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[Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the single .jar file for local chrome content is coming to Firefox
4.  I'm not sure what the implications are to the issue of restarting upon
updating though.

Sohail Mirza


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Jan Claeys <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Op donderdag 26-08-2010 om 00:40 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Remco:
> > Does anyone know why Firefox breaks down so horribly after each minor
> > update? No other program does that.
>
> Firefox uses a bunch of JavaScript, XUL (= XML), CSS, image, etc. files
> for its UI, and to me it seems like it doesn't load everything in memory
> all the time, so after an upgrade it "reloads" parts of the new version
> into the old one (or something is not there anymore in the new version
> or any other change that might happen).
>
> Something similar might actually happen in other applications too, e.g.
> if they load plugins on demand ("when needed"), it's just that it's less
> likely to happen in most applications.  And most applications would
> probably just crash instead of showing funny-looking XML processing
> errors...  ;)
>
> One possible (partial?) solution could be if Firefox would load
> everything from one big *.jar and keep that file open.  Not sure what
> that would do to performance though, or if it has other disadvantages.
>
>
> --
> Jan Claeys
>
>
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