Firefox not broken in Breezy

[Paul M Edwards]

This situation is handled in the Windows installer by detecting that
Firefox is running and prompting the user about it.

The user can press OK to close Firefox and proceed with the install or
Cancel to abort installation. Or, the user can close Firefox manually
(after bookmarking the current tabs for example) and then press OK to
proceed.

A similar dialog could easily be accomplished with pidof, Zenity and
killall in the Ubuntu installation script.

Paul



On 10/12/05, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> >>As explained in the bugzilla issue, its the install/update script that
> >>does not manage running Firefox at the same time upgrading it. So I'd
> >>say its the firefox package that has got an issue.
> >
> > No, it isn't.  It is the application which misbehaves.
>
> I don't want to nitpick, but isn't the application also contained in the
> package?
>
> > There is nothing
> > that the packaging can do to fix this, short of killing your running firefox
> > to force you to restart it (which would be worse).
>
> Actually, I prefer restarting Firefox to having to manually remove
> .mozilla after an update. Also, this issue is not documented (for
> example a message box that explains the problem when updating), so
> non-powerusers will be left with a non-functional web browser.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andreas