Closed Bug 503500 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Extensions installation/update should not require restart

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256509

People

(Reporter: jlam, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 AutoPager/0.5.2.2 (http://www.teesoft.info/)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 AutoPager/0.5.2.2 (http://www.teesoft.info/)

The browser is becoming the primary platform of computing. Just like application install shouldn't require rebooting the OS, plugin installation shouldn't require restarting FF

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install/update extensions
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Firefox needs to be restarted

Expected Results:  
Firefox shouldn't need to be restarted
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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