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[openFATE 308658] Restart button in Firefox
- From: fate_noreply@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:02:40 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <feature-308658-12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Feature changed by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu)
Feature #308658, revision 12
Title: Restart button in Firefox
openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation
Priority
Requester: Mandatory
Requested by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk)
Description:
We release a lot of MozillaFirefox updates. Every update has the risk,
that parts of an already running firefox don't work anymore. Especially
popup-windows are very often empty afterwards.
Because of the broken popup windows, it is not always possible to close
firefox and start it again without loosing the current sessions.
If you configure themes and/or plugins, MozillaFirefox offers sometimes
a "restart" button. We shoud provide this functionality in the standard
menu, too, so that customers can restart firefox without loosing data.
Discussion:
#1: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2010-01-08 07:25:33)
What do you mean by "standard menu"?
Are there other possibilities to fix that usecase probably? IIRC Ubuntu
is using some kind of notifier if an update happens to Firefox to allow
the user to restart or close prior to the update. I'd need to look into
their implementation but anyhow they are probably relying on some
package manager feature anyway here.
#3: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) (2010-01-11 15:31:10) (reply to #1)
With standard menu, I mean something like File->Restart like File-
>Exit.
The other, much better possibilities to fix that usecase problem
probably is to make sure that all Firefox components always stay
compatible.
Else I don't know if there are other solutions, but I'm open for
suggestions.
+ #5: Sławomir Lach (lachu) (2010-09-15 13:02:37)
+ I suggest simply add lock files onto programs and package managers.
+
+ It will be global lock files signalizing program are already running
+ (for example in /tmp). Packages should contains path to this global
+ lock files.
+
+ Problems:
+ - We must modify a lot of programs, like Firefox, to create global lock
+ files
+ - We must check how it works on multiuser environment(one user can turn
+ off Firefox, but others not)
+ - We must disallow program to run on update time
--
openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/308658
Feature #308658, revision 12
Title: Restart button in Firefox
openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation
Priority
Requester: Mandatory
Requested by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk)
Description:
We release a lot of MozillaFirefox updates. Every update has the risk,
that parts of an already running firefox don't work anymore. Especially
popup-windows are very often empty afterwards.
Because of the broken popup windows, it is not always possible to close
firefox and start it again without loosing the current sessions.
If you configure themes and/or plugins, MozillaFirefox offers sometimes
a "restart" button. We shoud provide this functionality in the standard
menu, too, so that customers can restart firefox without loosing data.
Discussion:
#1: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2010-01-08 07:25:33)
What do you mean by "standard menu"?
Are there other possibilities to fix that usecase probably? IIRC Ubuntu
is using some kind of notifier if an update happens to Firefox to allow
the user to restart or close prior to the update. I'd need to look into
their implementation but anyhow they are probably relying on some
package manager feature anyway here.
#3: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) (2010-01-11 15:31:10) (reply to #1)
With standard menu, I mean something like File->Restart like File-
>Exit.
The other, much better possibilities to fix that usecase problem
probably is to make sure that all Firefox components always stay
compatible.
Else I don't know if there are other solutions, but I'm open for
suggestions.
+ #5: Sławomir Lach (lachu) (2010-09-15 13:02:37)
+ I suggest simply add lock files onto programs and package managers.
+
+ It will be global lock files signalizing program are already running
+ (for example in /tmp). Packages should contains path to this global
+ lock files.
+
+ Problems:
+ - We must modify a lot of programs, like Firefox, to create global lock
+ files
+ - We must check how it works on multiuser environment(one user can turn
+ off Firefox, but others not)
+ - We must disallow program to run on update time
--
openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/308658
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