• unalivejoy
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    9110 months ago

    Meanwhile on Windows: “That’s just my antivirus. Yeah… I won’t be very productive for the next 20 minutes.”

    It’s a real problem. I think there’s a Firefox bug where Firefox will freeze while checking for updates while the CPU is under heavy load.

    • @grue
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      10 months ago

      It’s fucked-up that Firefox even checks for updates itself (instead of letting the package manager do it) in the first place. It wouldn’t have the bug if it didn’t have the unnecessary functionality.

      • @[email protected]
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        1410 months ago

        Just invent a physical package manager where you get all your software packages in the mail every week :D

      • @[email protected]
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        1110 months ago

        Interesting. On which distro? I don’t have this problem on Fedora. Here the update check is disabled by default.

        • @grue
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          2010 months ago

          In context, my comment was really more about dunking on Windows for not having proper package management. Firefox only “needs” that feature because it’s working around Windows’ deficiencies.

          • @[email protected]
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            310 months ago

            I’m pretty sure it’s disabled on the M$ Store version.

            Also, on macOS it’s so annoying that literally every app checks for (and even wants to install) updates while I have the Brew package manager installed.

      • @[email protected]
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        910 months ago

        You can disable it, but yeah… You shouldn’t have to if it’s being handled by the package manager

    • Raccoonn
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      510 months ago

      I can make Firefox use way too much resources simply by visiting an Instagram profile & opening the toolbox on a few posts to inspect the code…