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That's...not the case (and never has been) for me. You only restart it when you get an update (in which case that wouldn't be very often)? Or you did something

That's...not the case (and never has been) for me. You only restart it when you get an update (in which case that wouldn't be very often)? Or you did something whacky in about:config? Or maybe a bad extension. Dunno, not normal

selfhoster11 5y ago
Maybe you have an old profile. I often see this kind of messaging when starting up Firefox on a freshly installed OS.
tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
May be OS-specific, or it may not happen when you've set Firefox to restore previous tabs when restarting, or there may be a way to turn it off. I don't remember seeing many of these on my actual machine (I did get the color scheme nonsense if I remember correctly), but I'm constantly seeing these in dev/testing VMs where I just installed it for testing and occasionally keep it updated.
Steltek 5y ago
Updates are probably more frequent on the Beta/Aurora/Whatever channel?
nikanj 5y ago
I only start FF when I get a customer report about an issue on FF. I guess I start it seldom enough to always trigger some sort of watchdog? Anyway, here's my 2 cents. I only open FireFox when a customer reports an issue, and I'm always barraged by a deluge of unwanted info, which doesn't encourage me to open FF more often.
- jamesgeck0 5y ago
  If you're on the stable channel you'll see a single tab of "unwanted info" once every six weeks. Half the time it's just a generic "Firefox updated!" page.
dpedu 5y ago
I don't often relaunch my apps but I relaunched firefox just now to see what would happen to test this. Here's what I was greeted with - an ad for pocket: https://i.imgur.com/hYYZYE3.png https://i.imgur.com/hYYZYE3.png
- temp0826 5y ago
  Huh that's fun...I've had pocket disabled for so long that I forgot it was a thing. I've always been pretty vigilant about turning off nonsense like pocket, so I suppose I'm not as typical of a ff user as I thought...but still think what the parent comment described sounds abnormal.
  - vb6sp6 5y ago

selfhoster11 5y ago

Maybe you have an old profile. I often see this kind of messaging when starting up Firefox on a freshly installed OS.

tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago

May be OS-specific, or it may not happen when you've set Firefox to restore previous tabs when restarting, or there may be a way to turn it off. I don't remember seeing many of these on my actual machine (I did get the color scheme nonsense if I remember correctly), but I'm constantly seeing these in dev/testing VMs where I just installed it for testing and occasionally keep it updated.

Steltek 5y ago

Updates are probably more frequent on the Beta/Aurora/Whatever channel?

nikanj 5y ago

I only start FF when I get a customer report about an issue on FF. I guess I start it seldom enough to always trigger some sort of watchdog? Anyway, here's my 2 cents. I only open FireFox when a customer reports an issue, and I'm always barraged by a deluge of unwanted info, which doesn't encourage me to open FF more often.

jamesgeck0 5y ago
If you're on the stable channel you'll see a single tab of "unwanted info" once every six weeks. Half the time it's just a generic "Firefox updated!" page.

dpedu 5y ago

I don't often relaunch my apps but I relaunched firefox just now to see what would happen to test this. Here's what I was greeted with - an ad for pocket: https://i.imgur.com/hYYZYE3.png https://i.imgur.com/hYYZYE3.png

temp0826 5y ago
Huh that's fun...I've had pocket disabled for so long that I forgot it was a thing. I've always been pretty vigilant about turning off nonsense like pocket, so I suppose I'm not as typical of a ff user as I thought...but still think what the parent comment described sounds abnormal.
- vb6sp6 5y ago