I find it incredibly disruptive every time this page comes up and it’s never completely capable of restoring my tabs. Is there any way to disable it so that it will instead update when I choose to restart Firefox?

  • @Pyrarrows
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    1177 months ago

    When this happens, Firefox has been updated in the background & the non-updated parts that’re loaded into memory attempted to load one of the updated parts & found that they were no longer compatible, causing this message to appear.

    At this point you HAVE to restart Firefox in order to be able to use it, no way around it. Soooo very fun on Mac & Linux since both can update in the background. It’s also possible to have this happen on Windows, but it’s far more rare as it seems to require having multiple different instances running at once.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      On Linux at least, if you install through the package manager, it’ll only update when you update the rest of your packages. And you can be completely in control of when that happens.

      On my work Mac, I just update manually. The menu icon tells me when a new version is available, so I update within a day or two of that popping up.

      • @[email protected]
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        117 months ago

        On Linux at least, if you install through the package manager, it’ll only update when you update the rest of your packages. And you can be completely in control of when that happens.

        Except on Ubuntu. Also, fuck snaps

          • @[email protected]
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            57 months ago

            Ubuntu installs the snap version by default whether you’re using the GUI software manager or apt.

            I use Mint instead nowadays

            • Carighan Maconar
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              27 months ago

              Damn, computers have gotten really far if nowadays we’re happily throwing away the performance of dockerizing ˜everything on entirely normal application installs. Sigh.

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        7 months ago

        Sucks when the company I work in uses Kubuntu.

        I could disable this feature easily. But idk…

        Additionally something to keep in mind: Better than Windows in every aspect. I would still use Kubuntu. Its fine.

    • @[email protected]
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      177 months ago

      Probably doesn’t happen as much on Windows because Windows has issues replacing files that are open.

      • @scarilog
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        67 months ago

        Common windows W 😎

        ^/s