On 4-Feb-09, at 3:38 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > I for one get annoyingly frequent XUL errors when opening bookmarks, > or > when entering URLs directly into the magnificentbar, after upgrading > Mozilla (I can't vouch for whether this has happened only for major > version upgrades - I believe it's happened at least once on a minor > upgrade). Could it be something related to the dynamic loading of > javascript & the DOM changing? Thunderbird & the address book has > similar issues.
If distro packages are overwriting the files with Firefox running, then yes, you could get that effect. That's one reason our updater doesn't work that way. :-/ Another is so that if something goes wrong with installing update, the user is much more likely to have a working browser left to use to research a solution! The combination of not screwing with the app while it's running, plus in-band notification, plus shipping small deltas and downloading them in the background, plus restoring the user's session[*] after upgrade have given us a really good rate of update installation; it's now less than 5 days for a given minor update to hit 90% adoption. Our delta and patching code are available for anyone to use, of course, and those pieces don't depend on anything else in our stack. [*] not yet integrated into X session stuff, or preserving window position well -- would love some help with that from some experts in such technology! Mike _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
