Why can’t the devs have it update in the background or on next startup? I was in the middle of my work when I got this. Now I need to close everything and go through all the logins and 2FA again. 😡

Chrome is much better at this, hands down. It has never interrupted me the way Firefox does during updates.

  • @[email protected]
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    301 year ago

    I feel like I only see this on Linux installs and never on windows.

      • @Liquid_Fire
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        271 year ago

        Are you sure you don’t have some other software updating Firefox in the background?

        Normally this only happens on Linux when your package manager updates Firefox while it’s running, and on Windows that doesn’t happen because Firefox updates itself only when you (re)start it.

        • @Theoriginalthon
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          On Ubuntu it’s because it’s a snap package, and snap does whatever it wants. I have not yet been inconvenienced enough to bend it to my will yet

          • Ben
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            11 year ago

            Yet another reason never to use Snaps. Why would you allow Ubuntu to force you to use the bloated Snap package?

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥OP
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          11 year ago

          No, I don’t have any such updater programs. Firefox and other programs update themselves or show a pop-up saying new version is available.

          on Windows that doesn’t happen because Firefox updates itself only when you (re)start it.

          I always thought it updates itself in the background and asks user to restart browser? Is that not the case here?

          • @Tolstoy
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            1 year ago

            Any chance you’ve got Firefox from MS Store?

        • @rtxn
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          11 year ago

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      • squiblet
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        51 year ago

        Odd. For me FF only updates when I open Firefox. I think I’ve seen this before but only a long time ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Not on the Linux systems I’m familiar with. The only way to trigger anything similar is to execute a package update while running FF, at which point new tabs will show a message to restart, but you can keep on using the open ones indefinitely.

    • Caveman
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      31 year ago

      Never seen it on Linux in all 5 years I’ve used it.

    • El Barto
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      01 year ago

      I’ve seen them on macos.