Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Monday 06 April 2009 3:22:10 am Erich Jansen wrote:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op maandag 06-04-2009 om 00:43 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie
> > Morgan:
> >   
> >> On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:55:10 pm Jan Claeys wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Actually, a running firefox shows you a warning and a restart button (or
> >>> at least it did?) if it's older than the on-disk version.  I guess
> >>> that's part of the ubufox extension?
> >>>       
> >> Yes, it does, but um...that kinda sucks. "I, the computer, demand that 
you, 
> >> the user, stop what you are doing and restart your browser NOW, losing 
all 
> >> your work in the process.  This is not optional.  I will barf if you try 
to 
> >> continue with your work or save it in any way, such as submitting that 
blog 
> >> post you just spent an hour writing."
> >>     
> >
> > Doesn't restarting preserve the form contents?  (I never really tried.)
> >
> > Anyway there might be some issues with it indeed.  Maybe firefox updates
> > should warn the users beforehand, somehow?  I'm not sure how that would
> > work though.  Maybe delaying upgrades until shutdown *is* the right
> > solution?
> >
> >
> >   
> Yes it will preserve all your data for the restart. (just tried it out 
> in a VM)

Restarting FF keeps form contents too?  I thought it only kept the tab list.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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