cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • @gaylord_fartmaster
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    6528 days ago

    Just turn the updates off. Might want to remove the seatbelts from your car too, so annoying having to put them on and take them off every time you need to drive somewhere.

    • @btaf45
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      28 days ago

      Doesn’t work. Firefox keeps nagging me to update every freaking time I open the browser. Now if they let me turn the nagging off it wouldn’t be so bad.

      I want an update once per quarter, not once per week. Only more often than that if there is a critical security fix.

        • @btaf45
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          -728 days ago

          How does that help with unwanted update nagging?

          • @tomalley8342
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            1228 days ago

            You will get one update per year, and “only more often that that if there is a critical security fix”.

            • @[email protected]
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              28 days ago

              There’s no winning. Some people use the regular version and complain about the updates, while others use the ESR release and complain that sites that use cutting-edge features don’t work properly.

              The solution to updates is to use Linux, since then it’ll update through your distro’s package manager along with your other software.

              • @[email protected]
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                127 days ago

                Chrome does this just fine on windows. It just updates in the background so the only thing you need to do is (re)open chrome and it’s done. Firefox doesn’t, and waits until you try to launch it to update. On my laptop where I use FF infrequently makes it’s startup time about 30 seconds basically every time I open it.