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> You probably don’t want Firefox to update automatically, without your knowledge. A Firefox upgrade means you must immediately restart the browser. If this hap
by Seattle3503 5y ago
> You probably don’t want Firefox to update automatically, without your knowledge. A Firefox upgrade means you must immediately restart the browser. If this happens in the background while you’re doing something important, it can easily ruin your day.
I run into this issue very often. I use private browsing heavily, so the forced restart is very disruptive to my workload. I lose all my tabs and saved state.
- gs17 5y agoIt's subtly worse than that, I had unloaded tabs from a restored previous session, and the page it redirects to reminding you to restart overwrites them entirely when I tried to switch to them. At least private browsing tabs you were warned are a bit ephemeral.
- Izkata 5y agoPre-snap, Ubuntu does this through unattended-upgrades, it's not Firefox doing it itself. You can disable it: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1279041/disabling-firefox-background-upgrades https://askubuntu.com/questions/1279041/disabling-firefox-ba...
- Seattle3503 5y agoWow thank you for this, I didn't even reiterate this was something I could fix.