Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

[Erich Jansen]

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Monday 06 April 2009 3:22:10 am Erich Jansen wrote:
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>> Jan Claeys wrote:
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>>> Op maandag 06-04-2009 om 00:43 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie
>>> Morgan:
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>>>> On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:55:10 pm Jan Claeys wrote:
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>>>>> 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?
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>>>> Yes, it does, but um...that kinda sucks. "I, the computer, demand that 
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> you, 
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>>>> the user, stop what you are doing and restart your browser NOW, losing 
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>>>> your work in the process.  This is not optional.  I will barf if you try 
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>>>> continue with your work or save it in any way, such as submitting that 
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> blog 
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>>>> post you just spent an hour writing."
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>>> Doesn't restarting preserve the form contents?  (I never really tried.)
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>>> 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?
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>> Yes it will preserve all your data for the restart. (just tried it out 
>> in a VM)
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> Restarting FF keeps form contents too?  I thought it only kept the tab list.
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Yeah, I tried it out with Wordpress. Load a VM image and try it out. 
Mine was the default install of Firefox updated to 3.08 under Intrepid.

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Erich Matthew Jansen
erich at stoptouchingmethere.com