Does firefox upgrades need some pre/post install love to close and restart firefox during upgrades

[Vedran Miletić]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:38 +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Richard Ryniker wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >  Can the Fedora update mechanism hook into the original Firefox update
>> >  scheme in some way that allows Firefox to continue its successful
>> >  update strategy and avoid the reported Fedora breakage?
>> >
>>
>> This is something I am asking too. Maybe the best thing would be to ask
>> Mozilla, if they have some bright idea howto solve this.
>
> Why should we have one application have a different update process from
> every other application?
>
> That way lies madness.
>
> I don't understand why everyone's tip-toeing around Firefox's
> brokenness, here. Other applications don't seem to have problems with
> in-place updates. Why isn't anyone filing bugs on Firefox upstream?
>
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Are you telling that I can update OpenOffice.org while running and it
wil be completely functional without restarting?

If that's the case, I'm filling bug on b.m.o. straight away.

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Vedran Miletić