Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com writes:
Other applications don't seem to have problems with in-place updates. Why isn't anyone filing bugs on Firefox upstream?
Emacs is broken the same way. The old running emacs also loses when the pathnames for its runtime files changes to a path containing the new version number. I think this failure mode is going to exist for any program that comes with a large bundle of runtime loadable code.
-wolfgang