• atocci@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I just wish Firefox updates weren’t so intrusive. Having it hit me with “Firefox updated in the background, restart to continue using Firefox” while I’m trying to use QuickBooks for my job is so disruptive when QuickBooks doesn’t save automatically and never opens back up to where I left it off. I won’t go back to Chrome, but I never had it pull that sort of forced restart on me.

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      3 months ago

      You can disable that. I have mine set to notify me when updates are available

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      3 months ago

      From what I understand, Chrome doesn’t need to do this, because when you close it, it keeps running in the background and does its upgrades then, which is also pretty intrusive.

      If you’re updating Firefox via the built-in auto-updater, you can tell it in the settings that it should only install updates when you tell it to do so.

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      3 months ago

      Ah. I guess I don’t notice that since I’m on Linux and just update Firefox whenever I want.

      If you go to Hamburger menu > Settings > General > Check for updates but let you choose to install them, you won’t auto update anymore. I agree that would be annoying.

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        3 months ago

        When it happens, it doesn’t let me do anything other than stay on the already loaded webpage without restarting.

        Open a new tab > “Restart to continue…”
        Click a link > “Restart to continue…”
        Type a URL > “Restart to continue…”
        and etc

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          3 months ago

          What OS? I almost never close out of Firefox on my Macs at home and I’ve never seen that message there. FF on Windows seems to be the same. It’s been ages though since I’ve left FF open for months on end on Linux though.

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            3 months ago

            I’ve had this same experience on Linux Mint. I’ll run apt update & apt upgrade and, occasionally, if Firefox is one of the things being updated, new tabs and new pages won’t load and will tell me I need to do a system restart to continue browsing.

            I always update manually, so it never happens without me initiating the update first. But sometimes I’m like, “Dangit, didn’t realize this update would require a restart to keep using Firefox.”

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        3 months ago

        It happens on Linux – after your package manager has updated Firefox. Which typically means that you told it to. So it’s not really a surprise.