On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/18/2012 09:24 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> I run Mozilla's nightly builds and receive updates every day. They >> disrupt nothing because Mozilla has built infrastructure to make that >> possible. Firefox must be restarted for the updates to take effect, >> which is when it does the actual swapout of the staged files, but the >> restart is basically just a window flickering— tabs retain their >> state, including forms— in fact to prove the point I manually >> triggered it while writing this email. > Your anecdata does not match my anecdata. Both Firefox and Thunderbird will > malfunction in strange and subtle ways if the package is while the > application is running. A restart of the application is required before > things start behaving as expected. There are enough people out there > experiencing this that one cannot wave it off as hallucinations. It is a > real problem that exists despite your experience to the opposite. I'm not waving it off. It's something which Mozilla has fixed in their nightly update process which is not addressed in Fedora updates for Firefox. Mozilla nightly pre-stages the update and then does the update on startup. When combined with persisting the application state across restarts it makes the whole thing painless. Otherwise, yes, it can be problematic, as firefox does runtime dlopening and such and can end up inconsistent if you swap out files out from under it. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
