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I struggled mightily with Firefox's tendency (on Ubuntu) to suddenly and (at least until recently without any notice) tell me "Firefox must restart right now, a
by danbmil99 4y ago
I struggled mightily with Firefox's tendency (on Ubuntu) to suddenly and (at least until recently without any notice) tell me "Firefox must restart right now, and will make a feeble/futile attempt to restore your pages". Terrible, terrible UX.
Finally, I just uninstalled the snap version and downloaded/installed the .deb manually. So far so good -- I guess some day I might get hit with a security problem or some must-have feature, but at least I don't randomly have to restart Firefox every few weeks without prior notification.
- Izkata 4y agoFirefox has a built-in upgrade mechanism that doesn't rely on a package manager. I don't know if the .deb has it active, but it's worth checking, so if it is active you wouldn't have to worry about it.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoI think you can point a direct line to that behavior and me installing PopOS. A web browser is my most used application and Ubuntu thinks they have the right to effectively crash it unexpectedly.
- ilyt 4y agoThey took thing people hated in windows update and ported it to ubuntu lmao
- asddubs 4y agoyou can use this ppa to keep it updated https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
- FullyFunctional 4y agoThanks, but personally I don't want a workaround. I want a distribution that does the right thing. I have used Ubuntu for decades and use it everywhere. I hate to have to change, but as always, good things don't last.