It does happen, but it's pretty rare compared to Windows in my experience, where inconvenience is essentially guaranteed. Firefox on Linux did not really enjoy

It does happen, but it's pretty rare compared to Windows in my experience, where inconvenience is essentially guaranteed. Firefox on Linux did not really enjoy being updated while running, as far as I remember; Chrome was fine with it, but only since it does some extra work to bypass the problem via its "zygote process": https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/linux/zygote.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...