Beagle 'firefox extension' broke

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Apr 19 08:17:19 UTC 2006


On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 pribyl at lowlevel.cz wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Benjy Grogan wrote:
>
>> 
>> PS: I was under the impression that if I updated Firefox while Firefox
>> was running in userspace, that a kill signal would be sent to Firefox
>> but this never happened.  Only when I exited Firefox and restarted it
>> did v.1.5.0.2 load.
>
> IMHO: None of user apps is killed on update. Only deamons are usually 
> restarted. Do you think killing KDE on its update is wise thing? Or forcing 
> reset after kernel update? :)
>
> Update should not broke any part of application because it is runing. The 
> only thing that could be broken is new package itself.

At least Firefox and Mozilla do break regularly in various strange ways 
when updated while running requiring a restart.

 	- Panu -




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