[Bug 274468] Re: Have firefox ask user to exit firefox *BEFORE* updating.

[Derek]

With regards to comment #11 - the idea of halting an application while updating it is not unusual for daemons.
Databases, whatever.

In this case the concept is the same.  There are a number of resources
on the file system referenced by the application and the profile and the
profile data stores that can be made inconsistent by the current system.

Comment #11 attempts to make this a Mozilla issue.  It is not.  It is
just common sense for any large, complex, software that may reference
replaced resources while running.

In fact, if this was *NOT* the case for Firefox, a prompt message to
restart it would not be needed.  The whole reason a prompt is needed is
that as Firefox loads things that got replaced, the application starts
to degrade.

This is clearly suboptimal and I'm puzzled at the pushback over this
simple solution.

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Have firefox ask user to exit firefox *BEFORE* updating.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274468
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