a bug in josm fails with firefox refuses to respond every other time

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 03/10/2016, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo
>
> Hi shirish,

Hi Sebastian,

> On 10/03/2016 03:17 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Whenever I try to report a bug using josm status report from within
>> josm I get this -
>>
>> "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
>> window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart
>> the system."
>>
>> Can this be fixed ?
>
> I cannot reproduce this issue with josm in unstable, so I cannot fix it
> either.
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/josmticket?pdata_stored=fd35077d851c42db0b701b4a
> is loaded in a new tab of the already running firefox-esr process just
> fine.
>
> Since bugreports for the JOSM package should be filed in the Debian BTS,
> removing the menu option may be an appropriate solution. Ideally it
> should use the BTS instead of josm.openstreetmap.de as it does for the
> exception handler too.

I didn't know that.

> How can I reproduce your issue?

I don't know.

> Is firefox already running, and is it the -esr variant or not?

Firefox is already running.

[$] apt-cache policy firefox

firefox:
  Installed: 49.0-4
  Candidate: 49.0-4
  Version table:
     50.0~b1-1 1
          1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 Packages
 *** 49.0-4 100
          1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


> Is firefox set as the default browser in the alternatives system and in
> your desktop environment?

I think so.

─[$] sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser

[sudo] password for shirish:
There are 4 choices for the alternative gnome-www-browser (providing
/usr/bin/gnome-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                       Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/epiphany-browser   85        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/chromium           40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/epiphany-browser   85        manual mode
* 3            /usr/bin/firefox            70        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/firefox-esr        70        manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:


> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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