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?

  • Nakedmole
    16•9 months ago

    I have been using Firefox as my only browser for many, many years now and I have never seen that message before.

    • voxel
      14•9 months ago

      it only appears on linux if you update your browser while it’s running.
      iirc existing tabs usually just keep working but you cannot reload or open new ones until a full browser restart.

      • @funkyfarmington
        2•9 months ago

        Updating anything with stuff running is a bad idea. Yeah, yeah, I know all about the cases where this works, but I’ve spent too much time fixing it when it doesn’t.

    • RustmilianEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      You never update Firefox while using it?

      • @MrOtherGuy
        2•9 months ago

        If Firefox is using its own updater then it will notify that update is available and can even download it while it’s running. But the updater doesn’t normally apply the update (i.e. replace the program files on disk) until you restart Firefox so you can dismiss the update notification (not the one pictured in op) no worries.

        But if some other updater mechanism such as package manager is handling the updates then you can run into issues if it’s stupid enough to replace the files while Firefox is running.