[Desktop_architects] Shouldn't distros and ISVs ensure that security updates get deployed promptly?

[Dave Neary]

Hi Mike,

Mike Shaver wrote:
> On 4-Feb-09, at 12:28 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
>> Yes.   And there are lots of opportunities to annoy the user here
>> (e.g. Firefox doesn't get this right yet, as the browser is kind of broken
>> after the update until you restart it).
> 
> How so?  Until you update, all that's done is downloading the delta
> file, so nothing is done until you restart...  If downloading that delta
> archive is hurting the browser, I would quite appreciate a bug report so
> we can look into it; I haven't heard that report before.

I for one get annoyingly frequent XUL errors when opening bookmarks, or
when entering URLs directly into the magnificentbar, after upgrading
Mozilla (I can't vouch for whether this has happened only for major
version upgrades - I believe it's happened at least once on a minor
upgrade). Could it be something related to the dynamic loading of
javascript & the DOM changing? Thunderbird & the address book has
similar issues.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary at gnome.org