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Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:13 UTC (Thu) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)
In reply to: Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable by johill
Parent article: Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Are you sure that hibernating puts the image on swap? I don't see that as a possibility since if you have swapped out data that is already on the swap partition, it will be overwritten. That nearly guarantees a crash of some type when you turn on the computer again.


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Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:17 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Yes, hibernation uses the swap partition.

Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Um, hibernation isn't that dumb. It uses *unused* swap. It doesn't
overwrite swapped-out pages. :)

(of course if you don't have enough swap free, you can't suspend to swap.)

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