On Monday 06 April 2009 3:49:48 am Erich Jansen wrote: > Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Monday 06 April 2009 3:22:10 am Erich Jansen wrote: > > > >> Jan Claeys wrote: > >> > >>> Op maandag 06-04-2009 om 00:43 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie > >>> Morgan: > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:55:10 pm Jan Claeys wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Actually, a running firefox shows you a warning and a restart button (or > >>>>> at least it did?) if it's older than the on-disk version. I guess > >>>>> that's part of the ubufox extension? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Yes, it does, but um...that kinda sucks. "I, the computer, demand that > >>>> > > you, > > > >>>> the user, stop what you are doing and restart your browser NOW, losing > >>>> > > all > > > >>>> your work in the process. This is not optional. I will barf if you try > >>>> > > to > > > >>>> continue with your work or save it in any way, such as submitting that > >>>> > > blog > > > >>>> post you just spent an hour writing." > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Doesn't restarting preserve the form contents? (I never really tried.) > >>> > >>> Anyway there might be some issues with it indeed. Maybe firefox updates > >>> should warn the users beforehand, somehow? I'm not sure how that would > >>> work though. Maybe delaying upgrades until shutdown *is* the right > >>> solution? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Yes it will preserve all your data for the restart. (just tried it out > >> in a VM) > >> > > > > Restarting FF keeps form contents too? I thought it only kept the tab list. > > > > > Yeah, I tried it out with Wordpress. Load a VM image and try it out. > Mine was the default install of Firefox updated to 3.08 under Intrepid.
I don't remember it doing that, but if you say so. Maybe that's one of the new Firefox 3 things. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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