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submitted 10 months ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] Liquid_Fire@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months 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.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Any chance you've got Firefox from MS Store?

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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