I don't particularly need/want a "restart" button, but *if* one is going to be implemented, may I suggest it be placed under the "Help" menu? Right now, there is an option there entitled "Restart with Add-Ons Disabled". So, from a UI perspective, I would say the place to add "Restart Normally" would be right above that in the "Help" menu, if it's added. Thus both restarts would be in the same sub-menu, with the regular restart listed first and variant (add-ons disabled) listed second.
Just trying to help with what I see as the most logical UI layout to use if the option is implemented. I couldn't tell what was being proposed on that front in the first post because it's using that thing that replaced the normal menus (Part of why I left Firefox- I hate that thing. File/Edit/View/History/Bookmarks/Tools/Help for life.
), so I figured I'd weigh in. I'm being a little pedantic here, but I just figured if it's going to be done...
I don't personally understand why we need it, but if we're doing it, that's my implementation suggestion.
Off-topic:
Speaking of Firefox dropping the File menus and such, it was obvious as can be when they dropped it and offered reverted the change as a user option to placate the masses, that the option was going to disappear completely when the masses using it dropped a bit in size, and totally transparent that the implication that it'd be there forever was a lie. One day a couple years ago, I had to reinstall Windows or Firefox, or had a new PC or something, and realized it would have taken me like 7 hours of Internet searching and stuff to find all the little stuff that reversed the horrible changes I'd reverted on every revision with my old Firefox during a time period where it seemed like every update had an unpleasant surprise like the elimination of the "http://" and so on and so forth (Sometimes I'd wind up even have to get into the enable/disable hidden options not in the UI at all). At that point, I just said screw it, I don't have 7 hours to spend doing this, if they want to be Chrome, I'll go use Chrome, because Chrome is always going to be the better Chrome, and downloaded that. Thank goodness I eventually found Pale Moon- what Firefox should be and isn't- so I didn't have to use either Chrome or Buggy-18 Months Behind-Chrome (aka Firefox).
Firefox doesn't offer an alternative to Chrome on desktop anymore. It's Chrome, on delay, with more bugs. Pale Moon is awesome and I really appreciate all the hard work MoonChild and Matt and everyone is putting in to offer it to us. Pale Moon is the true and only alternative.
A bit different on Android where Pale Moon isn't being actively developed and any browser is obviously are going to have a different UI than desktop anyway because it's a small touch screen. Firefox is still okay there, so I use it there (After realizing I could be using ad-block on mobile. Chrome doesn't offer it on mobile because it'd cut into their revenue and they wouldn't being pushed for marketshare on Android.) but I don't really trust them to keep it okay.
Something went horribly wrong with Mozilla a few years ago. It'll be interesting if someone on the inside ever comes out and really details why they suddenly decided they needed to be a locked down Chrome clone with no customize-ability.