Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #36739
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 36739

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: MASTER Misbehaves in all sorts of ways when upgraded while running

Quick status update.

Good news is that we have made progress. The light bulb is really something that never worked good enough; we improved the situation through ubufox. We disaplay a "restart notification bar" on top if you upgrade while running. Hitting the restart button usually works. Unfortunately there are still cases where even that restart button doesn't work. So its not yet the complete solution.

One idea to continue from here would probably be to set firefox into some kind of upgrade mode from outside (maybe through dbus or otherwise through XRemoteClient facility) when a system upgrade starts. This mode would not load new chrome or components that are not in memory yet and instead could ask the user to wait (till upgrade has finished) and finally restart (after upgrade has finished).

Not a simple task though ...