Re:Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox...
by rockdoe on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:25AM
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>Before Firefox went multi-process it handled package updates just fine
No, the problem was just less common and things randomly stopped working or crashed instead of getting the warning page.
In theory you can design the browser so it keeps all files open and passes down the handles, but I imagine it's a mess to do that in practice, especially as Firefox is still somewhat configurable.
No, the problem was just less common and things randomly stopped working or crashed instead of getting the warning page.
In theory you can design the browser so it keeps all files open and passes down the handles, but I imagine it's a mess to do that in practice, especially as Firefox is still somewhat configurable.