Comment 16 for bug 252548

This is a really frustrating bug. Basically, Firefox needs to be fixed so that you can update it without affecting a *running* instance of FF, just like every other Linux program. One should only ever need to restart if they want to run the new version that was just installed. It's just bad, bad design that FF goes all to hell when a few of its files are replaced, opening empty windows, search stops working, etc. etc. I would consider this a serious issue, and popping up a little balloon to tell people to restart is a bad hack of a work-around for this problem. There is also a potential for data loss if Firefox does not save the session properly when it is in this half-working state after an update.