Restart Button for Firefox. An updated version of https://github.com/Endor8/userChrome.js/tree/master/restartfirefoxbutton_movable. Middle click also empties the script cache.

RestartFirefoxButton_Movable.uc.js

(function() {
    if (location != 'chrome://browser/content/browser.xul' && location != 'chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml')
        return;

    try {
        CustomizableUI.createWidget({
            id: 'restart-button',
            type: 'custom',
            defaultArea: CustomizableUI.AREA_NAVBAR,
                onBuild: function(aDocument) {
                    var toolbaritem = aDocument.createElementNS('http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul', 'toolbarbutton');
                    toolbaritem.onclick = event => onClick(event);
                    var props = {
                        id: 'restart-button',
                        class: 'toolbarbutton-1 chromeclass-toolbar-additional',
                        label: 'Restart',
                        tooltiptext: 'Restart (with middle click userChrome.js cache is emptied)',
                                    style: 'list-style-image: url(chrome://browser/skin/sync.svg)'
                    };
                    for(var p in props)
                        toolbaritem.setAttribute(p, props[p]);
                    return toolbaritem;
                }
        });
    } catch(e) {};

    function onClick(event) {
        if(event.button == 1)
            Services.appinfo.invalidateCachesOnRestart();
        else if(event.button == 2) 
            return;

        let cancelQuit = Cc["@mozilla.org/supports-PRBool;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsISupportsPRBool);
        Services.obs.notifyObservers(cancelQuit, "quit-application-requested", "restart");
        if(!cancelQuit.data) 
            Services.startup.quit(Services.startup.eAttemptQuit | Services.startup.eRestart);
    }
})();

Restart restored, thank you all so much. I had upgraded to 78.3esr and it broke userchrome and the restart button.

Tabs on the top again, those ba****rds!!!

@rpolo77 and @you74674

Firefox 82.02

I followed the instructions.

Save config.js to Firefox installation folder, next to firefox.exe
Save config-prefs.js into \defaults\pref inside Firefox installation folder, next to channel-prefs.js
Save userChrome.js into Firefox chrome folder, next to userChrome.css
and it works

Also moved RestartFirefoxButton_Movable.uc.js to the chrome folder, but the button does not appear.

Is this still supposed to work, or am I missing something? Can someone post what the button looks like?

Did you go to Customize and add the button to your toolbar area?

Button looks like this: https://prnt.sc/vdnwr0

Guess what? I didn't have RestartFirefoxButton_Movable.uc.js in the Chrome folder after all. Dumb.

So happy. Works fine. Been hoping to find this type of restart option for a long time now.

In past custom button setups, it was possible to source the button image from a local file. I still have the previous RestartFirefoxButton_Movable.uc.js. The section of that file pertaning to the button starts with

var dataUrl = "data:image/png;base64," +

after which the base 64 code is added.

Can someone tell me if this can be done, and if so, how?

Thanks

I just upgraded to Firefox 89, and the restart button icon changed

Firefox 88.01

Firefox 89

Is there a way to bring it back?

It doesn't work :(