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

[Seth Vidal]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Adam Pribyl wrote:

> I also have troubles with this. The worst thing is that firefox often after 
> such update dies, without saving the tabs etc. as it does when it is killed. 
> And because it dies after update anyway, I would just suggest to put a 
> "killall firefox" in PREIN script. Because this will trigger the firefox 
> saving mechanism and would not cause a data loss.
>
> Regarding arguments - you should know as you are updating - this is not true, 
> if you are using e.g. updatesd and set it to update automaticaly.


this can help

http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/what-needs-to-be-restarted/

users can run that and it should tell them which programs they have 
running which need to be restarted.


-sv