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Ep1cFac3pa1mFirefox FTW!
rtxnYes, but only begrudgingly.
(edit) oh no, Iāve said something bad about the lesser evil, and the people who have made it their identity to violently cum all over the first thing that isnāt owned by Google are after me. I hope the pipe bomb hitman is at least polite.
TheTechnician27Nah, Firefox is way better.
I just wish Firefox updates werenāt so intrusive. Having it hit me with āFirefox updated in the background, restart to continue using Firefoxā while Iām trying to use QuickBooks for my job is so disruptive when QuickBooks doesnāt save automatically and never opens back up to where I left it off. I wonāt go back to Chrome, but I never had it pull that sort of forced restart on me.
Altima NEOYou can disable that. I have mine set to notify me when updates are available
Amazing, Iāll give that a shot
Iām happy that they give an option but goddamn would it kill them to have the safe option as the default for once?
BarbarianThere are lots of people who will never update if asked to update at their leisure. I think itās far better for user security to have updates be forced by default, with the option to schedule them yourself.
Or batch update some of your apps
Patch My PC Home Updater
Looks like it didnāt work unfortunately š Thank you for the suggestion though!
Ah. I guess I donāt notice that since Iām 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 wonāt auto update anymore. I agree that would be annoying.
Thanks! I had no idea this setting existed and it will make Firefox so much more practical for me to use.
I legitimately forgot this used to happen to me on Windows, itās so convenient being able to update all the software on my system with the click of a button
From what I understand, Chrome doesnāt 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 youāre 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.
Restart Firefox to let it finish updating. I donāt think Iāve ever seen a screen that says you HAVE to restart right now at this very moment.
When it happens, it doesnāt let me do anything other than stay on the already loaded webpage without restarting.
Open a new tab > āRestart to continueā¦ā
Click a link > āRestart to continueā¦ā
Type a URL > āRestart to continueā¦ā
and etc
What OS? I almost never close out of Firefox on my Macs at home and Iāve never seen that message there. FF on Windows seems to be the same. Itās been ages though since Iāve left FF open for months on end on Linux though.
Windows 10
Same on MacOS
rudyharrelsonIāve had this same experience on Linux Mint. Iāll run apt update & apt upgrade and, occasionally, if Firefox is one of the things being updated, new tabs and new pages wonāt 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 Iām like, āDangit, didnāt realize this update would require a restart to keep using Firefox.ā
It happens on Linux ā after your package manager has updated Firefox. Which typically means that you told it to. So itās not really a surprise.
JackbyDevThey said at work, perhaps it is a corporate thingy that forces them to be on the mandated version.
I got it again unfortunately, hereās a screenshot of what it looks like
I found this. superuser.com/ā¦/how-can-i-make-firefox-stop-forciā¦
On Linux, disabling Firefox updates in Firefox itself will not fix this issue, because Firefoxās own updater doesnāt actually have this bug! You get this warning when the Linux package manager has already replaced the files underneath the running program.
You say itās windows, but I think you said itās a work machine so maybe theyāre updating firefox from under you?
