Bug#882156: firefox-esr: Upgrading firefox should somehow prompt users to restart running instances

[Axel Beckert]

Yay, Popcorn!

Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Consider, for example, an unattended-upgrades process that 
> > installs security updates automatically.  Users may continue 
> > to run instances of old insecure versions for long periods 
> > with no indication that an upgrade has been installed.  
> > Generally, Debian will restart long-running system processes 
> > (i.e. daemons) in this sort of situation but not user processes.  
> > This is a particular issue for firefox because of its security 
> > characteristics.
> 
> That's not limited to firefox. That's also true of libreoffice, gnome,
> chromium, etc.

Nope. It's definitely not true for Chromium. (And not for the
Firefox-based Tor Browser either.) Chromium and Tor Browser both
notify their users as Phil wants it for Firefox. And as it had been
implemented (IMHO successfully) for Firefox years ago.

That feature though was removed again from the Debian package (and
IIRC never managed to land in stable) as it was said to "not work
properly". I though can't remember that I ever had issues with that
feature, really appreciated the feature and never understood why it
was removed again from Debian's Firefox.

So please reintroduce this feature again.

Upstream should really understand the need for such feature as they're
copying everything Chrome/Chromium does anyway. So why not copying
that feature, too? </cynism>

		Regards, Axel
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