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by guerrilla 620 days ago
Interesting. On Arch, Firefox just refuses to keep working after I've updated and requests me to restart it.
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That is Firefox standalone behavior when it detects its files have been changed and differ from the ones loaded by the current instance. In theory, what snap is doing avoid changing files from a program while it is running.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Now, I don't know how your setup looks like, but I don't think anything is distributed as snaps by default on Arch. At least AFAIK its mostly an Ubuntu & derivatives thing.
Well, it was more broken in more interesting ways before they implemented the forced restart
Yeah, I remember. That was fun. haha