Re:Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final
by ElectricalUnion on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:49PM
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> When Firefox is updated by apt on 20.04, it keeps working until I open a new tab. Then it shows a page asking me to restart the browser and won't do anything else until I comply. This is a choice of Mozilla.
Parts of the program were updated and now the program is in a not tested, half-updated, half-old state.
The "other choice" for Mozilla is pretending nothing happened, attempt to open the tab, probably immediatly segfaulting and losing all your current work in a potentially unrecoverable way. Not really a good choice under most circunstances.
Re:Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final
by pmontra on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:06AM
(#34049675)
It started doing that only a few months ago. Apparently it worked in the half updated state before then but of course the implementation and the update process could have changed.
Parts of the program were updated and now the program is in a not tested, half-updated, half-old state.
The "other choice" for Mozilla is pretending nothing happened, attempt to open the tab, probably immediatly segfaulting and losing all your current work in a potentially unrecoverable way. Not really a good choice under most circunstances.