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. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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