On 4-Feb-09, at 12:17 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Going with your example of silent upgrades, I still have one question: > > I have konqueror open with 10 tabs and have no plans to close them > as they > have many TODO items (I'm surviving with swsusp). > > A Konqueror vulnerability was discovered and was silently updated on > my box by > my distro vendor. Am I not supposed to be restarting my web browser > for the fix > to be effective ?
Indeed, being able to restore the user's state after a restart or other update-required disruption is pretty key to having users stay up- to-date. Session restore might be the most significant security feature we've ever put in Firefox, in terms of aggregate user-exposure reduction. Mike _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
