Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Monday 06 April 2009 3:49:48 am Erich Jansen wrote:
> Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >   
> 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.

I don't remember it doing that, but if you say so.  Maybe that's one of the 
new Firefox 3 things.

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