I'm on Windows and I don't recall the last time I was inconvenienced by a Firefox update. Like... I can't even remember what it actually does. OP must be running it on a potato or something.
Ubuntu has an even better approach. It updates silently while you are using it. Then your tab crashes. And when you retry it tells you to restart firefox. Truly genius *cheffs kiss
As an Arch user. I wanted to use Arch at work too. Well, they want me to use Kubuntu (or any other prefered Ubuntu, but I like KDE so I do what every other dev uses)... except for Home Office ofc. Arch.
Still. I hate this stupid update thing. Suddenly I get 20 notifications of KDE system wanting a reboot because of updates and Firefox doing exactly this.
The worst. When I open a new tab by middleclicking a link, the tab crashes. I restart Firefox and the new Tab is gone forever. Sometimes its easy to get what I saw but not always.
Then... don't do that? You can clear history and cookies manually really easily, so if you restart your browser less often than Firefox releases updates (every 4 weeks), you're just opening yourself up to hacks by running an insecure browser.
huh? at least on windows, firefox just uses its background maintenance service to take care of updates. no admin needed. I don't even notice when it happens, except for the occasional "what's new" page that opens along with firefox.
There is a comment below where someone posted a picture of the settings. Clearly it is insanely easy to make Firefox update in whatever way you want: automatic, manually, automatically in the background.
OP completely ignored facts and only wants their moment to stand on a soap box with their stupid and lazy complaint.
You've not used it on linux I guess. Update at some random point in time while you use it. Now I understand why it does it, but it's just horrible terrible unforgivable.
Yes, it's done by the package and when you configure it to, which in practice is right now.
Actually, that's one of the things Ubuntu got right with Snap (hate is as much as you want). They install the new version in the background without interrupting your flow. The next time, you close Firefox and choose to open it again....tada... it's the new version.
Yeah, I know when I update Firefox with pamac that when I next open it it's going to need to update. It takes 3 seconds and restores my open tabs afterwards. It's really not so bad.
The flatpak version updates in the background, doesn't interrupt if its already running, and is immediately on the latest version the next time you run firefox.
I don't think I've ever noticed Firefox updating. The only sign I get that it updates is that when it does a special tab opens telling me about the new features.
This is what I hate on school computers, and it drives people away from Firefox.
You don't have admin privilege, you can't update, so don't even try.
I always disable auto-updates on those.
, my work computer requires admin permissions to install anything. But for some reason, especially with Firefox or any other web browser. You can just click cancel on the enter the administrative password andshit screen and then it just installs anyways.
I imagine for security best practices, software prefers update on open (if not update on checking a central update server regularly like yum -whatever update), but for user convenience this would be better for so many things.
I see it like thank you that i don't have to go to Mozilla website and download the installer. So much time saved, and it only takes like 5 second without manually doing anything. On Linux i saw please restart Firefox tab and clicked it. No problem. I got the update fast.
I kinda have an up-to-date fetish, otherwise I wouldn't use Arch testing everywhere, so every time I boot up my PC I instinctively update the system, including firefox, despite that I am already using it.