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I hate Snap, but from what I experienced, I also don't think that the problem is related to it but some shitty logic in Firefox. Regarding the "excuse" that it
by greatgib 4y ago
I hate Snap, but from what I experienced, I also don't think that the problem is related to it but some shitty logic in Firefox.
Regarding the "excuse" that it is the package manager that updated the Firefox in background, I saw it repeated a lot of time to deflect the blame, but it is totally not true in my opinion. On my system, I don't allow automatic updates. I have the notification when updates are available, but the system/packages are never updated without me doing it. And still, I noticed multiple times that Firefox breaks suddenly, like that, when nothing was updated on my system for some weeks and everything was working fine.
- Izkata 4y agoUbuntu has an additional system called unattended-upgrades that does security updates in the background without any user interaction. At least in Ubuntu 18.04, pre-snap Firefox is included in it.
- greatgib 4y agoIt is clearly not. On these occasions I have also checked the logs (apt,...) to be sure that nothing was updated in a very long time.
- Izkata 4y agoIt wouldn't be in apt's log, it would be in the unattended-upgrades log. And I can say that when I removed Firefox from its config, it stopped happening to me.
- TillE 4y agoI have never seen anyone mention this issue on macOS or Windows. It's definitely a Linux package manager thing, not part of Firefox's own update process.
- bmicraft 4y agoI can't comment on Ubuntu, maybe they do automatic upgrades in the background and you don't know about them. For me on arch Firefox has shown the "Need to restart" page every time I have updated it's package while running and not a single other time.