Gord McFee wrote:
> DeMoN_LaG wrote:
>
>> JTK wrote:
>>
>>> I and everyone else on the planet despise software which requires
>>> rebooting after install. Especially if doing so is only so that said
>>> software can load (or rather, "preload") a bunch of crap into memory
>>> which I don't want there until I need it.
>>
>>
>> I installed the nightly from last night. I didn't have to reboot.
>> Hey, why are you using Mozilla. It's so buggy and unstable and
>> worthless. Get the hell of the browser then. Don't complain about it
>> and then use it, you freaking hypocrit
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> I have installed every nightly since the beginning of time and I have
> never had to reboot. But consider the source and remember Grevase's
> wise words about ignoring this clown.
>
I install a new Moz probably once a day (sometimes more), *do* care that
both Mozilla *and* Netscape survive and even succeed, and have been
asked to reboot every now and again--maybe once every two or three
weeks. Don't really know why, since I assume they're not mucking with
system files. I figure there's an interaction between the installer and
the OS's installer instrumentation, and that the instrumentation may be
sending a signal meaning "You should tell the user to reboot." I have
also seen cases where Wordperfect 9 will crash if started just after
Moz' install; killing WP then restarting it clears that.
It's win2000, there's a lot going on in there we don't know about,
unfortunately. We'll spin ourselves to death trying to rationalize why
one box behaves one way, the other, some other way.
