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.
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